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EnerSys

Products: n/a. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 7.0/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 97th percentile of 213 energy storage companies.

Analyst brief

EnerSys's record contains a single incident: a September 2019 fire at its motive-power battery manufacturing plant in Richmond, Kentucky, severity 3. This is a press-reported facility fire, not a regulatory finding or a product-field failure, and the record shows no repeat occurrences. The index of 7.1 places EnerSys at the 97.2 percentile within energy-storage, the same standing as Samsung SDI, indicating low relative risk within the category despite the fire event. The record reflects a single manufacturing-site event rather than a systemic pattern.

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012019 S3: 1119
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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S309/19
2019 · ~01:45 ET
fire Richmond, KY, USAFire at EnerSys Richmond, Kentucky motive-power battery plant · 1 manufacturing facility, ~$46.1M insu… EnerSys SEC 8-K filing

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