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DeLaval

Products: milking-robot. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 5.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 99th percentile of 144 agtech companies.

Analyst brief

The record contains a single 2022 entry: a $55 million class-action settlement over defective milking robots, rated severity 2, classified as a regulatory/legal action rather than a press-reported operational incident. The one entry produces an index of 5.3, placing DeLaval at the 98.6th percentile of the agtech category, though the assigned band is low. The high percentile alongside a low band and a single moderate-severity entry indicates the category as a whole logs few incidents, with this settlement standing out primarily on its financial scale rather than injury or fire severity. No other entries are present to establish a pattern.

Entries by year and severity

012022 S2: 1122
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regulatory over time vs category

Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S207/28
2022
regulatory DeLaval settles defective milking robots class action for $55M · $55M settlement Top Class Actions

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