A SpaceX employee was hospitalized for a fractured skull and put in a coma for two months after performing a check on a rocket engine and getting hit in the head at the company's facility in Hawthorne, California, according to a report.
On Jan. 18, an integration technician was "performing pneumatic pressure checks on a Raptor V2 Engine," according to a report from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The final step was "done for the first time using an automated program as opposed to the normal manual method that had been used in previous operations," the report said.
A Raptor engine is a rocket engine used in the SpaceX Starship, a launch vehicle currently being developed by SpaceX.
