March 28, 2017
The head injuries his wife received were so severe, a funeral director suggested a closed casket. Now the husband wants answers so that this sort of tragedy involving a factory robot doesn’t happen again.
On July 7, 2015, Wanda Holbrook, 57, was working at Ventra, an auto parts factory, in Ionia, MI. Holbrook specialized in fixing the robots used in the factory. She’d worked there 12 years.
On that day, a robot’s arm malfunctioned, hitting and crushing Holbrook’s head, killing her.
She was found, unresponsive, by co-workers. She was pronounced dead at the scene about 40 minutes after the incident.
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