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17 cases in Robot arm
- 2026-05-08A 22-year-old trainee engineer, Ramanjaneyulu, was fatally injured after being caught in a robotic arm at NPH Industries, a Kia ancillary unit in Penukonda, Andhra Pradesh.Report
- 2026-02-05Robot glitch at Honda factory caused vehicles to be assembled with loose driver's seats, leading to a recallReport
- 2025-05-26An employee of N&C Enterprises Ltd. in Kilmeague was struck and killed by a rotating robotic arm after entering a restricted area through a retrofitted gate that bypassed the plant's safety protections.Report
- 2024-03-27A factory worker was pinned to a bench and crushed to death by a robot at the Vandapac factory in Chonburi, Thailand.Report
- 2023-11-07A robotics company employee in his 40s was crushed to death by a robotic arm at a pepper sorting plant in South Gyeongsang province, South Korea, after the arm confused him for a box of vegetables and pushed him against a conveyor belt.Follow-up
- 2022-09-01J.T. Beckham, a man in his 20s, was killed when he was pinned by a welding robot at the Unipres USA manufacturing plant in Forest, Mississippi.Report
- 2022-07-21Chess robot grabbed and broke the finger of a seven-year-old child during a matchReport
- 2021-01-01A Tesla software engineer was attacked by a robot at Tesla's Giga Texas factory in Austin when a third robot that had not been disabled pinned him and sank its metal claws into his back and arm, causing lacerations.Follow-up
- 2019-03-22A newlywed employee at a Co Armagh firm was killed by a falling robot, resulting in the company being fined £50,000.Report
- 2018-12-13A 49-year-old factory worker in China was impaled by ten steel spikes when a robot malfunctioned and collapsed onto him, injuring his arm and chest; surgeons removed all spikes and he was left in stable condition.Report
- 2017-04-14A 48-year-old engineer at Deco-Pak in Hipperholme was fatally crushed by a robotic arm while cleaning a sensor inside the machine's cell, dying from crush injuries to his chest.Report
- 2016-06-18A 20-year-old worker was killed when a robot at the Ajin USA plant in Cusseta, Alabama restarted abruptly while she was inside a robotic station clearing a sensor fault on a stopped assembly line.Criminal charge
- 2015-08-14A robot arm killed a co-worker at a car factory in India.Follow-up
- 2015-07-07A worker at Ventra Ionia Main was trapped by robotic machinery and pronounced dead at the scene in Ionia, Michigan.Lawsuit
- 2015-06-29A technician was killed at a Volkswagen assembly plant in Germany after a robot he was assembling picked him up and pushed him into a metal plate.Follow-up
- 2013-12-04A worker was crushed to death under a robotic arm.Report
- 1979-01-25A 25-year-old Ford assembly line worker was killed instantly when a robot arm struck him in the head while he was gathering parts in a storage facility at a Ford casting plant in Flat Rock, Michigan.Report