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  • Spago's Skylight Shatters at Lunch
    May 2, 2013
    During lunch on May 2 at Wolfgang Puck's Spago in Beverly Hills, a skylight cracked and glass fell on at least two customers, including chef Bernhard Mairinger, according to The Hollywood Reporter."I was literally sitting right underneath it," Mairinger said to the Reporter. "It’s two glasses on top of each other. The bottom one cracked...and fell down on [my girlfriend and me]. It was the two of...

  • Kawneer Dedicates New Floodwall at Bloomsburg Facility
    March 27, 2013
    Kawneer Company Inc. dedicated a new floodwall at its Bloomsburg, Pa., facility, designed to protect the facility and surrounding area from potential storm damage. The project was funded through a partnership between the town of Bloomsburg, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development, local and state government, and Kawneer's parent company, Alcoa....

  • Xiamen Calls for Curtain Wall Safety Checks and Restrictions
    March 27, 2013
    The Construction and Administration Bureau of Xiamen, China, plans to introduce new rules to standardize and restrict the use of glass curtain walls in new buildings, according to a report from Xiamen News. The bureau also will require builders and property owners to conduct safety checks and repairs on curtain-wall projects located within the city limits that are more than 10 years old.

  • Glazier killed in tragic accident at Florida job site
    November 29, 2012
    Glazier Luis Adam Escobar, 43, of Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., died Wednesday after falling 25 feet from a ladder at the Terry Concert Hall in Jacksonville, where he was fixing a broken window, according to a November 29 Jacksonville.com report.An employee of Duval Glass and Miror, Escobar was apparently cutting or replacing caulk when he fell. 

  • State investigating death at Trulite plant in Youngsville, N.C.
    August 9, 2011
    The North Carolina State Department of Labor is investigating a Friday death at a Trulite glass plant in Youngsville, N.C., according to an Aug. 8 WRAL.com report.DOL spokesman Neal O'Briant told WRAL.com that an electrician with Act Electric of Wake Forest was working on a lift inside the glass plant when a crane moving a pane of glass collided with the lift. The electrician fell to the...

  • UK glass factory fined $18,000 for accident
    July 22, 2011
    UK glass manufacturer Nicholls and Clarke Glass has been fined more than £11,000 (about $18,000) after a Dunstable man's arm was cut to the bone when a glass lite shattered in his hand. According to a July 22 Dunstable Today report, the man picked up a large glass lite that cracked and shattered without warning. One of the shards lacerated his right forearm above his wrist guard,...

  • Update on glass removal at W Austin
    June 30, 2011
    Workers remove glass panels from the balconies at the W Austin after fallouts and breakages. Officials from developer Stratus Properties provided an update June 29 on the removal of almost 1,000 panes of glass from the W Austin Hotel and Residences following several instances of fallout and breakage.According to Beau Armstrong, CEO, Stratus Properties, as of 4 p.m. on June 29, about 600 glass...

  • Major glass removal begins at W Austin Hotel after spontaneous breakages
    June 30, 2011
    Crews are removing almost 1,000 panes of balcony glass from the W Austin Hotel and Residences following several instances of spontaneous breakage, according to a June 29 article in the Austin American-Statesman. The first instance of breakage at the 37-story hotel occurred June 10, when two glass panes crashed to the W's pool area, injuring four people. Three additional panels fell June 27, and...

  • The case of the exploding glass table
    June 22, 2011
    During a Father's Day dinner this June, Arvada, Colo., resident Nancy Passarella and her family found themselves picking up the pieces after their Martha Stewart Living glass patio table suddenly exploded, sending flying glass and food everywhere.Her son and his girlfriend were cut by the flying glass, according to a June 21 Fox 31 Denver report. FOX31 Denver learned that hundreds of people have...

  • Falling glass in container truck kills Florida worker
    May 5, 2011
    A construction worker in Key Biscayne, Fla., died May 4 after some hurricane glass fell on him inside a container truck. Rescuers were forced to cut a hole in the side of the container to reach the trapped worker; however, it was too late, according to a same-day gantdaily.com report.
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