Mechanophobia

Mechanophobia is a type of specific phobia that involves the fear of machines or anything mechanical. The source says it frequently arises after traumatic incidents involving machinery, such as the loss of a limb, and that industrial machinery such as shredders, grinders, chainsaws and overlockers is a particularly strong trigger because of its capacity to cause serious injury. It is described as having emerged in the nineteenth century as a reaction to the effects of the Industrial Revolution. The source also records historical usage, including a 1931 book by John Vassos that treated it as an affliction of people who saw machines as symbols of power, and a 1934 Science News Letter that described it as a hatred of machines because they replaced human laborers. The Medicine Atlas records it as a named specific phobia and offers no medical advice.