A construction worker building a concrete wall at Spacex’s Starbase Site Site in November was crushed by a large metal support that fell from a crane and the work management and investigation of the incident, techcrunch learned.

The worker, Eduardo Cavazos, previously filed an unknown lawsuit in November of November, and is suffering from spacex and one of the countersacrifices for negligence. Spacex reported the incident to Osha, and the agency opened a “rapid response review,” according to Joanna Hawkins, Deputy Regional Director of public affairs.

A rapid response review usually involves OSHA asking an owner for additional information before determining whether the agency will conduct an on-site inspection. Hawkins said Osha is still waiting for Spacex’s response to that request.

This is the second known crane-related accident at Starbase this year that Osha has investigated. The agency also opened an investigation into a Crane that collapsed on the Starbase in late June. It is not yet known if any workers were injured during the accident; neither spacex nor city officials commented on the collapsewhich was caught on live video by Labpadre.

The crane-related accidents are part of a growing list of incidents at the rapidly expanding South Texas facility that will develop more rockets to reach the moon and Mars.

A broken hip, knee, and tibia

Attorneys for Cavazos, a resident of Cameron County, Texas, filed his DEMANDS It was November just a few days after the accident. They said he worked as a subcontractor for CCC Group, which was hired by Spacex to build concrete walls at the starbase site. On November 15, a crane operator lifted a “vertical formwork” – which holds the wet concrete in place until a long metal supporting “metal lawyers claimed, metal lawyers claimed.

In one amended petition Filed this week, CAVAZAZOS lawyers claim an employee of Group CCC was operating the crane and was seen using a cell phone at the time of the accident. The operator “continuously lowered” the formwork, causing it to hit the ground and surprise the cavazos and two other workers. The operator then suddenly lifted the shape of the form, according to the complaint, which is when the 1,200-pound support of CAVAZOS.

The metal support that broke the knee, metal knee cavazos, and he suffered other injuries to the neck, head, shoulders, back, and feet. “In all reasonable possibilities, (CAVAZOS) has and / or will undergo physical treatment, daily treatment, to stop suffering from these injuries sustained in this incident,” his lawyers wrote in the complaint.

CAVAZOS sued the CCC group and spacex for negligence and sought unspecified damages. He claimed the two companies should be responsible for not verifying the metal support properly, and failing to have the right workers in this type of area, among other alleged safety violations.

Representatives for CCC Group and Spacex did not respond to requests for comment. Attorneys for the CAVAZOs declined to comment beyond the scope of the complaint.

Starbase Survival Record

Workers have suffered severe damage to the spacebase’s starbase facility for years. In 2023, the routers report on the safety of the starbase Not Restored Many have previously been injured, as well as the fact that an employee died at the South Texas Site in 2014 when construction began.

Publicly available data show the site remains dangerous compared to other spacex facilities and those operated by its rivals.

art ANALYSIS OF TECCCRUST OSHA’S DATA ENDED THE PICTURE THAT HAPPENED STROBBASE There is a total schedule incident rate (Trirs Spacex in 2024. The TRIR for aerospace manufacturing throughout 2024 is 1.6 injuries per 100 workers.

Former OSHA chief Debbie Berkowitz told techcrunch at the time that the starbase trip was a serious safety issue that needed to be addressed. “

Starbase transparency is also difficult. Companies must report serious injuries to Osha within 24 hours if they involve hospitalizations, amputations, or the loss of an eye. While it appears that spacex is the one in the case of Cavazos, Osha fined spacex $ 7,000 in early June for not reporting a different category of damage. Spacex fought the penalty and the two sides reached an undisclosed settlement.

Spacex has been building the 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-square-foot rocket factory called “Guided” that it expects by the end of 2026. The company WHAT It can be used to make as many as 1,000 Starship rockets per year.

Just pressure mounts the spacex, too. Acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy recently criticized the company for not moving quickly enough to return astronauts to the moon, after Musk called Lunar Missions “a distraction” from Mars. Duffy suggested that NASA may choose to use rockets from Jeff Bezos’ Space’ Space ‘Space’ that humans have launched before 1929.

This story has been updated with new information from Cavazos’ petition amendment.