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Worker killed by robotic machine at Milwaukee pizza plant

S5 · 09/17
2025 · Palermo's Pizza · Milwaukee, WI, USA

Record

CompanyPalermo's Pizza
Categoryother
Typefatality
Date09/17
2025
Time of daynot documented
LocationMilwaukee, WI, USA
SeverityS5 (fatality or catastrophic loss)
Scale1 fatality
Confidencehigh
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceWISN / Fox News

What happened

A worker at the Palermo's Pizza manufacturing facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin died after an accident involving an automated robotic machine on the production line.

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