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Car assembly line robot mortally injures worker in Germany
(CNN)An automotive assembly line robot mortally injured a worker at a car factory in Germany this week, a prosecutor's office said.
The man, 21, was installing the robot at a Volkswagen assembly line on Tuesday in Baunatal, which lies next to the city of Kassel, local newspaper the Hessische Niedersaechsische Allgemeine reported, citing a VW spokesman. The robot gripped him and pressed up him against a metal plate, crushing his chest.
Despite efforts to revive him, the worker, an employee of a third-party vendor, later died in hospital, the paper reported.
As a matter of procedure necessary to have the body released in cases of non-natural death, the state prosecutors' office said it is investigating to rule out any criminal culpability.
CNN placed calls to multiple press spokespeople at Volkswagen, but was unable to reach one.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/02/europe...ker/index.html
(CNN)An automotive assembly line robot mortally injured a worker at a car factory in Germany this week, a prosecutor's office said.
The man, 21, was installing the robot at a Volkswagen assembly line on Tuesday in Baunatal, which lies next to the city of Kassel, local newspaper the Hessische Niedersaechsische Allgemeine reported, citing a VW spokesman. The robot gripped him and pressed up him against a metal plate, crushing his chest.
Despite efforts to revive him, the worker, an employee of a third-party vendor, later died in hospital, the paper reported.
As a matter of procedure necessary to have the body released in cases of non-natural death, the state prosecutors' office said it is investigating to rule out any criminal culpability.
CNN placed calls to multiple press spokespeople at Volkswagen, but was unable to reach one.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/02/europe...ker/index.html
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If it gripped him it's either his fault or foul play. I'm guessing it was more along the lines of pinching him in a moving part by accident. That goes more toward an operator being where he shouldn't when power is applied and the machine is live.
This sh*t is no joke. The warning labels can be funny, and it's all well-and-good to say "Don't be that guy" . . .
but warning labels like this tend to be "written in blood".
This sh*t is no joke. The warning labels can be funny, and it's all well-and-good to say "Don't be that guy" . . .
but warning labels like this tend to be "written in blood".