All to many similar stories here but all so true. Im a fool at times couse of the fog and sweat all up on my eyes, I'll take them off. Yeah, bad idea! Just remember what old man ernie (RIP) use to say "You better take care of them couse they're the only ones you got".
no matter how hard you try to take care of your eyes while you work, you can never be completely safe and you never see the one that gets you. im just glad my boss pays for all the bits of **** ive had dug out of my eyes
Great thread,hopefully (name withheld),who told me to F**k Off on the HAMB reads this. This is why i gave you such a hard time.It was funny reading the coverage of that Boston WoW Chop,in Street Rodder,when they made a big deal(lie)that all safety gear was used too.
Got metal shaving in me eye and was wearing a face sheild and my prescript gl***es! Ive learned to keep my face outa the dam way of the sparks now.
27 years ago last week lost vision in my right eye to a bungee cord ... changed my life 4 ever .. wear protection .. think of the possiblities when doing any work or being around others that are working...its never okay just to watch safely some times.. i cringe at the DMV eye exam.. so many things that i will never do again or can never do the same use binoculars sight down a straight edge shoot right handed bowling shoot pool pour a gl*** of anything gauge accurately distance...etc etc be careful they don't heal
a friend of my brothers lost an eye to a bungee cord. he has a gl*** eye. be careful with those ****ing bungees! I keep several pairs of gl***es around the shop, mostly because I set them down and lose them all the time, but also I try to keep one pair on every machine where you might need one, so when you are just going to get that one little burr off something you have them handy rather than skipping the gl***es cuz it will just take a second. when I am doing something where there will be lots of grinding and such I wear a pair around my neck on a string so they wre there when I need them. how many people here have been going back and forth welding and grinding and put on your safety gl***es and struck an arc? or am I the only one that stupid?
here's one for ya that i shoulda posted earlier... years ago my dad was working with a 6hp grinder running a 6' by 8" belt. he's a knifemaker by trade. well the belt he was using was part of a bad batch and the thing delaminated on him and came up and smacked him in the face with all that power behind it. luckily he was wearing his safety gl***es but it took his eyebrow and a fair amount of his cheek off on the right side, ground up his nose and split his lip open. i remember him coming in the house, towell over his face and blood everywhere. have worn safety gl***es ALL the time since then. scary ****!
A local guy here had his own shop and had a cutoff wheel blow up in his face with no safety gl***es. Went to the E.R. they told him he needed surgery ASAP. He didnt have insurance and told the Doc to sew him up the best he could. He ended up blind. They found him swinging 2 months later.
Not to jack the thread,on another safety bit of info. Working for a very safety first co. has opened my eyes to this and other things but this one got me, they had a safety aleart from osha that had a guy using a chop saw and the blade broke and went into his heart and killed the guy! and another one was the guy ran a 10,000 max rpm disc on a 20,000 grinder and it came apart and stuck it self into his head! Now I watch out for the stupid things I used to do and jump my kids **** when he does something stupid.
I have always wondered how they get away with poor safety practices on some of the build shows.Osha would be on us in a heart beat at our shop if they knew there was a violation.Plus it promotes some pretty bad practices.I know its just a show but alot of people do see it.
Be sure your frames are Safety frames as well The safety lens does offer some light eye protection but the lens can be knocked pout of the frames pretty easy and still get driven in your eye!Been there done that !lucky for me it only lead to a black eye it could have been a LOT worst! Safety gl***es can be very street friendly today If I remove my side shields my gold metal frame gl***es look like everyday wear.
Sign in my plastics cl*** read: "You can eat with false teeth, walk with a false limb, but you can't see through a gl*** eye. ALWAYS WEAR EYE PROTECTION." I live by it.
those backing pads like to fly apart, the sanding discs too, you just have to catch an edge the wrong way. i try to stick to flap discs.
gl*** saved my eye twice, once i worked in foundry and a got a drop of moulton metal smack in the middle of gl*** lens, my eye would not have survived that and then the pilot light went out on a the gas furance it took awhile to light the pilot well i lit up the whole room ilooked like wiley coyote after the explosion the doc in the emergency was trying to figure out how my whole face was burned except for around my eyes simple doc i was wearing my saftey gl***es. i allways mention to anyone when they are not weargin there safty gl***es wear then wear them and wear them
A lil' different: Guy told me he was using a table saw when a bit of something hit him in the cheek. 3 days later he blew his nose and one of the carbide tips off the saw blade came out. I never get visually inline with any blades, wheels, etc. I've worn safety gl***es with anything powered in the shop since I had a box wrench on a nut inside a C-channel frame rail, put an impact gun on the bolt and inadvertantly pulled the trigger. Wrench that was meant to lock against the C-channel popped out and hit me hard on the lower edge of my eye socket. Another 1/4 inch...
When I am working on a project, I always try to wear safety gl***es. For Christmas I got a pair of safety gl***es that have an LED lights on each side. On both lights there is a small switch to turn it on and off depending on if I want the light on or not.
I'm an optician by trade, so I see this kind of stuff all the time. A few years back, my neighbor was working on the brakes on one of his yard cars, when the spring broke and flew out, throwing not only the spring, but bits of rusty metal and some brake cleaning solution he had been soaking it down with straight into his eye. I plucked one of the metal pieces sticking out of his cornea out, and sent him to our local opthalmologist the next day. He had two more small metal shavings in the eye, one so deep it would require surgery to remove, but not a threat to his vision. He opted to leave it in there because he has no insurance. The wierd thing is, he has blue eyes, but the metal shaving imbedded deep in the one eye caused the eye to turn brown! He looks like a damned malamute! It really freaks people out.
iv been geting mine at lowes their 13$ but i started geting them at another independent hardware store because they sell replacement lenses. you dont have to buy the whole head bracket so its cheaper. they get scratched up and foggy eventually no matter how well i take care of them it seems. so plan on getting new ones regularly
I saw some guy cut his face open with a grinding wheel once, (gee what was his name again, I think he's even a hamber)...hehehe. that was a pretty nasty incident. I am a big advicate of a full face shield especially since then! never can be too careful!
Gene, glad to hear you 'dodged a bullet' on that. I was just talking to a fellow employee about wearing shields and gl***es more often. I think I'll do more than just give it lip service now.
after 31 years as a heavy equipment mechanic, all I have to add is: it's not the safety gl***es or face shield, it's the voice in your head telling you to think twice before you do anything...about ten years ago I got hit in the left side of my face with a piece of spring that took 30 ton jack to compress. broke the side of my face and cracked my eye socket. if I hadn't been wearing a face shield, or the metal hit me an inch either way, I wouldn't be here. I didn't listen to the voice in my head telling me to be aware...
after i had to get a peice o rusty steel removed by the eye doc with a small dremal like tool i also support eye portection
It's all fun and games, until someone looses an eye...than it's fun and games you can't see anymore. James Hetfield
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