S4 · 04/25
2017 ·
SSI Schaefer · Lebedyan, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia
| Company | SSI Schaefer |
| Category | warehouse automation |
| Type | malfunction |
| Date | 04/25 2017 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | Lebedyan, Lipetsk Oblast, Russia · Lebedyansky juice plant |
| Severity | S4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding) |
| Scale | 1 storage facility; 28+ million liters of product lost |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | TASS |
A storage racking system serviced and maintained by SSI Schaefer collapsed at PepsiCo's Lebedyansky juice facility in Russia, releasing over 28 million liters of juice into the Don River; a Moscow court later found the collapse was caused by uneven loading and rack/crane beams unable to bear the load, and ordered SSI Schaefer to pay insurer Ingosstrakh $42.4 million.