Wear your glasses!!!

[e-tek]

A cautionary tale.....

I wasn't wearing my safeties - it was just a quick hole! Then the shard at the end hit me in the cheek....and stuck. Now I keep a pair of glasses on the press!

 

[willymakeit]

Glad to see your ok.

 

[vdubnluvn]

i had to have a shard cut out of my eye once, i wear prescription glasses now but before those and after the shard i kept a pair on every workbench.

having a 1/8 inch shard submerged in your eyeball is some extreme discomfort, especially after you mess with it yourself for 2 hours. doc said ill always have occasional wierd vision in that eye. mom also said wakkin off in the toolshed to much will make me go blind. im not sure which one is true.

 

[MScott]

Beware of the glasses that are like eye glasses with a little shield on the sides too. I was using one recently while doing some grinding and a piece of metal bounced off my cheek and into my eye. I had to have it cut out and have, as a result, lost some vision in that eye. I only use the goggle type now so there is no way metal can get under it. Can't be too careful with your vision.

 

[Torque1st]

Beware of the glasses that are like eye glasses with a little shield on the sides too.

I have used that type and I had several hot chips go over the top and lodge against my cheek. They have left several scars. The goggle types are best. I had the close fitting ones too...

 

[Rolling_Thunder]

I have a pair on my press, my grinder, and a couple of pairs in my toolbox!

 

[NUTTSGT]

Wearing safety protection comes with age I guess. As a youngster, I hated the stuff, now, (40 y.o.) I wear ear plugs alot of the time mowing along with tinted safety glasses.

I've had stuff get past my glasses,twice, and actually get stuck into my contact. It ruined the contact, but kept it from going into my eye.

 

[Piper]

safety takes a minute; accidents take a second. you do the math..

 

[Buford T. Justice]

Wow, glad you are okay.

I learned my safety glasses lesson the hard way too. One evening last summer I was going to "quick" trim around some trees with the weed trimmer. Within literally 2 minutes I hit a small rock and saw it coming straight at my eyeball in slow motion After hitting me square and after a trip to the eye Dr I suffered through a scratched cornea for 3 weeks. It was miserable (everything blurry in one eye). But as hard as the rock hit the Dr said Im lucky it didn't blast right through my eyeball. Needless to say that pair of safety glasses are now stored on the handle of the trimmer!

 

[Born_Annoyed]

safety takes a minute; accidents take a second. you do the math..

I can attest to what the PPL that have had a eye injury have gone through. I was grinding steel about 3 years ago and a splinter went up under my glasses and into my eye. I now suffer from a scratched cornea. Not a pleasant situation. Rule one: If in my shop you better be wearing safety equipment
(ie) PPE according to what I'm doing or GET OUT !!!


You Vision is NOT something to screw around with.

Marc...

 

[eborcim]

Wire wheel pieces in your face are no fun either...glad you are okay.

BTW I also learned to keep my mouth closed when chipping welding slag...

 

[User_Name]

Wearing safety protection comes with age I guess. As a youngster, I hated the stuff, now, (40 y.o.) I wear ear plugs alot of the time mowing along with tinted safety glasses.

Word. Thinking safety comes with the experience of too many near misses. Eventually you count yourself lucky and stop tempting fate.

Glad you're OK e-tek.

 

[Zrexxer]

Now I keep a pair of glasses on the press!

I think I see the problem here... you should keep them on your face instead

 

[bazzateer]

safety takes a minute; accidents take a second. you do the math..

So an accident leaves more time for other stuff!







Like waiting to see the Doc at hospital

 

[Piper]

well I don't think I really have to explain this but, just so that ppl know I'm not joking about the whole matter... It only takes a minute to work safely, whether it means getting the jack stands, eye or ear protection, fire extinguisher, safety boots... An accident can happen in a second (or less time really). Trouble is, lots of accidents have much longer lasting implications ... I'd rather take a little bit of extra time to do the job safely vs "just do this quick" with results that could be life altering..

 

[slacktide]

Place I work has a "hall of fame" display cabinet of safety equipment that was sacrificed in the line of duty... one memorable one is a pair of safety glasses with a shed bristle from a heavy-duty wire wheel embedded right where your pupil would be...

