S3 · · Lely
| Company | Lely |
| Category | agtech |
| Type | recall |
| Date | |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | ~$122M settlement |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | brownfieldagnews.com |
Lely reached a nearly $122 million class-action settlement (final court approval Sept 1, 2023) over claims that its Astronaut A4 robotic milking systems, sold 2011-2018, were defectively designed/manufactured, harming cow health, milk production and quality for ~400 dairy farms nationwide.