Opposing Digits

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Over the past three months, workers at the
Kennedy Space Center have tripped, dropped things, banged into sensitive equipment and started fires in a baffling string of accidents that have left one person dead.

NASA is investigating three of the accidents — the death of a worker who fell off a roof, the bumping of space shuttle Discovery's robotic arm by a platform, and damage last week to an instrument that supplies power to the orbiters.

But since the beginning of the year, there have been 20 other incidents in which a worker was injured or equipment was damaged in excess of $25,000. There were 14 incidents during the same period last year.

"There's enough going on that we're very, very concerned," said Bill Parsons, deputy director of the Kennedy Space Center.

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