SpaceX Is Facing a Negligence Lawsuit Over Accident That Led to Worker’s Coma

In brief: Elon Musk’s SpaceX is being sued by the wife of a company technician whose skull was fractured during a rocket engine malfunction in 2022. More than two years after the incident, Francisco Cabada remains in a coma.

Cabada was performing pressure testing checks on the Raptor V2 engine at SpaceX’s Hawthorne, California site on January 18, 2022, when a fuel-controller assembly cover broke off. The part struck Cabada on the head, fracturing his skull.

An accident investigation summary from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) confirms that during the incident, the final step in the pressure check operation, venting, was done for the first time using an automated program as opposed to the normal manual method that had been used in previous operations.

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