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RobotRisk / off highway / Caterpillar

Caterpillar

Products: n/a. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 6.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 98th percentile of 53 off highway companies.

Hiring safety roles: 3 open, 0 closed - see postings on FSTalent · company profile on CSA

Analyst brief

The single recorded entry describes an autonomous haul truck reversing into an excavator at BHP's Goonyella coal mine in August 2023, coded at severity 2. This is an operational contact incident between two pieces of mining equipment rather than a recall or regulatory action. Caterpillar's index (6.4) is comparatively low in absolute terms, yet its percentile (98.1) places it near the top of the off-highway category, indicating most category peers carry lower index values still. The record is a single press-reported operational incident with no indication of a recurring or systemic pattern.

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S208/2023 crash Goonyella Riverside mine, QLD, Aus…Cat autonomous haul truck reverses into excavator at BHP's Goonyella mine · 1 autonomous truck, 1 excavator Mining Monthly

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