Starbes city officials in Spacex are silent on the collapse of the crane

A crane has collapsed in the missile facility in South Texas in Spacex this week, and the newly formed company will not say whether anyone had been injured.

On June 23, a crane used to clean the debris collapsed from the latest explosion of a SPACEX missile in the company’s launch complex. The accident shots were It was captured by Lab PadreOne of the content creators who photograph the site and photograph the site regularly. But it was photographed from afar, which makes it impossible to know if anyone has been harmed or at risk.

Spacex publicly did not recognize the collapse and did not respond to the request of Techcrunch for comment. This is not surprising; While the company publishes details about Mishaps Spaceflight, such as when its STARSHIP missiles explode, it is limited otherwise.

But the Spacex facility is now part of a newly integrated city called Starbase, Texas, and this incident occurred within its borders. After Rockits Starsp It exploded on the test platform Last week, Starbase officials I put a short post on X on this topic.

There was no publication about the collapse of the crane, and the city ignored the direct appeals of the information. TECHCRUNCH called the main Starbase for the email of the media, its mayor, its commissioners, the city’s director, and its writer this week. None of them responded to multiple requests for information about the accident.

The collapse is one of the first tests if Starbase City has an appetite (and Will) for transparency while operating by a SPACEX CEO, and works as a homeland and more than 200 of its employees. Starbase is also financially owned by Elon Musk’s Spaceflight: only this week, the city It has been completed A $ 1.5 million loan from SpaceX to finance the city’s operations until September 2025.

The idea of ​​making a city called Starbase first was Flowing by musk in 2021. But it was not until May this year that it became a city. The voice of its citizens – most of them are Spacex employees – with an overwhelming majority of their mergers. He became the vice president of “Texas Test and Launch”, a municipality. The managers of the Supreme Environment, Health and Safety Company, Jordan Boss, have become delegated. Another commissioner, Gina Peterzelka, worked in Spacex for years.

These officials have been busy forming the new city in the past few weeks. The city sent a Notice In late May for residents of the newly proposed “mixed use” area that may “lose the right to continue to use” their property. The city too It started to hold the gates at the request of Spacex This limits access to the city, indicating safety concerns. Buss said at a meeting that Starbase will give access to strangers, “If there is a need to be in the city” and to provide “arrival symbols” to ambulances, firefighters, and law enforcement, according to what I mentioned. Valley Central.

It is not clear whether these types of emergency services are needed on Tuesday when the crane collapsed. The Teccrunch Province Department told the Teccrunch that it had not received any calls from Starbase at the time of the accident. Local fire officials from the nearby city of Bronzville and Cameron County did not respond to the suspension requests.

All we know about collapse – regardless of the occurrence of this – is that OSHA) is that OSHA (OSHA) Opening the investigationAccording to CNBC.

Spacex has turbulent History of workers safety. But OSHA’s investigations take time, and the agency has decreased by discounts From the Musk’s Doge project. Musk companies also do not have very constructive relationships with OSHA. In 2019, Tesla She refused to allow OSHA to enter its factory in NevadaEven when these inspectors returned with the deputy mayor and signed the judge.