The meter survived shipment to my house across the ocean. I would guess it saw some pretty big changes in temperature, pressure and vibration.
I already gave the example of driving across a farm with the meter loose in the back of a pickup truck. That's real world, it could happen.
In your world maybe, not in mine.
The worst shock my meters get is when they flip over on the bench in my lab.
My 6 year old Agilent U1252A shows different wear. The blue "foam" is desintegrating. I had to replaced the common bus, the probes fell apart (the foam, became real sticky), The testleads from the black lead broke several times just at the connector. Very strange leads, there is a sort of black stuff around the core, looks like graphite or so. But I use them every day so no complains, I do like them because the resistance is very low and stable. I wonder if the stuff is there to lower the triboelectric effect. HP did something like that for the testleads (i do not have) of the HP4329 ( I do have:
http://www.pa4tim.nl/?p=2269 ) I replaced the 9V nimh twice and repaired the charger.
Most important for me, it is still spot on.
Safety is probably not as big thing for my job as for others. But I'm glad it is safe. As long as it survives stupid things like probing 350VDC in a smps still in diode or resistance mode I'm happy. I have 2 HV probes and for current I use shunts, clampmeters, current probes and a fluxgate probe.
The big 440mA fuse of my Agilent failed, I have no clue how, maybe when the charger or a battery failed. I never use it for current. So I rebuild the big 440mA fuse with parts of a panel-fuse holder and dropped a small glass-fuse in it. The only current it sees is from the charger.
After Joes videos I'm thinking about a Brymen 869s as a second handmeter. I'm not a Fluke fanboy, I could cuff up lot of money I probably bought a Keysight (one with the oled screen).