> >She had been holding the glass to one side while stepping down = > >the 3-step porch, so the glass was not in front of her as such. And she = > >said she didn't bump it or anything - it just literally exploded on her! = > > There were "cat food kibbles" of glass *everywhere*. > > That is tempered glass all right! And your wife is lucky it was! If non > tempered glass had done a similar thing, it would have broken into large, > sharper than razor sharp, shards that would have cut her much worse than the > little ones from tempered glass. > > That is one of the reasons tempered glass is used.
But I wonder... because I have myself broken larger "window pane style" glass fragments, and while it does splinter into ultra-sharp parts, they tended to follow gravity more quickly. I can see that a falling splinter could have cut her pretty badly, agreed. However, this incident had glass flying like it was shot from a cannon. She was just carrying the thing, not throwing it around like an olympic event or anything like that - and I found glass as far as 20 feet away in a classic explosion pattern in several different directions from where she was standing. Everything from cubic-centimeter size down to tweezer-and-magnifying-glass size fragments (which I needed to extract some of it from her... whew!) Anyway, it was just a most memorable and scary experience for the both of us, I hope no one else has the same opportunity! RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
