> But I'm sure the most major contribution to the numbers (besides people actually reporting their injuries) is a result of people working then anything else.
It's a rate per person, so no.
There's an implicit "working on rockets" in the OP's comment. ULA did 4 launches in 2024 with 2700 employees. SpaceX did 138 launches in 2024 with less than 5 times as many employees. (They had 13,000 in 2023. It's grown a lot since then, but hasn't doubled, I don't think).
ULA employees spend a lot higher percentage of their time on paperwork than SpaceX employees do. The injury rate while doing paperwork should be essentially zero.
SpaceX does 5-10 times as many launches per employee, and has an injury rate 6 times as high per employee. So the injury rate per rocket launch is comparable.
> Among the more baffling details in the report are several sections about how Elon Musk’s personal tastes appear to have affected the factory’s safety for the worse, “his preferences … were well known and led to cutting back on those standard safety signals.” Musk, apparently, really hates the color yellow. So instead of using the aforementioned hue, lane lines on the factory floor are painted in shades of gray. (Tesla denies this and sent Reveal photos of “rails and posts” painted yellow in the factory.) He also is not into having “too many signs” or the beeping sound forklifts make in reverse.
Rate per person does not counter neuroelectrons hypothesis.
If you have 100 people standing around for a year, they probably have lower injuries than the same 100 people who are using heavy machinery over the course of a year. And it's not like most corporations are efficient.
SpaceX may have less redundancy in their workforce causing the injury rate to go up since more people are working more often.
Or SpaceX is overworking people in unsafe conditions and causing way more injuries.
Either way, rate per person does not negate people working vs. Not.
