RoboticsCritical
Stacking robot fatally crushes employee in South Korea
- Occurred
- Nov 8, 2023
- Published
- Nov 8, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
An industrial robot is reported to have crushed a man to death in South Korea when it failed to differentiate the man from the boxes of produce it was handling.
Developers
- Unknown
Deployers
- Unnamed South Gyeongsang province produce distribution center
Harmed parties
- Unnamed employee of South Gyeongsang province produce distribution center
Tags
- robotics
- workplace death
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 95%
Rationale: Industrial robot fatality due to failure to distinguish human from objects.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8