The Boston Licensing Board will consider forcing bars to give up glassware and drinks in glass bottles if their patrons get injured in attacks with them.

"It's seems like we're seeing a lot of that now," board Chairwoman Christine Pulgini said following two hearings today, one involving a patron at Minibar who appeared to attack another with a glass, another involving a patron at a Langham Hotel bar who now faces criminal charges for allegedly smacking another patron in the back of the head with a beer bottle.

Pulgini noted another incident at the Boston Beer Garden in South Boston in December, in which a man suffered possibly permanent brain injuries after being punched in the head by a man clenching a glass salt shaker. In 2010, a man died when somebody threw a glass beer mug in a fight at a Fenway bar, which shattered and sent a large shard into the man's neck.

Pulgini said the board will likely meet soon to consider a new policy in which bars and restaurants whose patrons wield glassware or bottles as weapons in fight have their licenses amended to include a ban on the service of drinks in glass.

"Public safety is of the utmost importance to the board," she said.

In the first of two glass-related hearings today, the board heard about an incident at Minibar on Exeter Street involving a man jealous his fiancee was talking to another guy and a glass. As the night wore down on Dec. 28, the man went after the chatty man, first with his fists and then with a glass, which he threw at him, a police report states. A bar attorney and bartender, however, said that while the victim was bonked with a glass, that only happened after the two battlers and the bartender, trying to break up the fight, fell to the ground. The victim fled before police arrived; witnesses and the bartender disputed the offended man's assertion that he was forced into action when he saw the other guy lift up his fiancee's shirt and grope her.

Pulgini askd bar attorney Karen Simao why Minibar was even using glassware. It's a high-end place, Simao said, adding the issue is not the method of attack, but whether Minibar could have foreseen it would happen, which she said it couldn't have, because it was a slow night and the few people left in the place were all at the bar and seemed to be quiet and having a good time, until suddenly the man launched his attack.

"It might be high end but [the patrons] are not acting high end," Pulgini replied.

In another hearing, the Langham Hotel on Franklin Street had to answer for an incident in which some sort of dispute over one guest's wife led to another guest smashing him in the back of the head with a beer bottle, sending him to the hospital. The alleged beer-bottle smasher now faces a criminal charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, thanks in part to hotel staffers, who changed the code on the man's room, so that when he showed up at the front desk later that morning to complain, workers were able to stall him long enough to summon police, who arrested him.