Elon Musk’s SpaceX is facing a negligence lawsuit brought by the wife of a worker whose skull was fractured during a 2022 rocket engine malfunction.
His wife, Ydy Cabada, filed the lawsuit in a state court in Los Angeles, California, last week on behalf of her husband, who remains in a coma more than two years later.
I feel like if NASA had done something like this 2 years ago, it would have made headlines, there would have been an investigation, safety measures would have been implemented, and we would all be better off.
I also don’t think that NASA would have done something like this, considering:
The Jan. 18, 2022, engine malfunction involving Francisco Cabada was among the worker injuries detailed in a Reuters investigation of SpaceX late last year. Reuters documented at least 600 previously unreported workplace injuries at Musk’s rocket company: crushed limbs, amputations, electrocutions, head and eye injuries and one death.
SpaceX may be sexy and appealing to some given Elon’s showboating and the cheaper price tag, but that’s just in terms of dollars. In reality, the price is much higher.