2 Investigators: Exploding Glass Oven Doors

January 3, 2013 9:28 PM " (CBS) — Around your house you may see numerous items made of tempered glass, including your oven door, television stand, shower door and patio table.

The lack of mandatory manufacturing standards for this type of glass could put you at risk, CBS 2′s Dave Savini reports.

Josi Rein says she set her oven on the cleaning cycle. It heated up and then the door glass suddenly shattered.

“There was hot glass all over the place,” she says.

Rein says parts of her wood floor was scorched and even buckled.

Television stands made of glass are another product known to shatter. Ken and Karen Rimkus say they came home one day to find their glass television stand had broken into pieces.

Ken Rimkus says the glass flew all over the room and could have been dangerous had someone been home.

“There should be some standard,” Karen Rimkus says. “Because I do think it’s the safety for the consumer and for children.”

Around the country, other glass television stands and glass oven doors from varying manufacturers have shattered for no apparent reason. That includes an oven owned by Bonnie Blair "

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