Products: Industrial arm. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 0.0/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 95th percentile of 122 machinery oem companies.
Kawasaki Robotics' record holds one entry: the July 1981 death of Kenji Urada, killed by a Kawasaki-built robot at the Akashi plant, rated severity 5 and identified in the record as a landmark case in industrial robot fatalities. This is a single historical event with no accompanying regulatory or recall entry in the data provided. The index of 0 and percentile of 95 place Kawasaki at the very low end of the machinery-OEM category by index value despite the entry's maximum severity, reflecting the record's age and singularity rather than any mitigating circumstance. No pattern exists beyond this one entry, which predates the rest of the register by decades.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5 | 07/04 1981 |
fatality | Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant, A… | Kenji Urada killed by Kawasaki-built robot at Akashi plant (landmark robot fatality) · 1 fatality | Wikipedia |