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Wired
Glass - Safety Glass? Anything
But !
We
provide the simple inexpensive solution without the
expense of changing your existing wired glass.
Adding our fire rated safety film meets all code standards
for impact resistant safety glass and stops accidents
like the one in the photo on the right. ICC code change
S85-03/04 ends the exemption wired glass has enjoyed
from Federal impact resistant safety standards when used
as a fire barrier in doors.
CBS
Wired Glass video
Report
by Dan Rather
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Photos
courtesy of Advocates For Safe Glass
Greg
Abel’s son, Jarred, put his arm through this wired
glass panel in 2001 while exiting a gym at the
University of Oregon.
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EUGENE, Ore., April
9, 2004
(CBS News) 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.
PROTECTING PEOPLE FIRST FOUNDATION
APPLAUDS NEW WINDOW SAFETY LEGISLATION
The
Protecting People First Foundation supports the
accomplishment of Advocates for Safe Glass founder Greg
Abel, Oregon State Senator Vicki L. Walker, and others
who have brought about legislative changes on the state
and national level. Their efforts to effect
building code changes.... Read entire
story at http://www.safeglass.org/
The
use of dangerous wired glass is now strictly limited in
schools, daycare centers, hospitals and other buildings
across the country, thanks to a three-year fight led by
State Senator Vicki Walker (D-Eugene) and Greg Abel of
Eugene, OR. Read
More...
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March
25, 2004
Shattering the
myth of wired glass
By GREG ABEL
Advocates For Safe Glass
Wired
glass is more dangerous than regular glass when it breaks
because the exposed wires are razor sharp.
The
common misperception is that the embedded wires reinforce
impact strength, when they do just the opposite. The wires
actually weaken the glass and substantially reduce its
impact resistance, so wired glass is in fact only half as
strong as ordinary annealed glass. Wired glass is more
dangerous......http://www.djc.com/news/co/11155147.html
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