And it feels just like I'm walking on broken glass
Last week, Ben Popken at Consumerist ran a bit on the risks of glass-crowned tables. Under normal circumstances, I go away the product protection stuff to different people however this object gave me pause.
What caused the Consumerist piece changed into the news that an eleven-year-old female in Rhode Island had recently died from lacerations sustained while she fell into a tumbler-crowned coffee table. Here's the story from the Providence Journal. I imply, I've visible Kill Bill and Kill Bill 2 and I realize that tumbler coffee tables shatter when fights get away in films, however it never took place to me that they may do real harm in non-film conditions.
Ben connected to a Consumer Reports article on the equal subject matter where I came across this:
Each 12 months an predicted 20,000 people, maximum of them youngsters, are handled in emergency rooms for accidents sustained from glass fixtures. In a mean 12 months, 3 youngsters die. The injuries can flip critical in moments. These grim data brought about Consumers Union to make a presentation to ASTM-International in overdue 2005 recommending that a safety standard be developed to deal with the threat posed through glass in furnishings. Three years later, a preferred is currently beneath improvement.
This issue has escaped the attention of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, an employer that would easily repair this trouble. A requirement to use tempered glass in furniture could actually dispose of all extreme laceration injuries. The CPSC presently requires using protection glass in shower doorways and storm doors, but not glass tables.
Who knew that there were no rules in area regarding using tempered glass in fixtures? I'd continually assumed that seeing that things like bathe doors and oven fronts had to use tempered glass, that furniture might ought to as properly. It would not wonder me that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has been asleep at the wheel about this both. They've more or much less been in a coma for the closing eight years. This definitely stinks.
Apparently a few producers use tempered glass for their table tops and some don't. You cannot tell from looking at a sheet of glass whether it's tempered or now not, so that you need to ask. Don't purchase something till you've got a strong answer, or even then I'd err at the aspect of warning. Be cautious with the things, tempered or not. I suggest, who knew?