First Day on the Job Was His Last: What Happened to Day Davis

this is the Bacardi bottling plant in Jacksonville Florida it's August 16 2012 at 4:30 p.m. what you're seeing here is a pallet Iser a machine that packed and stacks cases of rum onto a pallet the men you see here operates the pallet Iser he's been cleaning the machine because bottles often break in the cases and the rum leaks on the conveyor belt making it sticky when this happens the cases then crash into each other and bottles fall to the ground this has been happening for a couple of years uh Picardie and it hasn't been fixed as an operator walks away cases start coming down the line very quickly and crashing into each other he hits the emergency stop button now was supposed to happen next his operators need to put a lock on the machine to prevent somebody from pushing the start button while someone else is inside under the machine there's a lot of shattered glass as seen in these photos there's also another emergency stop button and some bars that you can put underneath the platform to keep it from falling but employees rarely did this for fear of slowing down production the man in the orange vest is de Davis he's a temp worker on his first day on any job in his entire life in fact his shift started just an hour and a half ago when he sent this photo to his fiancee the operator points down below and tells davis to sweep up the glass under the machine look at the bottom right-hand corner of the screen you'll see Davis go underneath the pallet Iser to sweep up the glass a few minutes later Davis goes back upstairs ask a question the man in the white shirt who the supervisor told police he had told Davis to sit by the side but others heard him tell Davis to simply go get some gloves Davis goes back downstairs underneath the machine the supervisor and operator finished cleaning the conveyor rollers above Davis they closed the gate and turn on the machine cases come down the line they're pushed into a square and the platform goes down then they hear a yell they see that Davis has been crushed by the machine they hit the stop button the palletize ER operator is trying to manually raise the platform off Davis but it's not working the supervisor radios for someone to call 911 a pry bar to see if they can lift up the platform there were some 60 cases weighing about 2,000 pounds on the platform when it went down first responders got there within minutes but it was already too late the weight of the machine had killed Davis you

Channel: ProPublica

Views: 16,188,809

Rating: 4.3264604 out of 5

Keywords: temp workers, temps, Bacardi

Id: cNcsTRQNZLE

Length: 2min 49sec (169 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 18 2013

Reddit Comments

[u/VanillaOreo]

OSHA so hot right now?

[u/fledermausman]

THIS IS NOT WHAT I WAS EXPECTING!!!

[u/manowhat]

Lock-out Tag-out!

I had a coworker lose his arm and his coworker died due to a supervisor cutting a lockout off and turning on a 480 volt system because it was cutting into production.

I watched a 20 year old girl lose her hand when she bypassed a security switch on a small grinder (think paper shredder) to clean it. I spent 40 minutes disassembling the grinder with blood and ruined fingers all over to get her hand out.

You only need to see an accident once to never forget the lock-out!

[u/lateral_us]

My dad's a machinist, and one of his main suppliers of jobs, especially rush jobs and the old middle of the night "omfg get here right now the whole plants shut down we need this part made 5 minutes ago" type jobs is a major poultry processing plant. They use ammonia refrigeration, and one of the types of jobs he does is fixing leaks in the lines, which is extremely deadly if some asshat forgets to flush the lines out, or worse doesn't shut the system off and relieve the pressure. Pure/highly concentrated ammonia with burn your lungs and suffocate you with one breath. That's why my dad only trusts one guy there to shut things off, cause it's his life if they fuck up and everyone else that works there has their head up their ass. He's actually had another guy that worked there tell him multiple times "yes, I'm sure the lines have been flushed", and then found out he was wrong once he started to grind into the line and had a tiny spray of straight ammonia start blowing right at his goggles. He'd be blind if he hadn't been wearing them, and would have died if he hadn't thought quickly enough to hold his breath, keep his eyes closed, and start lowering the manlift immediately. Yeah he was up in a fucking lift too. If I hadn't been too young to drive I'd have gone there and started destroying shit that night. He could have easily died, as they have to lock the room down in the event of a leak like that so it doesn't kill everyone else in the plant. So if he had started coughing and fell down up there in the manlift, they'd have left him there and sealed the room till hazmat came. Fuck you to all the people who think they're smart enough to ignore safety precautions, and a really big Fuck You to people who are careless with the lives of others, especially when you're specifically asked about something and you just answer confidently without double or triple checking it. You sure that harness is tied off? Yeah for sure bro. Splat. Uh oh, woops doesn't bring back the guy you just basically murdered through incompotence.

[u/Fucked_up_Individual]

this is like an audio version of /r/watchpeopledie

[u/Hiftle88]

Wow...this being on /r/videos and not /r/MorbidReality or /r/watchpeopledie made me think there would be some silly haphazard mistake with him accidentally breaking lots of bottles or something...nope. Poor guy.

[u/[deleted]]

Damn this was tragic. I worked in a warehouse a couple summers and heard some horror stories but luckily nothing even close to this ever happened. RIP

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah...I was thinking the guy gets canned.

Turns out he got bottled.

[u/Fattitude]

Random and depressing. Moving on.