Never had this happen to me before. Bewildering.
My son and I were asked to move a large sheet of glass for a friend. Take it out of the garage, get it out of the way so they could clean. They were going to sell/give away/trash it. Glass was easily a 4'x8' sheet, same size as two sheets of drywall in front of it. Easily 1/2" thick (although I didn't measure).
I placed some cardboard on concrete floor to give a little cushioning. We kept glass standing on it's edge (4' vertical, 8' horizontal). Son picked up one end, and I the other. We slid a foot or two to move it into a better position then picked it up to move. I was carrying off to one side, sort of like a bunny rabbit with both hands next to eachother. Son on other end had hands in like an alligator grip squeezed between chest muscles. Glass did not touch anything (it was all out of the way) or get dropped.
But, we moved a step or two when, "Pop, crash!" Glass completely exploded in our hands. Shards looked more like auto glass: cubic. After we explored a bit, we did see some traditional, small 1/8" shards here & there sticking on our arms.
I had a couple cuts on my nose bridge and near my eye (right hand, when suddenly un-weighted, punched me in the eye--very scary when holding broken glass!). But amazingly no other injuries.
So: why would the glass just disintegrate like this without us hitting it on anything? Anyone else have this happen?
Submitted March 28, 2016 at 10:48AM by mkadam68 http://ift.tt/1pTjJTL
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