This cite poisoned the well with the title. Inferring SpaceX is plagued by safety issues because they’ve had rocket failures is intellectually disconnected.
That’s not what they’re referring to, the article links to and refers to this.
It was hardly the last serious accident at SpaceX. Since LeBlanc’s death in June 2014, which hasn’t been previously reported, Musk’s rocket company has disregarded worker-safety regulations and standard practices at its inherently dangerous rocket and satellite facilities nationwide, with workers paying a heavy price, a Reuters investigation found. Through interviews and government records, the news organization documented at least 600 injuries of SpaceX workers since 2014.
The reporting requirements are going away. No one to read them, compile them, or analyze the accidents. Thanks to DOGE.
OSHA? What OSHA? We don’ need no steenkin’ OSHA!
We went over that article in this thread about 1.5 years ago. It’s basically a load of nonsense. Even the tiny snippet you quoted contains an obvious lie–the 2014 death was reported:
SpaceX does most of their own construction at Starbase. Unlike other companies that outsource those kinds of things to Bechtel or whoever. Their injury rates should be compared to heavy industry and manufacturing, not a generic average aerospace company.
Remember Starship Flight 10 will attempt a launch Sunday, August 24, no earlier than 7:30 pm Eastern time:
Is it going to blow up again?
Should be livestreamed here:
Weather is trending to be pretty bad but they’ve proven able to squeeze into narrow windows where it clears up. So there’s a pretty good chance that it flies, though maybe not on time.
High hopes, low expectations!
(BTW, it didn’t blow up on the last flight, but it did lose attitude control in space and wasn’t able to complete the reentry)
Still ended in RUD though. I am not even going to follow this launch live; if it makes it I’ll be happy to read about it the next day. I expect no less than a controlled soft splash-down (even in damaged condition) in order to qualify it as a success. If it’s ANOTHER attitude control loss in midcourse, I’m going to stop expecting Starship in our future.
I’m glad that SpaceX has a teeny bit more tenacity than you do 
. It’s been less than a year since the last soft splashdown! Most companies wouldn’t have flown any new flights since then. Like, say, Blue Origin, which last flew in Jan and isn’t scheduled to fly until late Sept.
My reaction to various possible outcomes:
- Perfect test– No engine outs, booster returns to launch site, upper stage makes reentry on target and soft splash down, no thermal damage.
Reaction: Wonderful!! - Adequate test– A few engine outs but not mission critical. Booster performs on spec up to stage separation but has either minor glitches or else has to be destroyed by range safety. Upper stage makes it to soft landing but clearly suffered damage.
Reaction: At least we’re back on track. - Inadequate test– Upper stage fails in midcourse yet again.
Reaction: We’re now talking not when but IF Starship will ever be viable. - Utterly failed test– Complete loss of vehicle during first stage boost.
Reaction: More likely than not Starship is a delusion.
I don’t understand this exaggerated level of hand-wringing. I guess I’d recommend reading some of Eric Berger’s books on the history of SpaceX. The problems they’re experiencing now is barely gravel on the road, let alone a speed bump, compared to what they’ve gone through previously. They have essentially unlimited resources for the foreseeable future and there’s no evidence that they’re slowing down on iterating. Maybe put down the Reddit for a bit…
And it’s a scrub:
They only had a 1-hour window, which likely isn’t enough time to troubleshoot the issue. Hopefully they can try again tomorrow.
Apparently somebody was hanging out the passenger side of his best friend’s ride
Trying to holla at them.
If Flight 10 isn’t a total success, I guess SpaceX had just better pack it in. Now, where to put the seven Starships under construction that they don’t need anymore…?
I got that reference!
Glad that someone did . Still wondering how they pulled that off! It must be a periscope of some kind, but whatever is protecting it must still have something special about it. Active cooling, maybe.
There was a video for Flight 9 as well, and they fixed some of the jiggling:
About an hour and 20 minutes to go to Flight 10.
T-7 minutes. Weather looks 
. But everything else looks good.
And a scrub. Pesky weather.
SpaceX: We’re gonna launch a thousand Starships a year!
Also SpaceX: We’re cancelling because that cloud looks funny.
They haven’t installed the SCE->AUX switch yet. They’ll get to it.