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Kawasaki Robotics

Products: 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 (130 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. Kawasaki Robotics's index of 0.0 ranks 7 of 7 companies in Machinery OEM with incident history. No pattern exists beyond this one entry, which predates the rest of the register by decades.

Risk index

0.0/100RobotRisk index
12.6/100Median index across the 7 Machinery OEM companies with incident history (130 tracked, 123 with none)
7 of 7Rank in Machinery OEM (of 7 with incident history)
LowRisk band

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident typeUnique incidentsShare
fatality1100%

Unique incident list

1 unique incident on file for this company.

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S504 Jul 1981 fatality Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant, Akashi, JapanKenji 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)
Kawasaki Heavy Industries plant, Akashi, Japan1 supporting source rowmedium confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S504 Jul 1981Kenji Urada killed by Kawasaki-built robot at Akashi plant (landmark robot fatality)Wikipedia

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