Agency
OSHA
The US workplace-safety regulator: it investigates injuries involving industrial and warehouse robots and sets the standards that govern human-robot workspaces.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration · US federal · United States · 23 linked actions · Official site
OSHA appears in the DEPLOY registry through 23 incidents investigated, the most recent on 2025-09-30.
Incidents investigated (23)
Fatality14
- OSHA: 18-year-old machine operator killed by robotic arm during sensor maintenance (2024)
Fatality · 2024-12-02
- OSHA: Worker crushed to death by robotic arm inside conveyor cage at Markman Peat Corp (2024)
Fatality · 2024-02-22
- OSHA: Worker fatally crushed by spot-welding robot during maintenance at Unipres Southeast (2022)
Fatality · 2022-09-01
- OSHA: Worker crushed and killed by Okura robotic palletizer arm at Ambrose Sales (2021)
Fatality · 2021-01-14
- OSHA: Temporary worker Regina Elsea crushed to death by assembly-line robot at Ajin USA auto-parts plant (2016)
Fatality · 2016-06-18
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- Two workers killed in transformer accident at SPX Transformer Solutions plant in Goldsboro, NC
Fatality · 2015-11-30
- OSHA: Maintenance worker struck and killed by robotic drilling/tapping machine at Martinrea Hopkinsville (2013)
Fatality · 2013-03-07
- OSHA: Worker struck from behind and killed by transfer robot inside work cell at Sodecia Sterling Heights (2012)
Fatality · 2012-12-15
- OSHA: Worker crushed by robotic palletizer arms after entering active cell at Golden State Foods (2009)
Fatality · 2009-07-21
- OSHA: Worker struck by robotic arm while troubleshooting injection-molding machine, later dies, at Lenco (2007)
Fatality · 2007-05-13
- OSHA: Worker crushed between robotic arm and workstation frame at Alliance Tech Systems (2006)
Fatality · 2006-07-24
- OSHA: Worker killed by industrial robot after entering barricaded work cell at Getrag (2004)
Fatality · 2004-03-30
- OSHA: Heat-treat operator caught and killed by robotic lifting arm between oven and quench tank at Keihin IPT (2003)
Fatality · 2003-12-13
- OSHA: Worker asphyxiated after robot started up in un-locked-out cell at JR Wheel (2001)
Fatality · 2001-12-29
Injury6
- Tesla robotics technician sues for 1M after FANUC robot accident at Fremont factory
Injury · 2025-09-30
- Multiple worker injuries and OSHA citations at Stargate Abilene construction site
Injury · 2025-05-23
- Tesla technician sues for 51M after FANUC robot arm knocked him unconscious at Fremont factory
Injury · 2023-07-22
- Automated palletizer punctured a bear-spray can at an Amazon warehouse, hospitalizing two dozen workers (2018)
Injury · 2018-12-05
- Swisslog employee sustained serious leg injury when struck by automated trolley at Walmart distribution center in Brundidge, Alabama
Injury · 2016-10-18
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Workplace Injury3
- OSHA: Maintenance worker partially amputates finger in robotic welding cell at Joon LLC stamping plant (2019)
workplace_injury · 2019-09-30
- OSHA: Worker pinned against 400F mold by robotic arm, hospitalized with burns at Omnipure Filter (2019)
workplace_injury · 2019-02-11
- OSHA: Worker struck by Fuji-Ace robot arm, suffers fractured sternum at Plastic Express (2017)
workplace_injury · 2017-01-17