Eye protection

[cease232]

I'm notoriously bad about wearing safety glasses in the shop. Yesterday I was grinding on some cylinders and wore my safety glasses the entire time. Headed off to bed I rubbed me eye as I was drifting off and it stung. Thought I just rubbed my eyeball. Still felt it in the morning. Finally pulled this from under my eyelid 12 hours later!

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[jackjcc]

Wow, that is a huge piece. Very glad it didn't embed in your eye and good job wearing safeties!! I never work without them.


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[hseII]

I've got an uncle that had a habit of backing into things due to his lack of depth perception: you have that problem when you only have 1 real eye.

He lost his other one from flying metal put into orbit by a sledge hammer, many years ago: safety glasses are a touchy subject for me.

$100 bills are not made out of the same materials they were made of 25 years ago: an Uncle Ben used to be the trick for removing slivers from the eye.

Crazy, I know, but I've seen it happen far to many times.

Buy Properly Rated PPE for the Task at Hand & use it correctly: you can't Walmart if you need a new eye.

 

[cease232]

I had the eye Dr remover a sliver from my eye a few months ago and ended up with an eye patch for couple days. Since then I've been pretty cautious. This time i was just laying in bed. I'm thinking it must've fallen outta my hair. My wife threatened to make my wear a full hooded mask if i don't get my act together hahaha.


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[jackjcc]

I've got an uncle that had a habit of backing into things due to his lack of depth perception: you have that problem when you only have 1 real eye.

He lost his other one from flying metal put into orbit by a sledge hammer, many years ago: safety glasses are a touchy subject for me.

$100 bills are not made out of the same materials they were made of 25 years ago: an Uncle Ben used to be the trick for removing slivers from the eye.

Crazy, I know, but I've seen it happen far to many times.

Buy Properly Rated PPE for the Task at Hand & use it correctly: you can't Walmart if you need a new eye.

Spot on! I use actual military grade specs. Stop ball bearings at 25 meters.


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[RIDE-RED 350r]

I would gladly give up any of the other senses over losing my eyesight...I have become religious about wearing proper eye protection when it is called for, I'm petrified of losing my eyesight. My life would be over if I were blinded.

 

[RI Chevy]

The price of eyes are out of sight these days.

 

[huskihl]

I learned from my wood shop teacher 30some years ago. Air hose and a blow gun and blow yourself off after you're done. You can wear eye protection all day, but if it's on your face, clothes, or hair afterwards, they don't help much

 

[hseII]

I learned from my wood shop teacher 30some years ago. Air hose and a blow gun and blow yourself off after you're done. You can wear eye protection all day, but if it's on your face, clothes, or hair afterwards, they don't help much

Low pressure.

 

[P.M.P.]

Glasses are good. I had alot of problems over the years been told don't have much of a eye reflex.One time I scratched cornea while hunting so went in to have looked at. Hospital gave me some numbing drops found out later on that the drops that they let me leave with and should not have gave me were eating my cornea away. After four days of putting one drop in every hour.Most of the pain was due to eye being 3 times the size of the other and ibproferen would have been my friend.Had a good friend tell my wife to get me in to a certain eye doctor it was on a thursday wife had made me an appointment for the following Monday at another place.He insisted she call where he said and she did got me in the next day.Was told I had a cornea ulcer and was in the last stage and if I would of waited till Monday they said I would have been blind in my dominant eye. It took 2 months of care and praying to get my sight back to what it was before the accident. You guys do something wrong with your eye see a eye doctor don't dick around with the hospital.

 

[Cigmaker]

I never used any eye protection when I was younger. I was installing a hitch on my ford ranger one day laying on my back drilling up through the frame. That night and several days after my right eye would just start watering and hurting randomly. Went to the eye doctor he said I had something in it but couldn't tell what... That ended up with a trip to a specialist with a drill to remove the metal. From that day on I've been a ppe advocate.

 

[Derf]

I'm notoriously bad about wearing safety glasses in the shop. Yesterday I was grinding on some cylinders and wore my safety glasses the entire time. Headed off to bed I rubbed me eye as I was drifting off and it stung. Thought I just rubbed my eyeball. Still felt it in the morning. Finally pulled this from under my eyelid 12 hours later!

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PPE is always a must, but that doesn't look like it came from your grinding on cylinders. Grinding on aluminum with a burr makes little aluminum flakes like powder. That looks like steel the way its curled.
I can't believe you made it through the night with that between your eyelid and your eye! Hopefully it was just caught on your lashes.

 

[Dustin4185]

I have had a wire strand from a wire wheel on a grinder go in my eye. I also spent over 10 grand on ICL surgery about three years ago. If my wife sees me without eye pro, she hits the roof. I am still bad about not taking time to grab them if it is a small job, but those are the ones that get you. I can get Oakley mil spec at a huge discount. I have a pair in each truck and a couple at the shop. I also got reamed for buying an expensive welding hood for work by my supervisor. He doesn't/can't weld so I asked him politely to let me make my PPE choices. Flash burning your eyes is very painful as well.

 

[RIDE-RED 350r]

Yeah, unfortunately alot of us learn to appreciate PPE the hard way by an injury or at least a near miss. I was on a roadside brush and small tree clearing job at work last summer and a small-ish tree that was being felled came down and struck me on the side of the head and top of the shoulder. It was only about a 30' tall oak and about the diameter of a baseball bat where it hit me. But let me tell you, it put me into the ground instantly and hurt like hell! I've never experienced being hit by such a force before that, it's amazing the power even a small tree has when it's coming down. My hardhat likely saved me from a serious head injury.

 

[malk315]

Just moving brush I bent down to grab a bunch of it and got poked by a small stick and it scratched my cornea. Had to clean it right as infection on cornea injury could be big problem. So when dragging brush for the chipper I wear glasses of some sort!

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