Marjorie Taylor Greene Says 'New IRS Force' Takes Aim at Small Businesses (August 2022)
www.newsweek.com

... On Friday, Greene tweeted, "87,000 IRS agents will be hired with $80 billion taxpayer dollars when the Senate Reconciliation bill passes this weekend. And they're buying more guns & ammo too. Lower to middle income Americans & small businesses will be the primary targets of Democrat's new IRS force." ...

At SpaceX, worker injuries soar in Elon Musk's rush to Mars (2023)
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... One windy night at Elon Musk's SpaceX facility in McGregor, Texas, Lonnie LeBlanc and his co-workers realized they had a problem.

They needed to transport foam insulation to the rocket company's main hangar but had no straps to secure the cargo. LeBlanc, a relatively new employee, offered a solution to hold down the load: He sat on it.

After the truck drove away, a gust blew LeBlanc and the insulation off the trailer, slamming him headfirst into the pavement. LeBlanc, 38, had retired nine months earlier from the U.S. Marine Corps. He was pronounced dead from head trauma at the scene.

Lonnie LeBlanc died after a wind gust blew him off a truck that was moving insulation at SpaceX's McGregor, Texas, facility. U.S. regulators cited the company for "serious" safety lapses contributing to the accident. This photo, posted with his obituary, was provided by the family to a funeral home and a local newspaper.

Federal inspectors with the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) later determined that SpaceX had failed to protect LeBlanc from a clear hazard, noting the gravity and severity of the violation. LeBlanc's co-workers told OSHA that SpaceX had no convenient access to tie-downs and no process or oversight for handling such loads. SpaceX acknowledged the problems, and the agency instructed the company to make seven specific safety improvements, including more training and equipment, according to the inspection report. ...