Kawasaki Robotics
Robot types: Industrial arm. Risk band: Low RobotRisk index 0.0/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 7 of 7 among Machinery OEM companies with incidents (257 tracked).
Analyst brief
Kawasaki Robotics' record holds one entry: the July 1981 death of Kenji Urada, killed by a Kawasaki-built robot at the Akashi plant, rated severity 5 and identified in the record as a landmark case in industrial robot fatalities. This is a single historical event with no accompanying regulatory or recall entry in the data provided. No pattern exists beyond this one entry, which predates the rest of the register by decades.
Risk index
Products and robot types
Industries: Machinery OEM · Sectors: Manufacturing
Risk is scored per product and robot type: each incident is attributed to the product it names, or to the company's matching robot type.
| Robot type | Share of company risk | Rank within type |
|---|---|---|
| Industrial arm | 100% | 7 of 7 |
| Product | Robot type | Status | Incidents | Index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CP Series | Industrial arm | shipping | 1 | 0.0 |
Incident timeline
Comparisons over time
Per-type breakdown
| Incident type | Unique incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| fatality | 1 | 100% |
Unique incident list
1 unique incident on file for this company.
| Sev | Date | Type | Location | Incident | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S5 | 04 Jul 1981 | fatality | Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant, Akashi, Japan | Kenji Urada killed by Kawasaki-built robot at Akashi plant (landmark robot fatality) · 1 fatality | Wikipedia |
S5 04 Jul 1981 · fatality · Kenji Urada killed by Kawasaki-built robot at Akashi plant (landmark robot fatality)
| Sev | Date | Supporting source row | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| S5 | 04 Jul 1981 | Kenji Urada killed by Kawasaki-built robot at Akashi plant (landmark robot fatality) | Wikipedia |
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