A Day's Work: Safety Training for Temp Workers Would Prevent Many Injuries and Deaths

Lawrence Daquan "Day" Davis, 21, died tragically on his first day of work at his first job, as a "temp worker" at a Bacardi bottling facility in Jacksonville, Florida. He began his shift within 15 minutes of arriving at the facility, after completing some paperwork and watching a very brief safety video. Although working in a bottling facility is a dangerous job, Davis and his coworkers received no real training about the potential hazards or proper safety procedures. Within hours, Davis was asked to help clean up some broken bottles caused by a machine malfunction. While he was under the machine picking up the glass, the equipment was turned back on, and he was crushed to death. Davis' story is a poignant example of an eager and hard-working individual killed on-the-job because no one cared to train him, despite legal requirements to do so, before placing him in harm's way. This troubling reality is illustrated in a new, eye-opening documentary, A Day's Work, which shares Davis' story and the shocking practices of the temp industry that have caused his and so many others' untimely deaths.