Don't be stupid.

I was doing some drilling and grinding under the Fairlane a couple of weeks ago and grabbed my old fashioned shop goggles...this nice big-uns with the elastic strap on the back that fit over prescription gl***es. One of my kids came out in the garage and saw me under there with the goggles on. He asked my why I was wearing them since I had my prescription gl***es on, too.

I slid out from under the car and let him look at the surface of the goggles. There was all kinds of metal ****, big and small, on there. I think it got the point across.

Side note: Step bits make some pretty gnarly (and hot) metal fragments!

 

been to the ER for my eye and 1 time for my nuts when a gringer wheel exploded sending fragments into my nuts, I had 4 kids so I guess they are ok (the nuts not the kids)

 

i started wear a face sheild about 8 years ago ..after i had some grinding metal went into my mouth (the metal fused it's self to the fake to in the front of my grill.)(fake tooth is another story) and under my gl***es .

the s***ches happend when i set down to cut the the door frame of a car .looked around and just saw the the safty gl***es .so i poped them on..5 seconds later i was eating a cut off wheel ..STUPID

 

Been there...done that!

 

I was porting heads when it happened to me.

The Dr. dude comes at me with a grinder, moves it right at my eye and then says-

"Don't blink"

I still have nightmares.

~Scotch~

 

done the same thing many times but three years ago same thing happens again but this time im actually wearing goggles for a change in goes the splinter spend the next day in and out of the hospital and now 3 years latter i still wake in the night in absolute fukin agony like someone just stuck a pin in my eye and guess what wasent even my car i was grindin on

no good deed goes unpunished!!!

 

Count me in too. I had my regular gl***es on watching a guy in the shop clean up some stuff with a grinder. Shrapnel got me. My regular M.D. used a needle to flick it out, them sent me to a spe******t to use the dremel tool to grind the rust out. It didn't hurt but it sure was nerve racking!

 

I had to have an MRI done last week on my cervical spine The lady that gave me my reminder call the night before thought to ask me If I had been asked to take an eye Xray seeing I'm listed as a weldor/Fabricator.I had to get a last minute Xray done to be sure my eyes were clear of metal particles.It seems that if the MRI machine can't pull any bits of metal out of your body it also has the capability of heating them up enough to cause severe burns !Sone old Tatoo inks have metal in them and will cause severe burns also

 

****in great. Update to my last post a couple of days back: I've just got back from the eye surgeon to have a piece of steel taken out -again! Yes, I was wearing eye protection while using a die grinder, but after I'd finished I bent over, took off the gl***es with my eyes shut and brushed some chips off my forehead and I guess brushed a bit in my eye. Didn't really feel much at the time but last night started to niggle so I did the "right " thing and went straight to the doc this morning. Those die grinder shavings are sharp ****ers! It went deep.
Not good, but I was lucky...this time.

And it's hard to type with a patch on one eye.

 

This thread would reach the moon if everyone on this board told of thier **** in the eye story------WEAR EYE PROTECTION!!! I hope everyone heals

 

Around Christmas 2004 (actually about a week before) I thought it would be neat to use an old piece of furniture I had to make coffee table for my G/F who at the time didn't have one, and give it to her for Christmas.

I cut down this old "fish tank stand" I had had in a closet for a few years, to form the basis of a coffee table. I bought the wood, sized it up, and built a metal frame out of "L" channel to encircle the rectangular wood, bolt it to the cut down legs, paint it, and presto! I cut it all apart and welded it all together, then sanded and stained the top to a deep cherry finish. I was pretty damn proud of my furniture-making abilities, lol...

About a day after I finished the metal work, I had an eye irritation.

It bugged me for a day or so, it felt like I had a grain of sand or a bit of sawdust was in my eye, or under my eyelid, no matter what I tried it wouldn't come free. On the second day, when my eye was constantly watering and I couldn't keep it open (nor sleep) I decided it was more than just something stuck under my eyelid...

