>>knodi1+u2
it's not even the first this year. But yeah, from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67354709 (non-paywalled coverage of the same story) it sounds very much like not doing lockout/tagout or at least hitting the e-Stop before inspecting something.

Looks like South Korea has an osha-equivalent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_Occupational_Safety_and_... but I have no idea if they have modern robot safety standards.

>>ummonk+(OP)
Bullshit. If somebody actually died here it's an atrocious way to report it.

An unnamed man. An unnamed plant owner.

Story apparently from Yonhap, one of the largest news networks, but no link.

Apparently the second such incident, but no mention of what the first was.

Editendum: BBC reporting [0] on it somewhat calmly gives the core story some credibility.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67354709

>>knodi1+u2
This article says the first death occurred in 1979.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/robot...

>One day in 1979, a robot at a Ford Motor Company casting plant malfunctioned—human workers determined that it was not going fast enough. And so 25-year-old Robert Williams was asked to climb into a storage rack to help move things along. The one-ton robot continued to work silently, smashing into Williams’s head and instantly killing him. This was reportedly the first incident in which a robot killed a human; many more would follow.

>>qwery+D3
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-67354709 also quotes "South Korean news agency Yonhap", and quotes statements from "the Donggoseong Export Agricultural Complex, which owns the plant" - and gives "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" as additional detail of the previous incident. (That may not be enough to find earlier articles, or maybe they're just eclipsed by the current one.)

>>knodi1+u2
It isnt just the industrial robots. Earlier this year, a man in london was crushed by a "telescoping urinal", a thing i did not know even existed.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-64430454

>>ummonk+(OP)
https://www.nfa.go.kr/nfa/news/firenews/disasterNews/?mode=v...

https://m.yna.co.kr/amp/view/AKR20231108062151052

Looks like he was from the company of the said machine. The machine moves paprika boxes onto pallets.

>>ummonk+(OP)
https://web.archive.org/web/20231109002258/https://www.teleg...

>>sandwo+a6
Here are some videos of the UriLift:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kIy-wEfUGU

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTMBlOyNlqc&t=442s

Imagine using one of those thinking "I'll be fine, it only eats the workers"

>>ge96+I7
There’s these Chinese work safety videos.

Warning: graphic animated injuries with sound

https://youtu.be/J_ZOIiE8tDs?si=o0gbEg0oiXIt-19e

>>crotch+m8
Not sure if anyone has posted the Regina Elsea story yet.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-03-23/inside-al...

>>ummonk+(OP)
I do not have faith in worker protection laws and safety culture in Korea. Many do not spend the money to prevent similar deaths from happening again and I boycott several brands and brands owned by those groups.

2018: https://m.koreatimes.co.kr/pages/article.amp.asp?newsIdx=254...

2022: https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/1...

https://www.leftvoice.org/how-workers-and-socialists-are-res...

>>eichin+j43
The BBC article picture is just filler (they should more clearly indicate it when their pictures have nothing to do with the article).

Top picture:

https://m.yna.co.kr/amp/view/AKR20231108062151052

I've been trying to figure out the brand but enough of the text on the arm is obscured that I can't make it out beyond NZ...MI or something to that effect. I'd love it if someone could figure out what make and model it is. It's a palletizing robot, it looks superficially quite a bit like the Kawasaki models but the brand name fragment clearly doesn't match that (and that would be Japanese, not South Korean).

>>jacque+Xf3
Ooh, thanks for the reference. Kind of looks like https://www.zonesunpack.com/products/zonesun-industrial-arti... - that four-bar linkage for the arm segments isn't unique (as you mentioned, the big kawasaki arms use it too) but it's really not something you expect in human accessible spaces, both for pinch hazards and just catching on things...

>>jacque+Xf3
Ah, found nachirobotics with a matching logo (in a video about a refrigeration factory modernizing their automation, but it was on a welding robot there.)

So, maybe one of https://www.nachirobotics.com/product/lp180/ (or a similar model, they have half a dozen in the "kawasaki cp180 knockoff" scale...)