{
 "public_id": "AIR-2023-0028",
 "incident_id": "2023-11-dongseong-stacking-robot-fatality",
 "date_disclosed": "2023-11-08",
 "date_occurred": "2023-11-07",
 "title": "Industrial stacking robot classified a worker as a box of produce and crushed him to death in South Gyeongsang",
 "class": "safety_failure",
 "attack_surface": "autonomous_ops",
 "initial_vector": "none_autonomous_action",
 "agent_capability_abused": [
  "perception",
  "physical_actuation",
  "object_classification"
 ],
 "target_product": "palletising robot, Dongseong Export Agricultural Complex",
 "target_vendor": "unnamed robotics contractor",
 "autonomy_level": "fully_autonomous",
 "impact_realized": true,
 "impact_type": [
  "physical_safety"
 ],
 "blast_radius": "one worker killed",
 "cve": [],
 "taxonomy": {
  "owasp_asi": [],
  "mitre_atlas": [],
  "labels": [
   "no_adversary",
   "perception_failure",
   "misclassification",
   "physical_world",
   "fatality"
  ]
 },
 "defense_present": "sensor-based safety stop (the system the victim was inspecting)",
 "defense_bypassed": true,
 "fix_shipped": "unknown",
 "primary_sources": [
  "https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/11/08/man-crushed-to-death-south-korea-industrial-robot/",
  "https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/599"
 ],
 "verified_quote": "A robot crushed a man to death in South Korea after the machine apparently failed to differentiate him from the boxes of produce it was handling, the Yonhap news agency reported on Wednesday.",
 "confidence": "high",
 "notes": "Pre-LLM industrial autonomy, kept because the failure shape is the one this corpus tracks: an autonomous actuator acted on a confident misclassification with no human in the loop. The victim was inspecting the very sensor that should have prevented it. AI Incident Database incident 599.",
 "risk_category": "safety_harm",
 "risk_secondary": [],
 "risk_subcategory": "Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "risk_sub_secondary": [],
 "ai_entity": "non_generative_autonomy",
 "agency": "agent_acted",
 "agency_debatable": false,
 "agency_reason": "the robot classified the worker as produce and crushed him",
 "vector_family": "none_autonomous",
 "vector_detail": "none_autonomous_action",
 "guardrail_kind": [
  "physical_safety_system"
 ],
 "guardrail_outcome": "silent",
 "xrefs": {
  "aiid": [
   599
  ],
  "atlas": [],
  "cve": [],
  "ghsa": []
 },
 "primary_asi": "none",
 "agent_framework": "unknown",
 "model_provider": "none",
 "model_name": "",
 "detection_mechanism": "unknown",
 "tool_access": "unknown",
 "financial_loss_band": "unknown",
 "eai_category": "unsafe_actuation",
 "eai_domain": "agent_behaviour",
 "eai_secondary": [],
 "eai_reason": "subcategory: Physical Injury by Autonomous Action",
 "asi_curated": [],
 "asi_scope": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_provenance": "out_of_scope",
 "asi_reason": "out of scope: non_generative_autonomy: no ASI mechanism describes the failure",
 "submitted_by": "EAI Internal"
}