<Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Th> Place </Th> <Th> Dead </Th> <Th> Associated mission / vehicle </Th> <Th> Description </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1968 - 05 - 16 </Td> <Td> Kennedy Space Center, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Apollo 4 </Td> <Td> Pad worker William B. Estes, 46, was killed while hooking up an 8 - inch (20 cm) high - pressure water line to the mobile service structure on Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 A, which should not have been pressurized at the time . The cap blew off with 180 psi pressure, striking him in the chest . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1981 - 03 - 19 </Td> <Td> Kennedy Space Center, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> STS - 1 </Td> <Td> Anoxia due to nitrogen atmosphere in the aft engine compartment of Columbia during a countdown demonstration test for STS - 1 . Five workers were involved in the incident . John Bjornstad died at the scene; Forrest Cole went into a coma and died two weeks later, and Nick Mullon died 14 years later from complications of injuries sustained . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1981 - 05 - 05 </Td> <Td> Kennedy Space Center, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> STS - 2 </Td> <Td> Construction worker Anthony E. Hill, 22, fell more than 100 feet (30 m) from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 B service structure . Workers were preparing LC - 39B for a planned September 1981 launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1985 - 12 - 04 </Td> <Td> Vandenberg AFB, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Carl Reich, 49, of Lompoc, CA, an iron worker employed by Hensel Phelps Construction of Greeley, CO, fell 18 stories from the mobile service structure of the SLC - 6 Space Shuttle launch complex, while bolting a platform onto the structure . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1988 - 05 - 04 </Td> <Td> Henderson, Nevada, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> PEPCON disaster, explosion of a factory that produced ammonium perchlorate for solid - fuel rocket boosters of the Space Shuttle and other launchers . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1989 - 12 - 22 </Td> <Td> Cape Canaveral, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> A worker refurbishing the 11th level of the Cape Canaveral, Atlas Launch Complex 36B launch tower, was killed when an air hose he was using was caught by the pad elevator . The hose wrapped around the worker and pulled him into the elevator shaft, crushing him . The pad was being refurbished for commercial satellite launches by General Dynamics starting in 1990 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1995 - 05 - 05 </Td> <Td> Guiana Space Centre, French Guiana </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Ariane 5 </Td> <Td> Two technicians died from Anoxia due to major nitrogen leak in confined area of umbilical mast at Ariane 5 launch area during cryogenic M1 main stage testing . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2001 - 07 - 08 </Td> <Td> Cape Canaveral, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Worker disconnecting a coupling on a temporary pipe used to purge a liquid oxygen system near Launch Complex 37 . Unexpected buildup of pressure caused the coupling to break loose and strike the employee in the head . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2001 - 10 - 01 </Td> <Td> Cape Canaveral, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Crane operator Bill Brooks was killed in an industrial accident at Launch Complex 37 . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2002 - 05 - 12 </Td> <Td> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan </Td> <Td> 8 </Td> <Td> Space Shuttle Buran </Td> <Td> Workers repairing the roof of the Baikonur Cosmodrome N - 1 / Energia vehicle assembly building died when the roof suffered a total structural collapse and crashed 80 meters (260 ft) to the ground . Buran Shuttle was destroyed . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2004 - 02 - 24 </Td> <Td> Satish Dhawan Space Centre, India </Td> <Td> 6 </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> After curing process of an experimental solid propellant segment weighing 14.5 tonnes, during removal of bottom plate from casting assembly, propellant within segment caught fire resulting in death of four engineers and two assistants . Three workers escaped the inferno with burn injuries . Cast Cure facility building suffered extensive damage . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2010 - 05 - 05 </Td> <Td> Redstone Arsenal, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Ammonium perchlorate explosion in a solid rocket fuel test area . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2011 - 03 - 14 </Td> <Td> Launch Pad 39A, USA </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> STS - 134 </Td> <Td> A person working as a swing - arm contractor fell to his death during preparations for a Space Shuttle mission . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2013 - 11 - 09 </Td> <Td> Plesetsk, Russia </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Two workers cleaning out a propellant tank died when exposed to poisonous nitrogen tetroxide gases within the tank </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2017 - 06 - 14 </Td> <Td> Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Progress MS - 06 </Td> <Td> An ISS resupply mission, debris from the launch caused a wildfire which killed one worker employed to recover rocket debris . Another employee was injured and died a few days afterward in hospital . </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Date </Th> <Th> Place </Th> <Th> Dead </Th> <Th> Associated mission / vehicle </Th> <Th> Description </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1968 - 05 - 16 </Td> <Td> Kennedy Space Center, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> Apollo 4 </Td> <Td> Pad worker William B. Estes, 46, was killed while hooking up an 8 - inch (20 cm) high - pressure water line to the mobile service structure on Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 A, which should not have been pressurized at the time . The cap blew off with 180 psi pressure, striking him in the chest . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1981 - 03 - 19 </Td> <Td> Kennedy Space Center, US </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> STS - 1 </Td> <Td> Anoxia due to nitrogen atmosphere in the aft engine compartment of Columbia during a countdown demonstration test for STS - 1 . Five workers were involved in the incident . John Bjornstad died at the scene; Forrest Cole went into a coma and died two weeks later, and Nick Mullon died 14 years later from complications of injuries sustained . </Td> </Tr>

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