Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope glass doors or doors with glass panels
1 report to CPSC, the latest made Nov 3, 2014. A report isn’t a recall.
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At a glance
From SaferProducts.gov, released Oct 25, 2026.
- 1report to CPSC
- Nov 3, 2014the latest report was made
- Nov 3, 2014the earliest
- 0with the company’s comments
- Brand
- None given: no report names a brand, so the group is named for its maker, Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope
- Maker
- Oldcastle BuildingEnvelopeMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
- Product
- Glass doors or doors with glass panelsCPSC’s product type: Glass Doors or Doors With Glass Panels (code 1892), in Home Maintenance and Structures: Doors & Windows
By month
The numbers, as a table
| Month | Reports |
|---|---|
| November 2014 | 1 |
How badly anyone was hurt
- No one hurt 1 CPSC: Incident, No Injury
As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.
The reports, as CPSC published them
Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.
Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.
CPSC, SaferProducts.gov public database export. Released Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily.
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No one hurt Made Nov 3, 2014, sent to the company Mar 27, 2015, published by CPSC Apr 17, 2015
The product, in the report: Glass doors
Re: Safety of Tempered Glass
Dear Sir or Madam:
We would like to call to your attention the fact that one of the tempered glass doors which we had installed in February spontaneously shattered. Our library received a large, private donation which allowed us to remodel the children’s room of our library, and we had the construction company pick out tempered glass doors for us, along with the rest of the project, and they recommended doors manufactured by Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope. These doors were very thick and large, and we had placed some decals placed on them to match the new underwater theme of the children’s room. They were held above the doorway by some metal brackets attached to the top of the doors and slid along a metal bar installed above the doorway on each side to open the doors.
About five weeks after the doors had been installed and the children’s room was back in use, a lady was gently closing one of the doors, and the door broke into both small and large pieces, which fell to the floor. A few small pieces remained attached to the metal brackets at the top of the door (see the enclosed photos). If a small child had been next to the door when it broke, the pieces of glass falling to the floor would almost certainly have caused an injury or even death because some of the pieces were sharp, large and heavy. The glass also rained down several feet because the doors were so large. An Internet search revealed that this type of breakage in tempered glass has happened many times over the last few years to other people and to companies that had installed tempered glass doors or windows, and that there may be a few different reasons for the breakage.
We did not realize that the doors were not warranted by the door manufacturer at the time that the construction work was performed. We also did not realize that there was a chance that the doors could spontaneously break and possibly damage someone. Once the door had broken, we were told that the doors were not under warranty. If we had know that there was a chance that the door could break in this manner, we would not have installed them in the children’s room. We were told that bumping the side of the door with a metal object could cause the weakening of the glass and be the cause for later breakage, but the door was not hit with any metal object.
We would like for you to add our instance of breakage to the tally you keep of spontaneous tempered glass breakages, and we would also like for you to consider imposing a regulation to require manufacturers to put a warning label for consumers on all tempered glass sold in the United States advising them of the possibility of spontaneous breakage so that they will be aware of the possibility of the breakage and possible injury from the pieces of glass.
- Bought
- Feb 1, 2014, about then
- Where
- Centralia, Missouri: Other Public Property/
Office - Who was involved
- Female
- The reporter’s relation to them
- Unspecified
- As this report names them
- made or sold by Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope
- How badly, in CPSC’s words
- Incident, No Injury
CPSC’s disclaimer
Disclaimer: CPSC does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database on SaferProducts.gov, particularly with respect to information submitted by people outside of CPSC.
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Sources
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, SaferProducts.gov public database export.
Released Oct 25, 2026 and checked Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.
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