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Monarch Tractor

Products: Tractor. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 9.0/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 99th percentile of 144 agtech companies.

Analyst brief

Monarch Tractor's record holds a single entry: a September 2025 dealer lawsuit alleging electric tractors could not operate in autonomous mode, classed as a malfunction at severity 2. The index of 9.1 is low in absolute terms, but the 99.3rd percentile places Monarch at the top of the agtech category, reflecting that most agtech entities in this register have little to no recorded activity at all. The record is a single commercial/legal dispute rather than a regulatory or safety-agency action, with no injury, fatality, or recall entries present. No pattern or trajectory can be inferred from one row.

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012025 S2: 1125
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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S209/2025 malfunction Burks Tractor dealership, ID, USAIdaho dealer sues Monarch Tractor over electric tractors that could not operate autonomously · 10 tractors TechCrunch

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