A Hand Through an Awning Window in Jan Juc, and a Trip to Hospital
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A homeowner in Jan Juc accidentally put their hand through a glass awning window. The cuts were severe enough to need an urgent hospital visit.
The accident was ordinary. The glass was not.
Putting a hand into a window is a small, everyday mistake. What decides whether it ends with a bruise or with stitches is which glass is in the frame.
This window was old non-safety glass. It broke into large sharp pieces, and a hand travelling into it met edges that behave like blades.
Safety glass in the same opening changes the outcome entirely. It either holds together on the interlayer or breaks into blunt granules, and neither of those cuts the way annealed glass does.
Same day, replaced in laminated
Our glaziers attended the same day, removed the damaged panel safely, made the area secure and installed new laminated safety glass.
In a house with children this matters twice over, because the windows most likely to be walked into or fallen against are exactly the low ones like this.
Worth checking in your own house
If a window is old enough that you do not know what glass is in it, it is old enough to be worth asking. The upgrade costs a great deal less than the hospital visit, and this job is why we keep saying it.
Before
After
The job in short
- Site: Residential, Jan Juc
- Incident: Homeowner put a hand through an awning window, severe cuts, hospital treatment
- Original glass: Old non-safety glass
- Replacement: Laminated safety glass, same day
