Crane collapsed at the Rocket facility of South Texas of Spacex this week, and the newly formed city of the company will not say if someone was injured.
On June 23, a crane used to clean up waste from the most recent SpaceX Rocket -blast collapsed at the company’s launch complex. Pictures of the accident were Caught by lab padreOne of the content creators who film and photograph the site regularly. But it was filmed from afar, enabling whether anyone was damaged or in danger.
SpaceX did not publicly acknowledge the collapse, and did not respond to Techcrunch’s request for comment. That is not surprising; As the company post details of spaceflowing misdeeds, such as when its starships explode, it is otherwise tight.
But the SpaceX facility is now part of a newly incorporated city called Starbase, Texas, and this accident occurred within its boundaries. And after one of the starship rockets Blew on a test stand Last week, Starbase -Officials made a brief post about X about it.
However, there was no poster about the crane collapse, and the city ignored direct calls for information. Techcrunch contacted the main email address of Starbase, its mayor, its two commissioners, its city administrator and its clerk this week. No one answered numerous requests for the accident information.
The collapse is one of the first attempts at whether Starbase City has an appetite (and will) for transparency while managing SpaceX executive, and acting as a home for the company and more than 200 of its employees. Starbase is also financially regarded by Elon Musk’s space fluent company: just this week, the city finished Loan of $ 1.5 million from SpaceX to fund the city’s operations through September 2025.
The idea of making a city called Starbase was first floated by Musk in 2021. But it was not until May of this year that it has formally become a city. Its citizens – mostly SpaceX employees – voted overwhelmingly to incorporate. SpaceX’s vice president of “Texas Test and Launch”, Bobby Peden, became mayor. The company’s senior director of environmental, healthy, and security Jordan Buss has become a commissioner. The other commissioner, Jenna Petrzelka, worked at SpaceX for years.
These officials have been involved in forming the new city in recent weeks. The city sent a Notice At the end of May to residents in a newly proposed “mixed usage” that they “may lose the right to continue using” their property. The city too started setting gates at SpaceX’s request This limits access to the city, citing security concerns. Buss said in a meeting that Starbase will give access to outsiders “if needed to be in the city” and deliver “access codes” to ambulances, firefighters and laws, according to Valley Central.
It is unclear whether these types of emergency services were needed on Tuesday when the crane collapsed. The Cameron County sheriff’s department told Techcrunch that it did not receive calls from Starbase around the time of the accident. Local firefighters from the nearby town of Brownsville and Cameron County did not respond to requests for comment.
All we know about the collapse – besides seeing it happens – is that the health safety and health health (OSHA) opened an investigationAccording to CNBC.
SpaceX has a troubled History of working safety. But OSHA polls take time, and the agency has diminished by court From the Musk project. Musk’s companies also do not have very constructive relationships with OSHA. In 2019, Tesla refused to let OSHA inspectors enter its factory in NevadaEven when those inspectors returned with a sheriff’s deputy and an order signed by the judge.
