[marktwain]

Like yours, all table tops are now required by law to be tempered and break into small shards that are not able to cut you.

Very interesting. The authors of the tabletop paper seem unaware of such a law.

Do you know where it might be found?

The authors of the paper say the deaths are primarily from cutting and penetration injuries, not blunt trauma.

[familyop]

Tempered glass can also break into long, thin shards. It’s not like glass that is also laminated. And fairly large pieces of tempered glass, although cracked throughout, can remain in a frame. The edges of such a piece can cut someone in an accident.

[bert]

Well, it may be a Tennessee law. The last time ours broke, we couldn’t just get another one cut, it had to be tempered.

I got it from now defunct Pier 1