I went to an opthomologist in town after the third day because it was bloodshot and very irritated. I couldn't stand the irritation anymore and I couldn't get to sleep because it hurt so bad (burning) and was constantly watering. It was watering like every 15 minutes. It was keeping me from being able to drive during the day. It was VERY irritating.

The doc looked in my eye with his tools, and said "You have a sliver of metal in your cornea that is beginning to rust." He tried to "s****e" it out by flicking it with a small tool, but couldn't get at it. He called another Doctor (an eye spe******t he knew) that was 30 minutes away, and arranged for me to be there in the next half-hour. This was Dec. 22.
I show up and they take me back to the "operating room". The new doc comes in, and ends up s****ing away a part of my cornea to get the metal sliver out. He also GRINDS away the part of my cornea (like with a small Dremel) that had been infected with the rust. I now have a divot in one of my corneas. They gave me eye drops and a fake contact lens to protect my eyeball as it healed. Apparently, your eyeballs heal faster than any part of your body, and the divot he carved out would be healed by the next day. I got a prescription for some potent eye drops and was told to come back the next day. (Dec 23rd).

I came back as prescribed, and had been taking the eye drops as prescribed. All looked ok and they took off the contact lense that was supposed to help heal my eyeball. I was told to come back the next day (Dec. 24th) for a look-see.

I came back at 8 AM on Christmas eve, (during the night it was acting like it had been, watering, etc. Everything was blurry out of that eye) and the doc was less than happy with what he saw when I went back. He wanted me to keep up the drops, and gave me a new medicine and told me to come back at 8 AM tomorrow. Christmas day. Great. (but unbelieveable for a doctor's office hours!)

I did what he said, and with the complete lack of traffic, I made it there in record time. My eyeball was reacting well to the new drops, and I was improving according to the doc. He said "Come back in 2 days for a check up, but I think the worst is behind us now."

I was wearing safety goggles when I was cutting/welding/grinding that metal for the coffee table. The only way I can figure it made it into my eyeball, was that it must have been either on my cheek or on my finger, and I wiped my eye.

This whole experience was pure hell, both because I suffered a horrible existence for two days as my eye rejected the metal and it began to rust in my eyeball, and for the 2 days afterward where I had to be at the doctor's office, during the holidays.

Please, everyone, make sure- no matter how short your grinding or cutting time is, take the time to put on gl***es or a shield. Even though I did wear gl***es, somehow something got in my eye- but I couldn't imagine having to go through all that again- especially if a set of safety gl***es would have potentially prevented it.

 

Been there... I also had to have a (tiny?) piece of steel extracted from my eyeball... Nothing quite like the feeling of the tug on your eyeball, while the opthomologist is pulling the sliver out...

 

I take real good care of my eyes, I can't afford to replace them....

I've had $10,000 worth of cataract surgery done in the last 2 years!

They might only be a couple of timy bits of plastic, but they charged me like they're diamonds.

Cheers, Glen.

 

Man I've heard this story way too many times here, and I evidentally still need the reminder cuz I don't wear gl***es or a face shield all the time like I should. Hopefully I won't have to learn this lesson the hard way for a change. Thanks you guys.

 

Nothing is better than having 5 s***ches pulled out of your eyeball. And being able to 1) see the tweezers coming at your eye, and 2) seeing your eye stretching outwards as each s***ch gets pulled.
Not something I want to do again..

 

I don't have any safety gl***es. See, I figger I can just do my grinding with my eyes squinted and if something comes flyin' out I'll just close 'em, succsesfully blocking any debris with my eyelids of steel...... uh, I think I'll go buy some gl***es!

 

Been there with the drill removing rust. One more safety precaution when welding or grinding while laying down or head to the side, wear ear plugs to keep the hot stuff out of your ears and off the ear drums ...... its a small inconvience to keep what hearing you have left.

Vergil