Off-highway autonomy

Analyst brief

The category's sole entity, Caterpillar, is represented by one severity-2 event: an autonomous haul truck reversing into an excavator at a mine site. The dominant failure mode on record is an autonomous-equipment contact incident during mining operations rather than a recall or design defect. With only one entity and one event, the data shows full concentration in a single company and a single operational-contact event type. The record is press-driven, based on reporting of the site incident rather than a regulatory action.

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