Wear your glasses!!!

[jonescafe72]

I had an incident with a weed eater and a hidden rock along our fence line. It was starting to get dark and I had just lifted my glasses up to the top of my head when BANG.....the rock bit back and left a vertical slash on my cornea! It was neat to see the fluorescent dye in the ER. My eye looked like a glowing cats eye. Wasn't worth the pain. Now I always wear my safety glasses to do yard work as well.

 

[Homercules]

I had a close call a few years ago that made me always wear eye protection. I was using a very large angle grinder to cut off a crossmember on my truck and I just got this nervous feeling. While I WAS wearing a face shield it just didn't feel like enough if something went wrong so I put on safety glasses under the shield and started cutting again. The cutting wheel broke and snagged the grinder on the metal then recoiled into my face. It almost knocked be out! I suffered from a ****** nose but that was it. The face shield had a horrible gash that zig-zaged across the front but the glasses underneath helped to absorb the impact and I walked away relatively unhurt.

There are some excellent safety glasses out there that are comfortable, protective and even stylish. No reason not to wear them.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Some good stories in here.

 

[Joe69]

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.

I like that!!!

Joe

 

[wkends]

A few years back I was working on removing a old exhaust system with no glasses on, I got a small piece of metal in my eye and thought I got it out later that night it got to bothering me and looking in the mirror I could see a rusty spot. Off to the hospital, When they come at your eye with that needle and you have to just lay there YOU DO NOT FORGET YOUR SAFETY GLASSES ANY MORE !!!!!!!!!

 

[charliechinist]

When I started my machinist apprentice years ago I got in the habit of unlocking my toolbox in the morning, cleaning my safety glasses, (if your glasses are clean you won’t even notice them) I’d put them on my face and leave them there all day. If I was using grinders ect. I’d put a face shield on over them.
One of the journeymen I studied under always said,
“Anyone who doesn’t wear his safety glasses just hasn’t had enough **** stuck in his eyes yet.”

 

[mikeyr]

what happened to the picture of the eye with the fishing hook in it, I swear it was in this thread and I was going to show it to my wife !