Yes, you can break dry ice with a hammer, or leave it in the bag and drop it from about waist high onto concrete. Handle the pieces with tongs.
Way back when, one of our neighbors was a shrimper and we got loads of shrimp at low cost each year and froze most of it. Took coolers full of it to West and North Texas when we visited relatives 8 hrs away and used small pieces of dry ice with no problems, and that was in the 'not very good' coolers they had in the 60s.
As others stated, don't put it directly on meat or directly on meat wrapping.