Read Consulting was asked to analyze an accident in which an employee was lifting a Corrugated box containing 12 bottles of soda water from which a bottle fell through the bottom; it exploded, and caused an eye injury. The cardboard container was being lifted (as expected by the box manufacturer) with the box’s hand holes. […]
Read Consulting Failure Analysis Blog
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Winery Bottle Manufacturing Defects
Read Consulting, a glass failure analysis laboratory, was hired to analyze defective glass bottles. These bottles arrived from the manufacturer with defects. Because only still wine is to be bottled, none of the defects discovered can cause cracking. Below are details of the two prevalent bottle defects from the glass bottle manufacturer. Blank Tear […]
Product Liability Design Defect: Glass Candle Holder
A glass chimney intended to hold a candle failed at the bottom, and injured the user. The glass chimney has several design defects. It is made with high thermal expansion soda lime glass (borosilicate glass is a better choice), and it is closed on the top (the top should be open to allow heat […]
Failed Tempered Glass Washing Machine Lid
Traditionally, a top loading clothes washer has a steel top. This means that a person can safely put part of their weight on the washer top. Recently, some manufacturers have replaced the steel top with a piece of tempered glass (on the order of 1/8” thick) darkened on the bottom with a glass frit coating […]
Glass Bottle Failure Analysis: An Exploding Beer Bottle
Read Consulting LLC failure analysis laboratory was asked to determine why a 12 oz beer bottle “exploded” and injured a bar patron. Very little of the bottle was preserved. Fortunately a major portion of the bottle base was saved and it contained one half of the failure origin. In this case the glass failure analysis […]
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