Robot Crushes Contractor to Death at VW Motor Plant in Germany.

Jul 1 2015, 10:45 pm ET
Robot Crushes Contractor to Death at VW Motor Plant in Germany

by M. Alex Johnson

Prosecutors are investigating the death of a worker who was crushed by a robotic system he was setting up at a Volkswagen plant in the Kassel district of Germany, authorities and VW said Wednesday.

Heiko Hillwig, a VW spokesman, told the local newspaper Hessische Niedersächsische Allgemeine that the man — who worked for a contractor and was identified only as being from the German state of Saxony — was killed Monday at a plant in the town of Baunatal, north of Frankfurt, where VW is starting a new production line for electric motors.

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