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Wanda Holbrook killed by robot at Ventra Ionia Mainstamping plant
S5 · 07 Jul 2015 · Nachi-Fujikoshi
Record
| Company | Nachi-Fujikoshi |
| Industry | Machinery OEM |
| Type(s) | fatality |
| Date | 07 Jul 2015 (day precision) |
| Time of day | ~14:20 |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | 1 fatality |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verified flag | Cited source on file; not independently re-verified |
Summary
A maintenance technician, Wanda Holbrook, was fatally struck/crushed by an industrial robot arm at the Ventra Ionia Mainstamping plant in Michigan. A wrongful-death lawsuit named Nachi Robotic Systems as one of the manufacturers of the robot involved (along with Fanuc America and Lincoln Electric), alleging the robot's safety systems failed and that OSHA/MIOSHA safety requirements were not met.
Primary source
Publisher: Manufacturing.net · Retrieved: 2026-09-16
Supporting source rows (1)
| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07 Jul 2015 | Wanda Holbrook killed by robot at Ventra Ionia Mainstamping plant | Manufacturing.net | Manufacturing.net |
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