Apple Park, the massive donut-shaped Apple headquarters that Apple finished building last year, is an architectural marvel. The building makes extensive use of massive, floor-to-ceiling glass panels, giving the illusion that the building blends seamlessly into the surrounding forest.
But when Apple started letting employees use it in January, they discovered a big problem: they kept running into glass windows and doors. In the first few days, three people suffered injuries serious enough to require calls to 911.
"I walked into a glass door on the first floor of Apple Park when I was trying to go outside," one person said in a January 4 911 call obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle. He said he hit his head but didn't suffer serious bleeding.
Two other emergency calls from Apple's campus were made two days earlier on January 2—which the Chronicle says is the day Apple employees started moving into the new headquarters. "We had an individual who ran into a glass wall pane and they hit their head," an Apple caller said on one of the January 2 calls. "They have a small cut on their head and they are bleeding, slightly disoriented."
"We had an employee, he was on campus and he walked into a glass window, hitting his head," another caller said on the same day. The caller said the middle-aged employee "has a little bit of a cut on the eyebrow," and that the injury was likely serious enough to require stitches.
