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.

CEO Elon Musk recently said SpaceX has a 50-50 chance of getting Starship ready in time for the uncrewed mission. Musk is ...

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

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 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 ...

For the second year in a row, injury rates at SpaceX far exceed the industry average. This is according to a Reuters review of 2023 safety data that the company filed to U.S. regulators, ...

Injury rates at some SpaceX facilities are much higher than the industry average of .8 injuries or illnesses per 100 workers, Reuters found. At its Brownsville, Texas location, the 2022 injury ...

SpaceX reported 5.9 injuries per 100 workers at its Brownsville site. ... The new injury rate surpasses the previous year which was 4.8 injuries, according to a Reuters report.

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 ...