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.