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Samsung SDI

Products: n/a. Risk band: Low   RobotRisk index 13.8/100 (severity- and time-weighted incidents) · ranked 6 of 7 among Energy storage companies with incidents (227 tracked).

Analyst brief

Samsung SDI's record holds one entry: an October 2019 government-led investigation in South Korea into SDI batteries implicated in energy storage system fires, severity 3. This is a regulatory-driven record, not a press account of a discrete accident, reflecting a probe rather than a confirmed single-battery failure. The single-row record shows no trajectory; it captures a one-time regulatory episode. Samsung SDI's index of 13.8 ranks 6 of 7 companies in Energy storage with incident history.

Risk index

13.8/100RobotRisk index
23.5/100Median index across the 7 Energy storage companies with incident history (227 tracked, 220 with none)
6 of 7Rank in Energy storage (of 7 with incident history)
LowRisk band

Incident timeline

Comparisons over time

Per-type breakdown

Incident typeUnique incidentsShare
regulatory1100%

Unique incident list

1 unique incident on file for this company.

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S306 Feb 2020 regulatory ESS facility, South Jeolla Province, South KoreaSamsung SDI batteries implicated in South Korea government ESS fire probe · part of a 27-fire national ESS incident cluster The Korea Times
S3 06 Feb 2020 · regulatory · Samsung SDI batteries implicated in South Korea government ESS fire probe
ESS facility, South Jeolla Province, South Korea1 supporting source rowhigh confidence
SevDateSupporting source rowSource
S306 Feb 2020Samsung SDI batteries implicated in South Korea government ESS fire probeThe Korea Times

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