Workers building concrete walls at the spacex starbase site in November were treated with massive support from cranes, and the Health and Labor Administration at work, techCranch has learned.
The worker, Eduardo Cavazos, filed a previous lawsuit that was not limited in November in November, and they are suing the space and one of the contractors to ignore it. SpaceX reported the incident to OSHA, and the agency opened a “prompt response investigation,” according to Joanna Hawkins, Regional Deputy Director of Public Affairs.
A prompt accurate investigation usually involves OSHA asking the employer for more information before determining whether the agency will conduct an on-site inspection. Hawkins said OSHA is still awaiting Spacex’s response to the request.
This is the second crane-related accident at StarBase this year to which OSHA has applied. The agency also opened an investigation into a The crane that collapsed on the Starbase in late JuneSee rank-. It is still unknown if any workers were injured in the accident; none of the spacex or city officials owning the Starbase have it comment on the collapsewhich was caught on live-streamed video by Labpadre.
The crane-related accident is part of a rapidly growing list of incidents in Texas.
Hip, knee, and tibia
Attorneys for Cavazos, a resident of Cameron County, Texas, filed Lawsuit Claims In November just a few days after the accident. He said he worked as a subcontractor for the CCC group, which was hired by Spacex to build a concrete wall at the Starbase site. On November 15, the crane operator lifted the “vertical work form” – which has wet concrete on the board until it was wet “removed” and registered “cavazos lawyers who claimed in the lawsuit.
The metal support hit the cavazos’ HIP, knee, and tibia, and he sustained injuries to his neck, head, shoulders, back, and legs. “In all reasonable probability, (or will) undergo physical therapy, medication, treatment, and/or daily interventions, and/or interventions that overcome the incident,” the lawyer wrote in the complaint.
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Cavazos is suing the CCC group and spacex for negligence and seeking unspecified damages. They claim that the company should be responsible for not verifying that metal supports are installed correctly, and failing to warn workers of this type on this site, among other safety violations.
Representatives for the CCC group and Spacex did not respond to requests for comment. Cavazos’ attorney declined to comment beyond the content of the complaint.
Starbase security record
Workers have suffered serious injuries at Starbase Spacex facilities for years. In 2023, Reuters reports on the safety of Starbase not found Many previous injuries were not considered, as was the fact that an employee died at the South Texas site in 2014 when construction began.
Publicly available data shows the site remains dangerous compared to other spacex facilities and those run by its competitors.
A Techcrunch analysis From last July’s OSHA data, Starbase had approximately 1,000 recordable incidents (TRIRs). The target for Aerospace Manufacturing as a whole in 2024 is 1.5 injuries per 100 workers.
Former OSHA Chief of Staff Debbie Berkowitz told Techcrunch that Starbase “is a serious red flag that needs to be addressed.”
Transparency in Starbase is difficult, too. Companies are supposed to report serious injuries to OSHA within 24 hours if they involve hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye. When spacex appears, in the case of Cavazos, OSHA Fined Spacex $7,000 in early June for not reporting a different injury at Starbase that was one of those categories. Spacex breaks the penalty and both sides are done.
Spacex has been building a starbase for more than a decade, but the company has big plans to expand the facility in the coming years. It is currently building a $250 million, 700,000,000-square-foot rocket factory called “Gigabay” that hopes to be completed by the end of 2026. The company have said It can be used to make as many as 1,000 star rockets per year.
The pressure is only on Spacex, too. Follow NASA Administrator Sean Duffy Chasht Company for not moving fast enough to return astronauts to the moon, Next Musk called the lunar mission “disruptive” from Mars. Duffy proposed that NASA could use a rocket from Jeff Bezos’ company Blue Origin Space to land a person in the month before China, which hopes to try to test the Feature in 2029.