Worker killed during Volkswagen robot assembly

Posted on 2 Jul 2015 by Michael Cruickshank

A worker has been killed at a Volkswagen factory in Germany in a freak accident involving an assembly line robot.

The incident occurred when an outside contractor working at the company’s Meissen factory was assembling a new robot for an electric motor production line. Reportedly, during this process, the robot stuck the man, and pressed him against a metal slab, severely injuring the worker. Despite on-site first aid and resuscitation attempts, the worker later died…

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