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by NamTaf 28 days ago
This is trivially easy to check if you actually wanted to. Hell, I'll bring the receipts on your behalf.

These numbers are all total injury frequency rates per 100 employees or 200k hours (equivalent measures, assuming 50x 40-hour weeks)

Assuming the TC article that cites 4.27 at Starbase is accurate, it's well in excess of anything I'm used to seeing. Have a flick through here for industry-wide equivalents: https://www.bls.gov/web/osh/table-1-industry-rates-national....

Alternatively, here's some of the big players in various engineering, construction, mining, etc. heavy industries, taken directly from their websites/sustainability reports:

ExxonMobil: 0.1-0.2 https://corporate.exxonmobil.com/publications/metrics-and-da...

Chevron: 0.24 (p23) https://www.chevron.com/newsroom/media/publications/corporat...

Glencore: 2.14 (p15) https://www.glencore.com/.rest/api/v1/documents/static/9b103...

Jiangxi Copper: 1.5 (p132, NB: per million hours so /5) https://www1.hkexnews.hk/listedco/listconews/sehk/2025/0327/...

Fluor: 0.31 (p10) https://a.fluor.com/f/1014770/x/1d656014e2/2024-sustainabili...

Jacobs: 0.17 (p61) https://s205.q4cdn.com/384284279/files/doc_downloads/2024/ES...

Union Pacific: 0.9 (p8) https://www.up.com/content/dam/upcom/strategy-sustainability...

PG&E: 1.87 (p45) https://www.pgecorp.com/assets/pgecorp/csr/csr_2025/assets/p...

Baowu: 1.8 (p19, listed per 1000 employees so *10) https://res.baowugroup.com/attach/2025/09/18/4751f22bbb33484...

Parsons: 0.16 (p29) https://www.parsons.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/FY24-CARE...

Vale: 1.58 (p66) https://www.vale.com/documents/44618/430705/2025_Annual+Repo...