Even sci-fi authors like Kim Stanley Robinson have included disaster scenarios when contemplating this technology, but irl nobody ever discusses the massive dangers.

Below about 43 km, vterm is below 10 m/s. This confirms what was stated in Edwards (2000b, Sec. 10.9): the ribbon will reach the ground at a very low velocity, and there will be no impact damage due to the ribbon falling. ... [pg 11] For a 20 T elevator, with a breaking point of 130 GPa, the maximum tension that can be achieved anywhere along the ribbon before it breaks is 1 MN. The Fate of a Broken Space Elevator corresponding force is 1.1 kN (about 110 kg) at 1 m of height, ten times more at 100 m of height. A building (100 m) should be undisturbed by this force, and a person (1 m) may be trapped, but should not be hurt. ... [pg 13] After an intense deceleration phase the ribbon falls slowly to the ground at less than 1 m/s

the tether only unfolded to a length of 8.5 kilometres after being released from the spacecraft orbiting around 300 kilometres above Earth ... Mission Control would try to calculate the capsule's orbit and determine when and where it would land ... the tether deployed Tuesday is half a millimetre thick and is made of Dyneema, which the ESA described as the world's strongest fibre