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Brown v. Crown Equipment Corp. - fatal forklift accident lawsuit

S5 · · Crown Equipment

Record

CompanyCrown Equipment
Categoryamr mobile robot
Typefatality
Date
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS5 (fatality or catastrophic loss)
Scalesingle unit
Confidencelow
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourceForensisGroup

What happened

Wrongful death lawsuit against Crown Equipment Corp. alleging forklift design defect and post-sale failure to warn, following a fatal warehouse forklift accident; resulted in a $1.5 million verdict.

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