[hef19898]

Ultimately, a worker sitting on top of a truck to hold down a load, is a failure of the company: rules and trainings have to be implace to avoid this unsafe behavior, managers, and ultimately the CEO, has to enforce those rules. If that doesn't happen an unsafe culture is promoted, one that leads to accidents.

[infecto]

Right, but this piece did not focus on the data and instead of pulled specific examples out. I think it would have been more convincing to at least speak more on the numbers, compare it to the US averages and look at different industries within the US. If I take the BLS average of missed days and other, 2.7 is higher then what I think is the 2.2 average that spacex has across different sites. I am not saying that means SpaceX is a safe place to work but we should dive into those details more to get a better picture.

Worker deaths will always exist, sometimes due to unsafe practices and sometimes the fault of the worker. Every 101minutes a worker dies in the US. This is why OSHA exists.

[scarab92]

Journalists do seem to be given an extraordinarily wide allowance for selection bias.

Most negative stories about SpaceX / Tesla / Twitter could have been written about any of their competitors in the just by changing a few details.

[hef19898]

Not when it comes to workplace saftey or going to war over some collective bargaining in Sweden, then not.

And Twitter, well, there are hardly any comparisons, are there?

[pauldenton]

Is SpaceX charging the DoD 435$ for a Hammer, or 600$ for a toilet seat? General Dynamics did

[butler14]

How do you train someone not to do stupid sh*t like that?

What’s saying that employee didn’t go through H&S training?

I get the legalities, it’s just a fringe case to the extreme, and conflation of that case to imply some wider problem.

Reads like a hit piece.

[dkjaudyeqooe]

Some companies have a strong safety culture. The importance of safety is prioritised. For instance, they are allowed and required to stop work being performed if they see a safety violation [1].

If you take safety seriously you're likely to have a safe workplace. If not you get these sorts of shenanigans.

[1] https://millercares.com/how-stop-work-authority-helps-preven...

[solarkraft]

You have to ensure that they don't do that. This can be through strict controls, peers and firing people you deem to do too much unsafe stuff.

[davemp]

> How do you train someone not to do stupid sh*t like that?

There needs good safety culture. If all your peers will give you an earful if they catch you doing something so visibly dangerous, you'll be less inclined to be a cowboy. Culture usually comes from the top down.