Spacex employees are more likely to be injured while working at the starks of the manufacturers facilities, according to the security records of the company examined by techcrunch.
Starbase, the Open site and the unsatisfactory manufacturers are themselves, the higher rates than the highest and almost 300 production, according to the data of aerospace (OSHA). The extraordinary injury levels are still from 2019, while the spacex began to show the Starbase injury data with a Federal Regulator.
Starbase is the most ambitious space of space: a rocket that can be used again, can be used again, rockets lifted up and forth, ultra-heavy startship. The company is moving at the breakneck pace to bring an online star to start the StarLink Internet and pay satellite.
Since The first orbital test of starship On April 2023, Spacex has tried eight integrated. During the three tests, The company makes history By holding a large super booster that is too much with the arm “chopstick” attached to the launch tower.
The data indicates that the Rapaja Spacex’s progress is expensive. And when the injury rate just does not give a complete picture about the safety culture at StarBase, he offers a rare sexy to the situation around the world.
Throws the Starbase number
OSHA Using the standard safety metric called: Clare) to measuring the company’s safety record and compare with the company’s safety friends and compare them with blue friends, like blue home. Public data available has limits. Not distinguish between small injuries like a stitch can occur as influence.
TechCrunch scored based on the data, which includes the amount in the event and the number of hours works with Spacex employees on each site.
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Starbase, who has a major role in Miss Musk SpaceX to create multi-plillet live, as a larger company in the company and all the industry. The top of the above 4.27 injured each 100 workers in 2024, while working on average 2,690 workers, according to data sent to OSHA. The injured starborn artist cannot perform a normal job task for the amount of 3,558 days being dropped, plus 656 days lost where the injury is made to work.
StarBase is classified by the US government is the operating of space vehicle. The level of injury in this sector has dramatically Since 1994drop from 4.2 injuries every 100 workers 0.7 Injuries every 100 workers in 2023According to the History data from the Bureau of labor stats. (BLS counts the rates through the annual company surveys, which is the same information found in the process of worker OSHA.) However, the main change in the industry, Starbase is closer to the past 30 years rates.
The level of injury at all the Boacex Manufacturing facilities – which include the development of machines and test sites in McGregor, Texas; Starlink Satelicit Manufacturing Complex in Bastrop, Texas; Falcon rocket complex in Hawthorne, California; And Satellite Manufacturing Site in Redmond, Washington – is 2.28.
This is another facility reporting the lower Trir rate, even if it is usually exceeding the average. For example, 2024 data shows 2.48 trig rates on McGogregor, 3.49 in Bastrop, 1,43 in Hawthorne, 2.89 on Redmond sites. Arrive 2024 for aerospace manufacturers as 1.6.
Spacex also operates several sites that no manufacturers, including the operation barge in both beaches, offices in California, California, California, and launching sites in Cape Canaverver and Vandenberg space space.
The former Chief of Staam Osha Debbie Bercowitz tells us an email that trir starbase “is a red flag that needs to be handled serious.”
However, there are debate between safety professionals about what the most reliable metric complain and predict the injury rate, because it happens especially for a small company. New paper The tricks asked statistical validity and advised the organization using an alternative step-by-step than the safety.
From the 14 OSHA examination at the spacex facility in the past four years, six involved accidents and injury at Starbase. That includes partial finger settlement in 2021 and collapse cranes in 2025. The last inspection is still on. Investigated by other news stores Including Reuters It has been unable to be found by hundreds of employee injury before, including the frame-based section and one fatal.
The level of 2024 injury at the StarBase marked the previous year, the biggest at 100 workers in 2022.
OSHA technology confirmed Trir Starbase Trir’s via email, but nothing else does not respond to the question of the location of the location. Spacex does not respond to a request for a comment.
Stake’s stake
NASA has the main stake in the Starship’s development. The agency counted using a rocket to produce humans to the moon before this last decade, and that Pay more than $ 4 billion For a spacex for the roughlight of the two two in the lunar.
Both contracts for LANDER STARSHIP And a spacex contract for a commercial crew service to a particular setting of clause that allows agency to take action for OSHA or “repeat” offense or “Repeat”.
When a continuous study rate can be proof of safety issues, not an automated trigger for action, and not fall under the definition of “safety main violation” in contract.
“NASA interacting with often with partners, including spacex, to ensure the safety of the state of bond, and still relating to the question of the company trir.” Safety is a achievement for NASA mission. Agency continues to work with all commercial partners to build and maintain a healthy safety culture. ”
Between rockets with vehicles in operation, StarBase still causes Packages: at decatur, Alabama, Ciloko, 1.12 injuries; The Garkola Park is blue on the Florida coast, the level is 1.09.