Why you wear safety glasses

Blaze

Blaze

The Jeeper Reaper
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Definitely glad to be wearing them yesterday. Was welding up a battery box for my car and was working on oen of the pieces of metal with a grinder on the workbench. A piece of metal got launched off and hit my safety glasses right in front of my right eye. Hit it so hard that it made me jump back.

Then it continued up and hit the light fixture 10' in the air and blew out the flourescent bulb, short right through it.

That could have been some serious eye damage there. :eek:
 
RenegadeT said:
good reminder. Its fun until someone loses an eye.
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yup. It's always worth it. That and steel toes... Like if you're going to be storing bender dies on a table, standing up, and you're hammering on something right beside it and it falls on your foot *coughSpencecough*
 
yep, i wear an entire face shield and then safety glasses under that, plus a decent dust mask and ear protection. i just need a metal cup to wear and i think i'll be good to go.

i usually wear at least the safety glasses anytime i'm in the garage doing anything since i'm what some people refer to as "accident prone" lol. kinda like tim taylor. if there's a chance to burn myself, i'll burn myself. if i can spill some sort of staining liquid on myself, there goes another good pair of pants. everytime i come upstairs from working in the garage, the first thing my wife asks is "where did you hurt yourself today".
 
88 BII said:
yep, i wear an entire face shield and then safety glasses under that, plus a decent dust mask and ear protection. i just need a metal cup to wear and i think i'll be good to go.

i usually wear at least the safety glasses anytime i'm in the garage doing anything since i'm what some people refer to as "accident prone" lol. kinda like tim taylor. if there's a chance to burn myself, i'll burn myself. if i can spill some sort of staining liquid on myself, there goes another good pair of pants. everytime i come upstairs from working in the garage, the first thing my wife asks is "where did you hurt yourself today".
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I am the same way. Maybe we shouldn't ever try to get together to work on anything. :lol:

I also managed to burn the palm of my hand with a burr from the hot saw and then a piece of slag went down in my shoe while I was welding. :lol:
 
Battery box is looking good though. Welds suck because I needed to replace the welder tip but didn't have any replacements, but nothing a grinder won't pretty up. :lol:
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We have a good friend who is still healing from a cornea transplant. In April, 2011, he was pouring molten aluminum into a mold when it exploded back in his face. He suffered 3rd degree burns to his right cornea and eye lid and first & second degree burns to his face. Pretty sure he was wearing glasses, but not a face shield.
 
Blaze said:
I am the same way. Maybe we shouldn't ever try to get together to work on anything. :lol:
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no, i think we'll be ok. the accident prone-ness will cancel each other out. kind of like you learned in school, a negative number times a negative number equals a positive number. lol
 
88 BII said:
no, i think we'll be ok. the accident prone-ness will cancel each other out. kind of like you learned in school, a negative number times a negative number equals a positive number. lol
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Either that or it would be like dividing by zero and no one would ever see us again. :lol:
 
That sucks man, that would have been a extremely painful thing to go through .
My little eye story....I've learned not to grind or weld with a fan blowing anywhere in the shop no matter how hot it is. Actually now I won't let anyone turn a fan on even if they're just standing around. I got metal blow into my eyes with safety glasses on a couple years ago from grinding on the front of a JK axle. This happened on a Friday. My neighbor is a ER nurse so Sunday I went in with her to figure out why my eyes where so scratchy, the doctor looks at them and sees some metal specs in them so the doctor tried to scrap it out with a needle (nice visual for you) and he ended up not being able to get it out cause my eye somewhat absorbed it. Monday I went to the eye doctor where they said i had metal and rust rings in my eyes in three different places, so they grind the top layer of my cornea off and let it push the next layer out to get more rust out, the grinding happened Monday, Wednesday and Friday. What a royal pain in the ass. The same exact :poop: happened 2 years later without a fan blowing.
Needless to say I now where goggles if I'm grinding. That is something I never want to experience again. It wasn't painful but it was irritating as hell.
 
I like full face masks now after a piece of stainless tagged my throat a few months ago. Well that and I've melted bits of my beard grinding too.
 
you all should at least wear glasses AND a face shield when grinding along with gloves, etc. Working in heavy industrial construction, I've seen it all because someone is either too lazy to wear the right gear, is stupid, or just doesn't care. The pictures of what I've seen happen would make your face and eyes hurt just by the sight of them...
 
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that too, i've seen nasty pics of fingers, faces, gashes on arms, from not being careful with grinders and cut off wheels. no thank you. plus, i had an 8.8 fall off some jackstands a couple years back while my hand was under the pinion flange. it broke my middle finger in 2 places and left a nice large gash in it. i just try to make sure i'm fully aware of what's going on while i'm out there working
 
CarolinaTruggies said:
That sucks man, that would have been a extremely painful thing to go through .
My little eye story....I've learned not to grind or weld with a fan blowing anywhere in the shop no matter how hot it is. Actually now I won't let anyone turn a fan on even if they're just standing around. I got metal blow into my eyes with safety glasses on a couple years ago from grinding on the front of a JK axle. This happened on a Friday. My neighbor is a ER nurse so Sunday I went in with her to figure out why my eyes where so scratchy, the doctor looks at them and sees some metal specs in them so the doctor tried to scrap it out with a needle (nice visual for you) and he ended up not being able to get it out cause my eye somewhat absorbed it. Monday I went to the eye doctor where they said i had metal and rust rings in my eyes in three different places, so they grind the top layer of my cornea off and let it push the next layer out to get more rust out, the grinding happened Monday, Wednesday and Friday. What a royal pain in the ass. The same exact :poop: happened 2 years later without a fan blowing.
Needless to say I now where goggles if I'm grinding. That is something I never want to experience again. It wasn't painful but it was irritating as hell.
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I squirmed around in my chair while reading this...
 
After the time I spent working with MRI machines, and knowing I could be again someday, I'm really paranoid about getting metal stuck in my body anywhere... especially my eyes.
I always wear eye glasses, and if its the least bit sketchy a face shield too, and big welding gloves when grinding etc.

The thing alot of guys skip out on is hearing protection... please don't! Grinders, saws, all that shit is loud and will slowly make you deaf! Once you've got the hair cell damage, it never comes back.
I use big earmuff style hearing protection, easy to put on & off. What's really unfortunate is that it's often difficult to wear both earmuffs and glasses or especially a face mask.
 
The needle thing is pretty cool. They numb it so you don't feel/blink as they pick at your eyeball. I always thought it was neat when they get it against the fragment and flex my cornia trying to pry it out. It's kinda like looking in a carnival mirror with one eye and the other is normal. It really screws with your head!

Needless say I've had my fair share of shop injuries..... Usually because of my own stupidity.
 
MarsFab said:
The needle thing is pretty cool. They numb it so you don't feel/blink as they pick at your eyeball. I always thought it was neat when they get it against the fragment and flex my cornia trying to pry it out. It's kinda like looking in a carnival mirror with one eye and the other is normal. It really screws with your head!

Needless say I've had my fair share of shop injuries..... Usually because of my own stupidity.
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I find this hysterical for some reason. Sorry to laugh but I can't help it.
 
Real men wear shorts to grind and weld! Don't we PJ!
 
A friend of mine just had a 1" piece of stainless wire removed from his leg. He was wire wheeling a wheel and a bristle flew off, through his pants (jeans) and into his leg. ER wouldn't touch it, he had to have an Orthopedic surgeon do invasive surgery above his knee to locate it and remove it.
 
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