 

[goodwrench]

wonder if one of those plastic faces shields would prevent some of these injuries?

Later!!! chris

 

[Bakounine]

wonder if one of those plastic faces shields would prevent some of these injuries?

Later!!! chris

That's what I was wearing when a Dremel cut-off disc decided to shatter and go directly to my face. I saw it, I heard it, but my face remained intact.

That certainly was a "holy shnit" moment though. I will never do that kind of job w/out it.

 

[rodnok1]

I can't stand the goggles, gets too hot and humid in NC for them. I wear glasses so I put face shield on alot. I keep ear protection in my circular saw case, on the table saw and with the mower/weed wacker. I took a chunk of something to the face last year just doing minor trimming that knocked my glasses off and let a hell of a welt...
You try your best to wear this stuff but everybody forgets or just doesn't do it sometimes...it seems those are the times you get wacked. Damn murphy and his laws...

 

[Romanova]

I got no shame in wearing my full face shield in the garage...

 

[bimmer1980]

I like the face shield as well. I keep one on the drill press.....

gotta work safe, altho I've been prone to doing some bone-headed stuff with out the proper safety equipment......

 

[mikeyr]

Had a accident back in 1974 with a hot tank, doctor says if I had not been wearing safety glasses I would have died since the lye would have eaten the whites of my eyes and the pain along with the rest of the damage would have been too much, inspectors searched and never found my safety glasses after they fell off my face but I always wear them now

here is some life advice, never take a bath in 180degree lye, it cleans your skin right off.

 

[VWingman]

Wow, I'm glad I'm not the only one who had a sliver of metal get under or over the safety glass and get into the eye. Getting it taken out was crazy, The doctor had to use a needle. I saw this needle coming in and my vision went blurry. It took him multiple tries to get it out.

 

[PassnThru]

Wearing safety protection comes with age I guess. As a youngster, I hated the stuff, now, (40 y.o.) I wear ear plugs alot of the time mowing along with tinted safety glasses.

I've had stuff get past my glasses,twice, and actually get stuck into my contact. It ruined the contact, but kept it from going into my eye.

+1
With age comes wisdom (well, usually - maybe not so much in my case).
I should wear safety glasses more, but I find myself using them more and more every passing year. I have particularly found myself always using them when I use most of my power tools. As to the OP, I sadly do not usually wear them when drilling. Looks like that should change. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Joe69]

I'm another one that's learned with age. I've been very lucky over the years, but I'm not pushing it anymore.

I know a guy that lost an eye. Where were his safety glasses? On top of his head. They don't do much good up there.

Joe

 

[nolatoolguy]

Yeh, that might of hurt


Glad to here your ok

 

[epashhans]

Don't forget to wear them fishing as well. Not a good end to a good day of fishing...

 

[tstang90]

sign up for AFFLAC i just took out the personal injury policy at the begginign of they year to date $170 in payout so far.


I'm careful as can be gloves glasses ear protection on 99.9% of all my cuts.

I have had some stupid accidents happen along the way so now i have a way to make money off it.

 

[tstang90]

that has to hurt ouch

Don't forget to wear them fishing as well. Not a good end to a good day of fishing...

 

[e-tek]

Don't forget to wear them fishing as well. Not a good end to a good day of fishing...

**** - now I'm gonna wear my face sheild fishing!!!!!!!

 

[caper]

I had a piece of steel hit me in the face,break my cutting glasses,shattered my regular glasses which were under the cutting glasses.The impact threw me about 12 feet.The glass from my regular glasses punctured my eye.It had no pressure in it any more.You could touch it and it would dent and not bounce back.Eye doctor managed to save it and my vision isn't any worse than before but it gives you a real appreciation for your sight when you loose it for awhile.

 

[diogenes]

A shop teacher's advice to a new class:

When you do cool stuff, you have to where PPE. Cool stuff can hurt or even kill you. You don't see office workers wearing PPE, do you? They don't do cool stuff. WE DO.

Be cool, wear your PPE: Don't look like a lame office worker.

