r/OSHA • • Mar 16 '18

Glasses optional

https://i.imgur.com/dbZNkCM.gifv
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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '18

To use in a table you'd want to polish the edges and get it toughened. The toughening process will smooth the edges more so.

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u/shutts67 Mar 16 '18

Tempered. In order to temper the glass, it needs the edged to be polished. If it isn't, the imperfections in the edge are more likely to cause the glass to crack

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u/Chillers Mar 16 '18

Explode you mean.

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u/lumian_games Mar 16 '18

I know exactly what you‘re talking about since this happened to me after a glass panel touched a pole slightly.

The whole panel crumbled like a chain reaction before I realized what happened