Not Wearing Eye Protection

Was your friend wearing safety glasses?

No, he wasn't. That event made a big impression on me years ago, and in my world, glasses are good, but a full shield is better. They aren't expensive, especially when compared to medical bills or replacing an eyeball. Besides, it's kind of fun to watch sparks from a grinder bounce off the shield. :D
 
With me it's welding even with the helmet on the slag or splatter just bounces everywhere in the helmet behind and in front of my glasses , even grinding nothing stops it , without complete headwear . My fancy Miller helmet works great with auto dark but no better then my big view snap on. I have seen a full leather China helmet ill get next time I'm able to afford the $15.00 . Tuff summer with no income. I buy good glass lenses for my prescription do my best to protect them but they sure are splattered on both sides close to my eyes I don't like. Little balls of steel embedded.
Going to look into the zennyoptical
 
The worst lesson I learned about eye protection was using a pneumatic nail gun with no glasses--had apiece of metal come off a nail right in my eye. At the time we lived 60 miles to the closest hospital so by the time I got there it had started rusting in my eye. They used a dremel tool grind the rust out!!! Seriously! When the deadening wore off it was about the worst pain I have ever felt--like some one poking needles in my eye every few seconds
 
I learned when I was 18 and using a sawzall to cut some metal about 6" in front of my face. The blade snapped, and I thought nothing of it until I went to clean my glasses (safety glass because they were over-size) and found a chip right over the pupil of my right eye. Ever since, I've made sure my eyeglasses were safety glass material, and when I wear contacts, I have regular safety glasses. Face shield too if I'm on the lathe or grinding.
 
For me it was a chip of wood in the eye (from a chainsaw) that got around my glasses. It hurt like the blazes. I tried to fish it out but no luck so I went to the emergency at the hospital. Doc couldn't find it either. It must have migrated around to the back of the eyeball. They put a dressing on my eye to keep it closed but it continued to burn something fierce. Got no sleep at all that night but during the next day the pain stopped all by itself. Never did find the chip. Thanks for the reminders fellas. It is so easy to let our guard down.
 
I was about 9 working in the shop with my dad. I was planing some wood for the faux beams we were building at the time. And I blew the fines out of the plane and wound up with a scratched cornea. I leaned not to do that. But when safety glasses started hitting the market, My dad bought a pair for both of us.
 
No working tool involved, a mill in the air lifted by a forklift, gust of wind blew some chips into my eye right in the pupil, trip to A&E to have them removed, two repeat visits to have it cleaned - Thank you very much Nye Bevan's NHS :)

Dave H. (the other one)
 
Please do not forget to protect you ears as well, I wish I had worn ear plugs all those years of using grinders,welding and forming metal which involved a lot of hammering pieces to fit, soon after I retired I started hearing a ringing in my ears,yes TINNITUS is real and there's no cure for it, once you have it, you have it for life, I am lucky that my tinnitus is not severe , that annoying hissing/ringing noise has driven some to attempt suicide ,believe it or not.
 
Dad used to have a pair of safety glasses saved from an eye injury, may have been an face injury, where a large face mill chip had embedded itself into the edge of the frames, but not the lense. I'm sure the person whom was wearing them was burned on the cheek severely from that blue chip! That chip had to be about 1-1/2 long and at least 3/8 wide and thick! He had made it into a display and mounted on the safety wall at the place he worked at back then. Got a safety award for it too!
 
Yep, I bought a full face shield, then discovered I couldn't wear it with ear protectors. The head bands conflict with each other. So it hangs on a nail, unused. I do reply on eye googles all the time.
 
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