{"id":529,"date":"2009-08-12T20:53:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T02:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=529"},"modified":"2009-08-12T20:53:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T02:53:01","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-august-12-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For August 12, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Automated Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Robert Williams was the first man ever killed by a robot. On January 25, 1979, Williams climbed into a storage rack at the Ford Motor\u2019s Flat Rock casting plant to retrieve a part because the parts-retrieval robot malfunctioned. Suddenly, the robot reactivated and slammed its arm into Williams\u2019 head, killing him instantly.<\/p>\n<p>The second death by robot happened just a couple of years afterwards in 1981. Kenji Urada, a 37-year-old Japanese maintenance engineer was working on a broken robot at a Kawasaki plant when he failed to turn it off. The robot\u2019s mechanical arm accidentally pushed him into a grinding machine.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2007\/03\/12\/30-strangest-deaths-in-history\/\">Neatorama<\/a><br \/>\nGenerously submitted by: Bex<\/p>\n<p>Never trust a robot, I always say! It hasn&#8217;t failed me yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Automated Yet Truly Morbid Fact! Robert Williams was the first man ever killed by a robot. On January 25, 1979, Williams climbed into a storage rack at the Ford Motor\u2019s Flat Rock casting plant to retrieve a part because the parts-retrieval robot malfunctioned. Suddenly, the robot reactivated and slammed its arm into Williams\u2019 head, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}