Hundreds of SpaceX employees have been hurt in workplace accidents, including eight incidents that led to amputations, a Reuters investigation found.

Three former SpaceX supervisors told Reuters that Musk would have machinery painted in industrial safety yellow repainted to black or blue because of he didn’t like how it looked. The ex-supervisors also said that some workers were told not to wear yellow safety vests when Musk was on site.

It says they couldn’t wear yellow safety vests, but I’m guessing, at least at first, that they didn’t have two colors of safety vest available for all employees.

And repainting machines unsafe colors because you don’t like yellow?

Just criminal assholeishness. If he wasn’t so rich, he would be charged with reckless endangerment.

  • @PrincessLeiasCat
    26•8 months ago

    In fairness to those with Autism, “self diagnosis” is much more common in that community and accepted because the official test for it can be absurdly long and expensive.

    That being said, neither one of those things should be a problem for big brain Elon.

    • Flying SquidOP
      16•8 months ago

      Yes, that is definitely true for many autistic people, but I think in Elon’s case he hides his weird and unacceptable behavior behind a self-diagnosis of autism. He might be autistic, but it’s not the excuse he thinks it is.