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Palermo's Pizza

Products: automation-operator. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 31.9/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 94th percentile of 62 other companies.

Analyst brief

The record consists of a single entry from September 17, 2025, reporting a worker killed by a robotic machine at a Milwaukee pizza plant, with severity rated 5 of 5, the maximum in this dataset. This is a single fatality event, press-reported, involving industrial robotic equipment in a food-processing setting. Palermo's Pizza's index of 32.2 places it at the 93.5th percentile within the other category, an elevated band driven entirely by the single maximum-severity fatality entry rather than by volume or repeat incidents. No recall, malfunction, or prior-incident entries accompany this record.

Entries by year and severity

012025 S5: 1125
S1S2S3S4S5

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S509/17
2025
fatality Milwaukee, WI, USAWorker killed by robotic machine at Milwaukee pizza plant · 1 fatality WISN / Fox News

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