Don't know why the article is worded so emotively. If said worker was crushed by an automated forklift, there wouldn't be a "Christine" implication on forklifts.
Lock out/tag out is industrially state of the norm forever, and prevents this sort of thing happening nearly every time.
I commissioned a fibreboard factory in the '90s, and there was a bloke there who was nearly killed by automated plant....but he'd bridged out and bypassed 2 completely independent personnel protective (plant trip) devices to get into harms way "to perform a simple adjustment".
Same place, I found a guy standing on the feed belt of the press (descendent of Sherriff Behan), whose sole lock-out was a "/" in a programmable logic controller.