| Company | Ocado Intelligent Automation |
| Category | warehouse automation |
| Type | fire |
| Date | |
| Time of day | 01:41 GMT |
| Location | Andover, England, UK · Ocado Andover CFC |
| Severity | S4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding) |
| Scale | 1 full customer fulfilment centre destroyed; facility handled ~30,000 deliveries/week |
| Confidence | high |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service (also Euronews, Reuters coverage) |
An electrical fault in a first-generation battery charging unit at the edge of the ambient storage grid ignited the plastic lid of a grocery-picking robot, and the resulting blaze destroyed the majority of Ocado's Andover, UK customer fulfilment centre. Around 200 firefighters and 20 engines fought the fire, with damages estimated above £100 million.