Random Scary Real Life Robot Attacks (13 items)

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  (#11) The Robotic Strangler

  In December 2001 at Jr. Wheel Inc., an employee was tidying up before clocking out for the day. He made his way into a robot cell when the machinery booted up, snatched him by the neck, pinned him under a wheel rim, and asphyxiated him.
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  (#12) A Palletizer Squeezed a Woman to Death

  In July 2009 a woman was operating a robotic palletizer at Golden State Foods, Inc. While the machine was still running, she entered the caged robot cell - the arms of the palletizer reached for her instead of the boxes on the conveyer. It crushed her torso, killing her.
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  (#9) Employee Dies After Being Beaten by Robotic Arm

  In May 2007, an employee of Lenco, Inc. was trying to repair a robotic arm designed to remove CD cases from an injection-molding machine. The robot lashed out violently, circling its arm around to assault the man. He suffered blunt force trauma to his ribs and skull and died two weeks later in the hospital.
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  (#3) The Kawasaki Robot Rebellion in Japan

  Back in December 1981, an engineer named Kenji Urada was trying to fix a robot at the Kawasaki Heavy Industrial Plant in Japan, when it suddenly turned on him. The mechanical beast activated itself and used its hydraulic arm to shove Urada into the grinding machine.
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  (#8) Robot Attacked a Factory Worker in Sweden

  In June 2007, an industrial robot attacked and almost killed a man in Sweden. He thought he had successfully cut of power to the robots, which were used for relocating giant rocks, and approached the machines to carry out his maintenance work. Suddenly, they whirred to life and one put his head in a vice grip. He struggled to free himself and sustained quite a few injuries (including four broken ribs), but made it out alive.
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  (#10) The Man-Crushing Alvey Machine

  An Alvey machine at Colorado's Blueshift Industrial brutalized a construction contractor who had been hired, ironically enough, to install platforms allowing safer access to the machinery.

  The Alvey machine is a robot used in the distribution of packaged products and consists of four main components: the computer, the carousel, the Inserter and Extruder car, and a system of conveyors. As the contractor was working, the Extruder car struck him; he feel approximately 10 feet, and got caught in the main path between the Inserter and Extruder cars, which ran him over and crushed his head, killing him.
  

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