This is a good one. Swimming pools are another, but this is probably better.
Pillows kill people. Look what happened to Scalia. Riiight.
We were buying a living room set with matching coffee table having a glass top. Told them the glass top would not work because we had an infant daughter. They switched it to solid wood. While I had not heard of issues with with children and glass tops I just knew she would crawl on top of the table.
We had a patio table with a glass top. One hot day it just shattered. Fortunately no one was near it. When we first bought it I wondered about the safety, now with that experience it’s really a foolish and dangerous buy.
When glass tabletops are outlawed, only outlaws will have glass tabletops.
Don’t forget swimming pools and kids.
Time for Federal Registration of glass table tops, it’s for the children after all.........
Tempered glass is much more common than laminated glass. Tempered glass without a plastic layer laminated into it is harder to break than non-tempered glass. But often, part of a pane of tempered glass (not laminated) will break into one or more long, narrow pieces. It can be quite dangerous.
Also, some of the glass will often remain in a frame. The edge of it will be sharp. Some children sometimes play rough or run in the house. We all know that. And many children have run into glass storm doors (often installed in place of screen doors). Many adults have walked into them. Those doors are easily breakable unless replaced with doors with polycarbonate or similar material instead of glass. Same with tables.