OSHA

Incidents investigated (22)

• Tesla robotics technician sues for 1M after FANUC robot accident at Fremont factory

  Injury · 2025-09-30

• 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

• Tesla technician sues for 51M after FANUC robot arm knocked him unconscious at Fremont factory

  Injury · 2023-07-22

• 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: 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

• Automated palletizer punctured a bear-spray can at an Amazon warehouse, hospitalizing two dozen workers (2018)

  Injury · 2018-12-05

• OSHA: Worker struck by Fuji-Ace robot arm, suffers fractured sternum at Plastic Express (2017)

  workplace_injury · 2017-01-17

• Swisslog employee sustained serious leg injury when struck by automated trolley at Walmart distribution center in Brundidge, Alabama

  Injury · 2016-10-18

• OSHA: Temporary worker Regina Elsea crushed to death by assembly-line robot at Ajin USA auto-parts plant (2016)

  Fatality · 2016-06-18

• Two workers killed in transformer accident at SPX Transformer Solutions plant in Goldsboro, NC

  Fatality · 2015-11-30

• Maintenance tech Wanda Holbrook killed when assembly-line robotics activated during service, Ionia MI (2015)

  Injury · 2015-07-07

• 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