Products: unattributed. Risk band: High RobotRisk index 46.6/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 100th percentile of 62 other companies.
This category record contains five events spanning May 2024 to May 2026: four fatalities and one severe injury, all occurring at industrial or auto-parts manufacturing sites in South Korea. Three of the five fatalities involve workers struck, entangled, or crushed by robot arms or machinery presumed stopped at the time, and the pattern recurs across at least four separate facilities (Haman, Yeosu, Jinju, Cheonan) over roughly two years. The index of 47 and 100th percentile reflect the highest severity concentration in the dataset, driven by a repeated fatality mode involving human-robot proximity during what appear to be maintenance, entrapment, or unexpected machinery activation scenarios. This is a systemic, multi-site pattern rather than a single event, with fatalities recurring at a rate of roughly one every four to twelve months across the observed period.