Products: n/a. Risk band: Elevated RobotRisk index 37.0/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 100th percentile of 213 energy storage companies.
LG Energy Solution's record spans five entries from 2019 to 2025, including one fatality (a 2025 worker death at the Holland, Michigan plant), two fires of severity 4 (the 2025 Moss Landing BESS fire and the 2019 APS McMicken explosion injuring four firefighters), a severity-3 fire tied to 2019 South Korea ESS incidents, and a 2021 recall following thermal events. Fire and thermal-event entries dominate the record, consistent with the failure mode most associated with lithium-ion energy-storage cells, and the presence of a fatality alongside multiple fire events across a six-year span indicates a sustained pattern rather than a single occurrence. The index of 36.8 sits at the 100th percentile of the energy-storage category, the highest recorded standing in that category, reflecting both the volume and severity concentration of these entries. The record mixes regulator-driven action (the 2021 recall) with press-driven incident reporting (fires, the fatality), and shows no improving trajectory across the observed years.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5 | 07/27 2025 · 17:00 |
fatality | Holland, MI, USA | Worker killed in accident at LG Energy Solution plant in Holland, Michigan | MLive |
| S4 | 01/16 2025 · 15:00 PT |
fire | Moss Landing, CA, USA | Moss Landing 300MW BESS fire (Vistra) destroys facility using LG Energy Solution cells · 300MW / tens of thousands of battery c… | Utility Dive |
| S3 | 10/2019 | fire | — | South Korea ESS fires linked predominantly to LG Chem/LG Energy Solution battery cells · 17 of 27 national ESS fire incidents | ETNews / Korea Times |
| S4 | 04/19 2019 · 20:00 MST |
fire | Surprise, AZ, USA | APS McMicken (Surprise, AZ) battery explosion injures four firefighters · 1 site, 4 firefighters injured | IEEE Spectrum |
| S3 | recall | — | LG Energy Solution recalls home/ESS batteries after thermal events, one injury · US residential ESS recall, ~$350M cost | EnergyTrend |