How Robot K!lled Worker On Inspection In South Korea | READ DETAILS
Faith Ukanwa
Nov 10, 2023
How Robot K!lled Worker On Inspection In South Korea | READ DETAILS
A worker in his 40s has been ki-lled by an industrial robot which mistook him for a box of bell pepper while he was inspecting the robot's sensor at a warehouse for agricultural products in South Gyeongsand province, in South Korea.
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According to the police, the robot's mechanical arm pushed the man's upper body onto a conveyor belt and crushed his face and chest.
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He died later in a hospital.
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The robot was responsible for lifting boxes of peppers and transferring them onto pallets.
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The man had been checking the robot's sensor operations ahead of its test run at the pepper sorting plant in South Gyeongsang province, scheduled for 8 November.
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The test had originally been planned for 6 November, but was pushed back by two days due to problems with the robot's sensor.
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The man, a worker from the company that manufactured the robotic arm, was running checks on the machine late into the night on Wednesday when it malfunctioned.
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In a statement after the incident, an official from the Donggoseong Export Agricultural Complex, which owns the plant, called for a "precise and safe" system to be established.
In March, a South Korean man in his 50s suffered serious injuries after getting trapped by a robot while working at an automobile parts manufacturing plant.
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