The Circumstances And Prevention Of Bar-Glass Injury

Local surveillance in the UK (Bristol and South London) accident and emergency departments began in the mid-1980's. Results found that about 10% of assault injuries had been sustained from bar glassware. A subsequent multi-centre survey found that the glasses mostly implicated were straight-sided, 1-pint capacity glasses (nonic) and, importantly, that 75% of injuries were facial. The survey also showed that, contrary to expectation, most glasses had not been broken prior to use as a weapon but had been thrust whole at someone's face or had been thrown across a bar.