Vale Fox Distillery, a whiskey producer in Poughkeepsie, New York, suffered a major loss on December 19, 2023, when metal racks holding dozens of barrels of whiskey collapsed in its distilling room. The collapse caused sixty barrels to fall, breaking fifty-two of them and resulting in the loss of aging single malt whiskey. The lost whiskey, if bottled and sold, would have been worth more than $2.5 million. The incident also damaged the interior wall of a storage room.