Maintenance technician crushed to death by robot at Ventra Ionia auto-parts plant
S5 · 07 Jul 2015 · FANUC · Ionia, MI, USA
Record
| Company | FANUC |
| Industry | Machinery OEM |
| Type(s) | fatality |
| Date | 07 Jul 2015 (day precision) |
| Time of day | 14:20 |
| Location | Ionia, MI, USA · Ventra Ionia Main plant |
| Severity | (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | 1 fatality |
| Confidence | high |
| Verified flag | Yes - independently re-checked against the cited source |
Summary
Wanda Holbrook, a maintenance technician at Ventra Ionia Main in Michigan, was crushed between a hitch-assembly fixture and a robot that unexpectedly moved into her work section; the wrongful-death suit named FANUC America (along with Nachi Robotic Systems and Lincoln Electric) as builders of the robots in the cell, and OSHA fined the plant operator for a serious safety violation.
Primary source
Publisher: Manufacturing.net · Retrieved: 2026-09-16
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| Date | Supporting source row | Publisher | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 07 Jul 2015 | Maintenance technician crushed to death by robot at Ventra Ionia auto-parts plant | Manufacturing.net | Manufacturing.net |
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