RoboticsMedium
Warehouse robot ruptures can of bear spray and injures workers
- Occurred
- Dec 5, 2018
- Published
- Dec 7, 2018
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Twenty-four Amazon workers in New Jersey were hospitalized after a robot punctured a can of bear repellent spray in a warehouse.
Developers
- Amazon
Deployers
- Amazon
Harmed parties
- Warehouse workers
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Physical robot malfunction caused injuries to workers in a warehouse setting.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8