Authorities say he was he was grabbed and pressed against a conveyor belt by the machine's robotic arms in a vegetable packing plant.
Seoul, South Korea — An industrial robot crushed a worker to death at a vegetable packaging plant in South Korea, police said Thursday, as they investigate whether the machine was unsafe or had potential defects. According to police officials in the southern county of Goseong, the man died of head and chest injuries Tuesday after he was grabbed and pressed against a conveyor belt by the machine's robotic arms.
'It wasn't an advanced, artificial intelligence-powered robot, but a machine that simply picks up boxes and puts them on pallets,' said Kang Jin-gi, who heads the investigations department at Gosong Police Station. He said the police were working with related agencies to determine whether the machine had technical defects or safety issues.
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