© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: View of the SpaceX air streamers adjacent to SpaceX Starbase in Brownsville, Texas, U.S., August 19, 2023. REUTERS/Veronica G. Cardenas.
By Marisa Taylor and Joey Roulette
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three U.S. lawmakers are calling for greater scrutiny of worker safety at Elon Musk’s SpaceX following a Reuters investigation that documented hundreds of injuries at the rocket company’s U.S. manufacturing and launch sites.
The Nov. 10 Reuters report detailed at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries since 2014 at SpaceX including crushed limbs, amputations, head injuries and one death. The Reuters report found that injury rates at three major SpaceX industrial facilities in Texas and California far exceeded the average for the space industry.
Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House of Representatives Science, Space and Technology Committee, said the report’s findings were “deeply concerning and must be taken very seriously.”
The science panel oversees NASA’s budget and the activities of the agency’s contractors.
Democratic Representative Mark Takano of California called the report “deeply troubling.” Takano is…
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