Plate Glass Injuries

Known for decades are hazards related to non-tempered glass. However, individuals in the thousands continue to sustain catastrophic, debilitating, and fatal injuries due to manufacturers who refuse to distribute glass with safety coatings. This can greatly diminish any chance to sustain injuries if the glass happens to shatter.

Plate glass personal injury attorneys normally represent a number of clients whose injuries could’ve been prevented, or would have only been minor had it not been for non-tempered glass.

Since the 1960s, safety glass has been present, so there is not much of an excuse for manufacturers and property owners to select the use of these materials, which can endanger many individuals.

Large, sharp and jagged pieces of non-tempered glass are the result when it is broken or shattered in an accident.

Sustained injuries as a result of glass can cause some of the most catastrophic, fatal, and devastating wounds due to the sharp glass, and how it can break easily into smaller pieces.

Many individuals sustain additional complications and injuries when the glass is broken after it enters the body, or when physicians have a difficult time extracting glass without destroying major nerves, muscle tissue, or blood vessels.

The term referred to in the use of glass, which is produced for the use of a safety glazing is referred to as tempered glass.

It is very usual as a kind of automotive glass, and diminishes any chance of sustained injury due to the glazing, which causes the glass plate to shatter into a multitude of tiny pieces, and are less probable to result in catastrophic harm to the victim.


Glass of smaller pieces are less probable to break after contact into the skin, and aren’t as jagged or sharp as non-tempered glass forms.

Non-tempered glass is not as strong as tempered glass, which means tempered glass is less probable to break in the first place.

Since 1977, federal regulations have existed to require contractors and property owners to install safety glass in locations, which can be labeled hazardous, such as an exit door, sliding patio doors, and windows which may be used to exit during an emergency.

Glass that is non-tempered are still populating buildings constructed prior to 1977. Vastly, it is still used in many products, even over safety concerns.

The safety of residents and consumers should never be neglected over the cost stipulated to offer a safe environment to individuals who are invited onto someone’s property.

Premises liability attorneys have the expertise and experience to assist clients who sustained catastrophic lacerations due to what could have been otherwise minor accidents if windows and doors weren’t made of non-tempered glass.

Injuries sustained from certain incidents include the following: permanent scarring; deep lacerations which cause rapid blood loss, tissue damage, and damage to the nerves; paralysis or feeling lost due to the affected limb; internal injuries as a result of fragments of glass, which remain inside the body; wounds which may become infected, that require immediate medical attention, and likely amputation; and death.

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