"Art" wrote in message
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I know someone who lost an arm falling into a non tempered glass table top.
Go with tempered. You can have it custom made locally. Often done. My
elderly parents had one made to protect a wood table 3 years ago. They
came, made a template, and came back with the glass.



How could your friend have lost an arm? A recent poster said there was no
danger from the glass, and that most houses have lots and lots of glass.
How can you both be right?

I had a friend, now deceased from old age, who walked into a sliding glass
door which broke. It was in a big apartment project in Houston. It was not
tempered. One large shard cut his arm seriously and he very nearly bled to
death. What a horrible mess. He got a handsome settlement, and the cost of
retrofitting all the glass was enormous.

Accidents are not all that common. Yet look around at all the people.
Accidents cause people. And all the time, you hear of some fluke of an
accident where someone suffers or is killed. The stupid ones are the
preventable ones, like using untempered glass.

Steve