SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Explosion / rupture

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20160206-C98CA-2147421984. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: IKEA POKAL. Incident: Two Ikea 9oz Pokal drinking glasses have shattered into hundreds (if not thousands) of small pieces under unexpected circumstances. One glass shattered inside a closed cabinet. No one was home. Our dishes had been put away hours before and were totally cold from being in the dishwasher overnight so there was no change in temperature and no one touched the glasses. However, it exploded with such force that it went inside of other dishes not only on the shelf it was sitting on but also on the shelf above it! (This first incident was 12/15/15 and I have photographs showing the bits of glass spread throughout the cabinet.) With the second incident (estimated date below), someone was removing a glass from the cabinet and bumped an adjacent glass. It was not with a force that you would have expected it to break but again rather than a simple break it shattered into innumerable pieces. The pieces continued to crack and break apart as they lay (untouched) on the countertop.