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SSI Schaefer

Products: n/a. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 6.3/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 98th percentile of 273 warehouse automation companies.

Analyst brief

SSI Schaefer's record holds one 2017 event: a racking and crane system collapse at a PepsiCo-owned juice plant in Russia, classified as a malfunction at severity 4. The index of 6.4 and percentile of 97.8 place the company near the top of the warehouse-automation category, indicating a single high-severity structural failure outweighs most category peers' records. The event is a structural/mechanical collapse in an installed system rather than a software or control failure, and the record is a single occurrence with no indication of recurrence. Its category standing is driven by severity concentration in one event rather than incident volume.

Entries by year and severity

012017 S4: 1117
S1S2S3S4S5

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S404/25
2017
malfunction Lebedyan, Lipetsk Oblast, RussiaRacking/crane system collapse at PepsiCo-owned Lebedyansky juice plant (Russia) · 1 storage facility; 28+ million liters… TASS

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