The crane collapsed at Spacek’s South Texas rocket building this week, and the newly formed city of the company will not say whether someone is injured.
23. June, a crane used for waste cleaning from the latest Spacek of a rocket explosion that collapsed into a moving complex company. The footage of the accident was Trapped by the Padre LaboratoryOne of the creators of the content that records and photograph a location regularly. But it was recorded from a distant, which is impossible to tell if someone is injured or in danger.
Spacex did not admit collapse publicly and did not respond to the Techcrunch request for a comment. It’s not surprising; While companies are set in detail about SpaceFlight Mishaps, like when the rockets with the stars are exploded, otherwise it is narrow.
But Spaceks’s facility is now part of the newly counted city called Starbase, Texas and this accident happened in its borders. And after one of the rocket Starship blow up on the test stand Last week, Starbase officials made a short post on x about.
However, there was no mail about crashing cranes, and the city ignored direct complaints for information. Techcrunch contacted the main Email address of Starbase, her mayor, her two Commissioners, his city of administrator and his official this week. None responded to more requests for accident information.
The collapse is one of the first tests whether the city of Starbase has an appetite (and will) for transparency, while the Spacex CEO is conducted and acts as a home for the company and more than 200 of its employees. Starbase is also financially speaking in the space entire company Elona Musk: only this week, city finalized Loan of 1.5 million dollars from Spareks to finance the business of the city by September 2025.
The idea that the city called Starbase was the first Float from musk 2021. Years. But it was not until May this year that it was formally a city. Its citizens – mostly employed in Spaceks – voted over to get involved. Spacek’s vice president “Texas test and launched”, Bobby Peden, became the mayor. The elderly director of the company, health and security, Jordan, became a commissioner. Another Commissioner, Jenna Petrzelka, was working in Space in years.
These officials have taken a new city shaping in the last few weeks. The city sent a notice At the end of May the residents in a newly proposed mixed use district “that I can” lose the right to continue using “their property. The city also Raising gates on Spacex’s request has begun which restrict access to the city, referring to safety concerns. The buses told the meeting that Starbase would approve access to outsiders “if there is a need to be in the city” and provide “access codes” in ambulances, firefighters and law enforcement, according to Central Valley.
It is not clear that these types of emergency services are required Tuesday when the crane collapsed. The Sheriff’s Department of Cameron County told Techcrunchundu that he did not receive any calls from Starbace at the time of the accident. Local fire officials from the nearby town of Brownsville and the Cameron County did not respond to the comment requests.
All we know about collapse – aside to see it – is that it is that professional protection and health administration (OSHA) is opened an investigationAccording to CNBC.
Spacex is upset History of workers’ safety. But the investigation of OSHA occupies the time, and the agency has been reduced by reducing From the Musk’s Doge project. The men’s company also do not have very constructive relations with OSHA. 2019 year, Tesla refused to let OSHA inspectors enter their factory in NevadaEven when these inspectors returned with Sheriff’s Deputy and the order signed a judge.
