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Sky Elements Drone Show

Products: automation-operator. Risk band: Elevated   RobotRisk index 21.8/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 69th percentile of 62 other companies.

Analyst brief

The record shows one entry: a December 2024 incident in which falling drones seriously injured a 7-year-old at a public holiday drone show in Orlando, classified as an injury event of high severity (4). With a single logged event, the record reflects one occurrence rather than a pattern. The index of 22 corresponds to the 69.4th percentile in the 'other' category and an elevated band, indicating the severity of this one event is sufficient to place the entity above roughly two-thirds of category peers despite the low event count. The entry concerns a public-facing operational failure and is press-driven, arising from injury to a bystander rather than a regulatory proceeding. The record as given documents a single high-severity injury event with no additional history.

Entries by year and severity

012024 S4: 1124
S1S2S3S4S5

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S412/2024
evening, Dec 21, 2024
injury Orlando, FL, USAFalling drones seriously injure 7-year-old boy at Orlando Lake Eola holiday drone show · multi-drone light show NBC News

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