I am glad no one was hurt.
I had a situation as well, or rather 2 of them.
The first was I lost 1/2 a batch of a Pumpkin Hazelnut I made. My apprentice picked up the case of bottles and boom the bottom dropped out of it, glass and mead everywhere in the kitchen. My apprentice was not in shoes. So I directed her to stay still. Swept, blotted up mead, got glass up and the like. Not her fault. The bottom of the box was weak and not suited to the weight. ALLWAYS check your boxes for integrity before you bottle.
The second loss I was a bit more prepared. I picked up a brew bucket, moved it over to the counter by the sink that I rack from and the bottom cracked open. Quick thinking and knowing that I had just cleaned and sanitiezed the sink, I swung it over, popped in the stoper of the sink and then racked from the sink as the bucket let it all go. I think that I lost only about a six pack's worth of 12 oz bottles from a 6 gal batch of Peach Vanilla Nutmeg Mead. It could have been bad. I remember to clean and sanitize my kitchen sink and counters from then on. And keep a few plastic trash bags around and open incase it happens. I am just lucky that the brew bucket didn't let go on the carpet or in my wood floor of a dining area.
So, Yes we all have them. I am sorry that the loss of a glass carboy and mead. So glad that no one got lacerated by the shards of glass. That being said, I still will use glass carboys over plastic Better Bottles. I like them better. Just a big reminder to be very careful when lifting and racking and the like.
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