Agtech

Analyst brief

The category's sole entity, Lely, is defined by one high-value class-action settlement (~$122M) over a defect in its Astronaut A4 robotic milking system. The dominant failure mode on record is a product-liability defect resolved through litigation rather than a regulatory recall or operational incident. With only one entity and one event, the data shows total concentration in a single company and a single event type; no pattern across multiple incidents or firms is evident. The record is press/litigation-driven rather than regulator-driven.

Company risk ranking

Index 0-100: each documented incident is weighted by severity and by how well-sourced it is, discounted as it ages (half its weight every 3 years), then summed per company and scaled on a log curve so the highest-risk company worldwide is 100. Rank in industry: position among companies in the same industry that have at least one documented incident. Band groups the index: Critical (75+), High (45-74), Elevated (15-44), Low (under 15 with at least one incident); None documented means no public incident was found, which is not proof of safety.

Recent incidents