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Brown v. Crown Equipment Corp. - fatal forklift accident lawsuit
S5 · 01 Aug 2003 · Crown Equipment
Record
| Company | Crown Equipment |
| Industry | AMR / mobile robot |
| Type(s) | fatality |
| Date | 01 Aug 2003 (day precision) |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | single unit |
| Confidence | low |
| Verified flag | Cited source on file; not independently re-verified |
Summary
Wrongful death lawsuit against Crown Equipment Corp. alleging forklift design defect and post-sale failure to warn, following a fatal warehouse forklift accident; resulted in a $1.5 million verdict.
Primary source
Publisher: ForensisGroup · Retrieved: 2026-09-16
Supporting source rows (1)
| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 Aug 2003 | Brown v. Crown Equipment Corp. - fatal forklift accident lawsuit | ForensisGroup | ForensisGroup |
AMR / mobile robot context
fatality context
Crown Equipment industry position
Related incidents
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