 

[adam728]

Throw me on the list of guys that used to half-**** it and now is super safety man. Too many stupid, preventable injuries.

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Wire wheeling some rust off old tubing, safety glasses on. Finished, shut off the wheel and walked acrossed the shop. As soon as I flipped my safety glasses up it felt like bee stung me right in the eyeball. The bench wheel was still spinning pretty fast ~18 feet away, and apparently launched something my way. Tried to be tough, but went to the ER after a couple of hours.

The other time was cutting an exhaust off with a torch. Proper gloves, long sleeves, torch goggles, all good. Was laying under the Jeep and finding it pretty akward work. Torch popped and sent liquid hot splatter all over, but most notibly straight down my ear canal. I then sat straight up and gashed my head open on the bottom of the Jeep. Didn't care, the ear thing hurt WAY more. One hour and 1 zillion gallons of water later it still felt like molten metal was dancing in my ear.

 

[BioHazard]

About a year ago I was out in the woods shooting my .44 Magnum. I was wearing a heavy coat, a thick hat, a giant pair of ear muffs, and big safety glasses.

I shot a rock, which apparently didn't like that, and sent the bullet right back at me. The 1/2 square inch area that I had uncovered near my eyebrow is where it hit.

What good is health insurance if you don't try it out every once in a while?

 

[ddrewyor]

Most face shields are not ANSI rated Z87.1? for impact so safety glasses should be worn underneath.

I did the smart thing when changing the fuel filter on my Ranger and wore the glasses. However, my reaction when the fuel blew out of the line was to turn my head and into my ear the gas went! That burned for a week or two and it felt like an ear infection for a month. My wife still makes fun of me, but no gas went into my eyes! I did see that some other GJ member did the same thing - so I don't feel as bad. Don't know what had happened, I ran the truck with the fuel pump fuse out until it stalled and then let any remaining pressure off using the schrader valve on the fuel rail.

Dave
________
Ford Everest History

 

[Buford T. Justice]

Throw me on the list of guys that used to half-**** it and now is super safety man. Too many stupid, preventable injuries.

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Wire wheeling some rust off old tubing, safety glasses on. Finished, shut off the wheel and walked acrossed the shop. As soon as I flipped my safety glasses up it felt like bee stung me right in the eyeball. The bench wheel was still spinning pretty fast ~18 feet away, and apparently launched something my way. Tried to be tough, but went to the ER after a couple of hours.

The other time was cutting an exhaust off with a torch. Proper gloves, long sleeves, torch goggles, all good. Was laying under the Jeep and finding it pretty akward work. Torch popped and sent liquid hot splatter all over, but most notibly straight down my ear canal. I then sat straight up and gashed my head open on the bottom of the Jeep. Didn't care, the ear thing hurt WAY more. One hour and 1 zillion gallons of water later it still felt like molten metal was dancing in my ear.

Wow that ear job sounds wicked! I can just picture the whole thing going down though, sitting up and BANG!

 

[willymakeit]

I have done the ear thing with citric acid. I beleive it hurt worse than the plywood that kicked back out of a tablesaw into the family jewels. All of my tablesaw tops are at 40'' off floor now.

 

[Flatland Dave]

I am a little slower learner than most. I have had a glass shard, metal sliver, and PVC pipe cleaner in my eyes over the years. But I have finally learned my lesson.

 

[yogitech]

I walked past a friend in the shop headed to parts, and he spayed brake clean as I past by and shot me in the eye. After 15min of using the eye wash, it still itched and burned. later that day I went to the locker room to wash up for the day and as I'm using the wash sink I got a splatter of hand cleaner in the same eye.... ugh, really??? I was tyring to go home and it happened. Some times things are just out of your control....

 

[tkiranch]

As a retired ER Nurse, Army Nurse, Navy Corpsman. I have seen my share of "shrapnel" injuries. Usually happens on a sunday, working on a car, underneath it. rust falls in eye, rubbed it for a while, now scratch cornea. Welding with out shield, now has burned the retinea. Your eye sight is nothing to fool with, safety goggles for any type of work.