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The fact that he's telling employees to NOT wear bright safety vests because he doesn't like bright colors is reason enough for me to believe that safety culture at SpaceX is likely absolutely bare minimum or worse. The one employee died because he rode on top of unsecured foam insulation like a fucking idiot with multiple coworkers who encouraged it/didn't prevent it from happening.
Is the article making it seem worse than what's "normal" for the space manufacturing industry? I don't know, and neither do you, as the mining industry is a hugely different environment than space manufacturing. All we have to go off is the evidence provided here, and it doesn't look good.
If there's other sources people can provide to shed more insight, that'd be great to get a clearer picture of what's the normal hazard baseline here.