Shell cracked but not membrane??

I've had a broody hen on four eggs for 20 days, and 3 hatched, but when I moved her out of her nesting box into her brooder with her babies, I saw her fourth egg in the very back of the nesting box, alot of the shell looks like it was peeled off/fell off?? It was cold to the touch and at first I thought it was dead, but I could feel the chick squirming through the membrane, and it yelled at me, lol. I put it in a incubator wrapped in a warm damp cloth. But where do I go from there?? How do I help it? Do I help it? I've hatched HUNDREDS maybe even a thousand eggs out of the incubator (first time letting a broody hen do it) and I've never had something like this. How in the world could this of happened? I have pictures but I'm not sure how to upload them
I've had one like this a few years ago, but in a little worse shape, as it was left behind by the hen when she left the nest with her other chicks. When I found it, it was ice cold.

I did nothing more than put it in the incubator with the humidity up to 70%. It took nearly 3 days, but it finally made it out of there. The cold must've set it back a bit.

His mom rejected him, and it was winter, so we raised him in the house.

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