Last July, as reported in this blog, three workers were killed and three more injured when a rocket engine exploded during testing. Scaled Composites, the company that built the first privately funded and operated manned craft to reach space, was building the engine for its SpaceShipTwo, a craft designed to carry paying customers on suborbital flights.
California safety inspectors who investigated the incident have now cited Scaled Composites for failing to properly train its employees, and failing to inform its employees of the hazards of using nitrous oxide-- a component of the rocket fuel being used.
Scaled Composites released a statement saying the company has cooperated fully in the state's investigation, and will continue to do so.
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