a lesson about safety glasses

Tobers

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ok so sunday I was grinding on the bottom of the jeep tub. A spark flew and hit above me and fell into my safety glasses, I thought I brushed it off and it stopped hurting after a second so I thought nothing of it. so then monday afternoon my eye really starts hurting. I go to urgent care and there is a piece of metal lodged in my eye ball about .5 mm. they can't get it out go to duke ER they try washing it out.. nothing..try a q-tip...nothing...try pumping a whole bag of saline into my eye... nothing and then they call the opthomologist and he pries my eye open and picks it out with a neddle. Then to make it worse it had rusted in my eye so they had to litteraly pick out all of the rust with a needle it was pretty bad. so now I have a scratched cornia and a dialated eye and a 6 hour expirience in a ER. So the lesson buy good safety glasses.
 
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Glad you still can see!!!
 
Wow.. a tear came out of my eye reading that..

lets see some pics? Did it leave a gnarly cornea scar?

Glad you are ok and still have your vision!
 
Yea I feel for yah. Same thing happened to me. I was grinding on the frame rail and a metal flyer bounced and got past my safety glasses and lodged in my left eye. I went to the ER and they treated me (at least they thought) and had me see a opthomologist the next day. Well I see the eye doc and she couldnt believe I could still see out of my eye and still had 20/20. She starts looking around and finds more of the metal piece (great job er staff). She numbs it, pulls it out, then proceeds to grind on my eye to remove the rust.
 
Eye ball grinding sucks the big one, also been ther done that. They used a magnet to get the metal out once, the other time it was a piece of ss and the ss magnet was out on lone. haha
 
Sorry to hear that, Andrew :( Some of just never seem to learn, me for example. I've had to go the the opthomologist 4 times for metal slivers. You would think I would have learned by now but I continually "forget" the goggles when I grab the grinder :( Hope you get better quick and finish up the build.
 
Our safety topic for the day at work one day two weeks ago was on eye protection. They have safety glasses with magnets around the outsides to attract metal shavings and help prevent them from going behind the glasses.
 
Damn, glad you're OK. All this grinding and digging on the eyes, makes mine water!
 
Stay away from most of the glasses sold at Lowes/HD...

Make sure the glasses are labeled with the Z87 or Z87.1 labeling for protection from impacts. Otherwise, you're taking chances...
 
yeah sorry no picks I should have taken some when the metal was still in there you could see it really well. Yeah they didn't have a drill in the middle of the night at the ER they said if it had been during the day at the ophthalmologist they would have used the drill. The pain is pretty much gone it's just that it's still dilated so it's all blurry.
 
All you guys that have had metal shit in yer eys, AND had it extracted - PLEASe keep docs saying it's been extracted.
If yo uever need an MRI, esp of your head, thsi is something that MRI techs are paranoid about. They'll ask if you've ever been hit in teh eye w/ metal... and if you can't prove it's been extracted, they will make you go to a doc and get their approval that it's gone.

Me - due to thsi very reason, i always wearboth glasses and face sheild when grinding. Too bad I can't f-ing see hwat i'm doing throug hall that plastic though...
 
RatLabGuy said:
All you guys that have had metal shit in yer eys, AND had it extracted - PLEASe keep docs saying it's been extracted.
If yo uever need an MRI, esp of your head, thsi is something that MRI techs are paranoid about. They'll ask if you've ever been hit in teh eye w/ metal... and if you can't prove it's been extracted, they will make you go to a doc and get their approval that it's gone.
Me - due to thsi very reason, i always wearboth glasses and face sheild when grinding. Too bad I can't f-ing see hwat i'm doing throug hall that plastic though...
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that would be one way to remove any metal fragments in your eye...


When I had my MRI, they asked me about metal in the eyes. I had been welding for 2 weeks straight, all day. They were worried about it, but all the welding I did was aluminum and nickel, so I didn't worry too much about it.
 
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j/k. I've had that happen and I didn't learn my lesson so the second time I stuck a magnet to my eye and got it out myself. yeah yeah, I'm a dumbass. I've heard it, but I agree. I don't grind or cut without glasses now.
 
RatLabGuy said:
Me - due to thsi very reason, i always wearboth glasses and face sheild when grinding. Too bad I can't f-ing see hwat i'm doing throug hall that plastic though...
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I too wear both safety goggles and a face shield when in awkward positions where I can't easily direct the line of grindings clearly away from me. Usually I just use my cheap face shield from Northern:
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I just go to the opthamologist and have them dig it out right then and there. Takes 5 minutes and is painless if done with anesthetic eyedrops. Then on back to work. Sorry that the folks messed you up.
 
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