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The family of a repair technician killed in an auto parts factory accident is suing five robotics companies they say are responsible.
In a suit [PDF] filed to the Western Michigan US District Court this week, the family of Wanda Holbrook claims that the companies that built, installed, and maintained the robotics at a trailer hitch assembly plant should be held liable for her fatal accident at the plant in 2015.
According to the lawsuit, Holbrook, a journeyman technician, was performing routine maintenance on one of the robots on the trailer hitch assembly line when the unit unexpectedly activated and attempted to load a part into the unit being repaired, crushing Holbrook's head.
Now Holbrook's estate is suing the three companies that built the robots (Fanuc America, Nachi Robotic, and Lincoln Electric) for failing to design adequate safeguards and protections into the robots. They're also suing two other companies that installed and maintained the unit (Flex-N-Gate, Prodomax) for failing to prevent an accident they say would have been avoided had safety been a higher priority.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @03:38AM (7 children)
The worth of a non elite human life.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @04:23AM (6 children)
When I was 12, a theater in town had a deal with the junior high school.
Once a month, they ran a film of a classic story.
One had a scene I really remember.
I lived in a military town in the South.
Things were very regimented and conformist.
(You never would have guessed that. Right?)
There's a scene in A Tale of Two Cities where a rich guy's carriage runs down a 99 Percenter's kid.
The asshole blows it off like it's nothing.
Chapter 7 [googleusercontent.com] (orig[1]) [adelaide.edu.au]
That night, the dead kid's dad sneaks into the asshole's house.
Chapter 9 [googleusercontent.com] (orig[2]) [adelaide.edu.au]
A massive cheer went up from the crowd when his hand plunged downward.
That's when I knew the '60s had arrived in my hometown.
[1] "He was a man of about sixty"
[2] There's a small rehash at about the 80 percent mark which includes "the tall man".
(You can really tell that Dickens got paid by the word.)
The last couple of paragraphs are the nugget.
(A Gorgon is a mythical creature with hair made of serpents.
A human who looked at one turned to stone.)
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @06:47AM (1 child)
Not bad, but would be better if you worked on your rhyming a bit more: 5/10.
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday March 14 2017, @08:14PM
When I was but 12, a theater's deal with the junior high school;
was run once a month, a film, a classical jewel.
One had a scene I really remember.
'Twas a military town, South, in December.
Things were quite regimented, conformist to boot.
(You never would have guessed that, am I right, you fruit)
A scene in A Tale of Two Cities about vehicular man-slaughter.
Alas, it was only a 99 percenter's daughter.
The asshole blows it off, assuming it's nothing.
That night, the kid's dad breaks in, furiously frothing.
A massive cheer went up from the crowd when his hand plunged down.
That's when I knew the '60s had arrived in my town.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Tuesday March 14 2017, @07:27AM (3 children)
That's worrisome.
I would have cheered if the life of that man would have been destroyed, to the point of him getting the poorest man in the city. I wouldn't cheer at getting him killed.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @08:12AM (2 children)
Later in the story, the 99 Percenters use the guillotine repeatedly to rid themselves of their oppressors.
Every time another head gets chopped off, the crowd (in the story) roars its approval.
Call it an adjustment to the balance of power in that society.
.
I'm reminded of the non-emotional response given by Michael Dukakis in a presidential "debate" regarding his Liberal stance on the death penalty.
The brilliant Arron Sorkin did a take on this in a script [tripod.com] for "The West Wing".
(Bartlett was trying to win a bet with his staff that he could get Toby completely flustered.)
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Tuesday March 14 2017, @02:48PM (1 child)
Making it part of a joke (bet) kind of ruins the entire impact of that story.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @07:08PM
That's one opinion.
Many recognize the link to Dukakis and how the Democrats (and the other big party, for that matter) manage to find candidates who can only recite a set of memorized positions and who are unable to think on their feet and, more importantly, as noted by Toby's "it's barely human!" remark, are unable to demonstrate a normal reaction of a homo sapiens sapiens to a situation.
On a related note, some on the 'Net have noted the parallels between the Orange Clown (whose maturation stalled at age 13 when he was sent to a military school where he was emotionally abused) and the sociopath presidential candidate [google.com] in Stephen King's "The Dead Zone" (who, as in the case of Jed Bartlett, was also played by Martin Sheen).
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