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Coors Brewing Shutdown

Event Year
2004
Reliability
Confirmed
Country
United States
Industry
Food & Beverage

Description

A current employee with access to the bottling control system, inadvertently changed a timer for a maintenance device on a filler.  Instead of squirting grease into the bearing every 20 minutes, it was set to once every 8 hours.  Consequently, the bearings froze.  The line that fills the bottles at 1,200 per minute stopped.

Impact

Operations were shut-down resulting in $100,000 loss.