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Robot Palletizer (Dallas)

Products: n/a. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 25.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 99th percentile of 273 warehouse automation companies.

Analyst brief

The record contains a single entry: a February 2024 fatality in which a machine operator was crushed by a palletizer at a Schreiber Foods facility in Carthage, Missouri, rated severity 5, the maximum on the scale. This is a one-event record, so no volume or trend beyond the single fatality can be assessed. The index of 25.6 and 99.2 percentile place this entity at the top of the warehouse-automation category, a standing driven entirely by the fatal severity of this one incident. The record reflects a workplace fatality involving fixed automation equipment, consistent with the kind of finding typically subject to occupational safety investigation.

Entries by year and severity

012024 S5: 1124
S1S2S3S4S5

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S502/2024
15:44 CT
fatality Carthage, MO, USAMachine operator crushed to death by palletizer at Schreiber Foods, Carthage MO · 1 fatality, 1 palletizer OSHA

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