2 Investigators: Glass Shower Doors Can Shatter Without Warning

September 27, 2012 10:11 PM " CHICAGO (CBS) – If your shower door is made of glass, you may endure injuries, a big clean up and thousands of dollars down the drain.

CBS 2′s Dave Savini first exposed tempered-glass patio tables suddenly exploding. Now he found the same happening with shower doors.

Dorothy Malinski’s shower door suddenly exploded while her mother was bathing.

“I heard this big bang, this big boom,” said Malinski. “I couldn’t enter all the way because there’s glass all over the counter, in the sink, on the floor.”

Her mother was cut on her hands and face.

Even though tempered-glass shower doors are supposed to break into small pieces — to prevent injuries from larger, sharper pieces of glass — they can break in bigger shards.

That is what happened to Larry Kucharik, who was injured while cleaning up the shattered glass from his shower door.

“I just tapped the top of it and a chunk of it came down and hit my ankle,” said Kucharik, whose ankle is still scarred. “It started bleeding, and there was a lot of blood all over the floor.”

The U.S "

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