In science one year, we did a test of dropping a water bottle from different heights over a Pringle, and we had to protect the Pringle with a paper. But how would increasing the height increase the force is the mass and acceleration is the same?
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The thing that matters more for crushing is the total energy, not the force.
The energy transferred to the thing you are dropping is given by the force x the distance travelled in the direction of that force (the maths is a bit more complicated but we won’t worry about that for now).
Drop something from twice the height it gains twice the energy, it has twice the energy to dissipate into whatever it hits.
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