Bacardi Bottling Cited for Failing to Train Temporary Worker Crushed by Machinery

Bacardi Bottling, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based rum maker, has been cited for 12 alleged safety violations with proposed fines totalling $192,000 after a 21-year-old temporary worker died during his first day on the job, the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Feb. 11.

Lawrence Daquan Davis was cleaning glass under the hoist of a palletizer machine at Bacardi’s Jacksonville facility in August 2012, when another employee restarted the machine causing Davis to be crushed by it, the agency said in a Feb. 11 statement.

OSHA charged that Bacardi had not trained Davis, a temporary worker, on how to lockout ...