Elon Musk's SpaceX has reported injury rates that surpass the industry average for the second consecutive year. This could potentially raise concerns for the company's clients, including NASA.

TechCrunch reviewed data released by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, finding that Starbase injury rates in ...

SpaceX reported increased employee injury rates at its locations in Cape Canaveral, Florida; Brownsville, Texas; and Redmond, Washington. The largest rise was detected at Cape Canaveral, where the ...

SpaceX employees working at its Starbase facility in Texas face significantly higher injury risks than those at the company's ...

The 2022 injury rate at the company’s manufacturing-and-launch facility near Brownsville, Texas, was 4.8 injuries or illnesses per 100 workers – six times higher than the space-industry ...

SpaceX has been moving at a breakneck pace, and rapid progress comes at a cost. Worker injury rates at its Starbase facility ...

A Reuters investigation late last year found more than 600 previously unreported injuries at SpaceX facilities since 2014. The average injury rates at its three sites far outpaced those across the ...

The facility with the highest injury rate in 2023 was SpaceX’s Rocket Recovery unit on the West Coast, which reported 7.6 injuries per 100 workers. Next up was SpaceX’s Brownsville, ...

High-profile clients including NASA may be concerned with SpaceX’s exceptional injury rates. In 2022, SpaceX became the agency’s second-largest vendor after NASA set aside more than $2 billion ...

At its manufacturing-and-launch facility in Brownsville, Texas, for instance, SpaceX reported 5.9 injuries per 100 workers, surpassing its rate of 4.8 injuries in 2022 and topping a space industry ...

Injury rates at SpaceX facilities continued to exceed an industry average in 2023, according to a Reuters review of safety data reported to U.S. regulators by the space venture controlled by ...