RobotRisk Autonomous Systems Incident & Risk Register
RobotRisk / warehouse automation / Dearborn Mid-West

Dearborn Mid-West

Products: conveyor, integrator. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 25.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 99th percentile of 273 warehouse automation companies.

Analyst brief

The record consists of a single fatality event: a worker crushed by a conveyor system at a Jeep plant, cited for lack of pinch-point guarding. Severity is at the top of the scale (5), and the failure mode is unguarded mechanical hazard, a recognized exposure category in warehouse-automation material-handling systems. The index of 25.6 places the entity at the 99.3rd percentile of the warehouse-automation category, the top of its distribution on the basis of one incident. The record is a single occupational-fatality event rather than a recurring pattern, and no trajectory can be inferred from one row.

Entries by year and severity

012024 S5: 1124
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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S508/2024 fatality Jeep plant worker crushed to death by conveyor system lacking pinch-point guarding · 1 worker Detroit News

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