Company fined after worker fractures skull in glass accident
Vizor Tempered Glass Ltd., United Kingdom, received $100,000 in fines for safety violations after a worker fractured his skull from falling into a container full of broken glass, according to a Dec. 6 article from icWales. A gust of wind caught a glass pane Rick Walters, 38, was moving into the container. Walters fell into the container and the 160-pound glass pane fell on him … read more

Two injured by glass debris in New York
Two pedestrians were injured Dec. 3 when 40-miles-per-hour winds carried glass or debris from buildings in Midtown Manhattan. Officials speculate that the glass fell from a window on the 17th floor of the new New York Times building and from a 50-story building on the Avenue of the Americas … read more

Man dies clearing snow off glass roof
A man clearing snow from the roof of the Crystal Court in Minneapolis slipped and fell through the glass Dec. 5, plunging five to six stories to the atrium below. Police report that the incident was an accident … read more

European commissioner speaks out about glass cartel
“The companies involved knew all too well that what they were doing was illegal,” said Neelie Kroes at a Nov. 28 press conference in Brussels, according to a Dec. 10 article from eduBourse. Kroes, the commissioner for competition policy, condemned the four companies involved in the 2004-05 price fixing: Guardian Industries Corp. of Auburn Mills, Mich.; Japanese Asahi Glass Company’s subsidiary AGC Flat Glass Europe, formerly Glaverbel; United Kingdom’s Pilkington, acquired June 2006 by Nippon Sheet Glass of Tokyo; and Paris-based Saint-Gobain. The “final victims were once again European consumers, who had to pay the price for the glass used in buildings, private homes and apartments,” Kroes said. … read more

Decrease in glass production contributes to manufacturing employment decline
Though total non-farm jobs increased by 94,000 in November, the manufacturing employment sector lost 11,000 jobs and construction employment lost 24,000. Analysts blamed the losses on the declines in residential building and in production of wood, concrete and glass products for construction … read more

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