Warehouse automation

Analyst brief

Warehouse automation carries 16 incidents across 8 of 273 tracked companies, a 3-percent record rate on the largest company population in the dataset. Malfunction (4), fatality (3), fire (3), crash (2), and injury (2) form a mixed type profile with no single dominant failure mode. Severity skews toward the higher end, with 13 of 16 entries at tiers 3 through 5 and only 3 at tier 2, indicating a record weighted toward consequential rather than minor events despite the category's low overall coverage. Amazon and Ocado Intelligent Automation head the named entities, consistent with incident volume concentrating among the largest-scale automated fulfillment operators.

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.