Safety Glass: Anything But?

(CBS) Instead of blocking a shot, high school senior Brett Turman shattered his lifelong dreams.

The accident cost him the full use of his right hand and any chance for a college basketball scholarship. Twelve-year-old Zech Darmanin crashed through a window while rollerblading.

"I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I'm going to die,'" says Darmanin.

He lost half his blood, and as CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes reports, he's still in bandages.

"It was just horrible," says his mother Lisa Darmanin.

She says it looked like he got cut with a chainsaw.

"It didn't look like he got cut with glass," she says.

The young men were injured by wired glass used in schools, hospitals and athletic facilities as a fire deterrent. Often referred to as safety glass, its critics call it anything but.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/09/eveningnews/consumer/main611228.shtml

Isn't it amazing how something like this doesn't come out until the year 2004!

Very very different.
Wired glass is not safety glass. Someone needs to get their terminology right.

Wire glass was required in all Fire Rated Doors, the wire Iain the Glass to keep the glass together whenever the heat from any fire gets to hot so that the glass breaks.

Safety glass are either Tempered or Laminated glass. Tempered is heat treated to give the glass great strength and heat Resistance, but when it breaks it breaks into millions of little pieces. The glass in your car doors and back glass are almost always tempered.

Laminated glass is two pieces of ordinarily glass bonded together by a plastic middle. It is "shatter proof" and as such used in Windshields in your car (and some other windows mostly in cars older than 1960). Laminated glass is generally not considered heat resistant (through is often used in skylights so if the glass ever breaks it is held together by the Plastic).

This sounds like Wired glass. Unlike Tempered Glass, wire glass can be cut to whatever size that is needed just like regular plate glass and laminated Glass (Tempered glass has to be cut BEFORE it is tempered, after it is tempered, Tempered glass can NOT be cut).

Thus this sounds like wire glass, Tempered glass is hard to break by just hitting it (On the other hand if you try to CUT tempered glass, it shatters into a million Pieces. Tempered glass is very strong on being hit and heated, but weak when hit by a sharp object)

wired glass.