Eventually, no matter how careful a person is in the kitchen, accidents happen. Whether you cut a finger prepping some vegetables or drop a glass putting it away, they are unavoidable.
Specifically, for those of your have forgotten your high school physics lessons, be careful what you do with hot dishes, especially glass ones, after pulling them out of an oven. Never place them under cold water in the sink, even to clean them, until they are completely cool. Also, be careful not to place them on damp surfaces; the water and the relative cold will cause the glass the fracture, like so:
When we have hot dishes in our hands, we often do not have the time to dry off or clear a space to set it down. All we think of it that we can feel the heat beginning to eat through the towel or hot pad we are using.The best place to put them (where I normally place them, except it was in use) is the stove-top.
The caution: No matter how safe your food may look, no matter how clean you think that you may have gotten it, do not try to eat it. Throw it away, clean up the glass (damp paper towel works wonders with the smaller shards), and either cook again or buy takeout for the night. Shards of glass have a way of hiding in carpets and foods so that we think they are safe, but in reality the inconvenience is not worth the risk of swallowing slivers of glass.
Farm to Kitchen to Table 