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I agree... the Mig throwing a spark into your ear, and as your screaming you can still hear the sizzling. Thats almost the worst.
I went to the ER with a chunk of metal in my eye. had to wait 7-8 hrs to get it removed. NOT FUN.
I was de-burring the end of some 3" exhaust pipe on the belt sander. I was wearing safety glasses even.
I tried fishing it out with a q-tip, my fingernail, a friends fingernail, etc... but it was in there good.
Yah, i'm pretty good about safety glasses now
I kept my old Chemisty Goggles since they seal up againist your face good, and I usually wear those when grinding/sanding from now on.
As the result of a private contractor safety glasses program, an employee began encouraging his eighteen year-old son, who installs siding on houses, to wear safety glasses while working. The son finally relented, when aluminum dust started getting in his eyes. About one week later, he was applying siding with an air powered staple gun. When the son fired a staple, it hit a metal plate behind the siding, ricocheted back towards his face and one leg of the staple penetrated the safety glasses' lens, see the figure below. The staple hit with such force that the frames were cracked and the son received bruising on the eyebrow and cheekbone.
you guys are all a bunch of sissies. a couple years ago i was licking an envelope to mail in my mortgage payment and i got a paper cut on the tip of my tongue. 10 minutes later i had forgot al about it and drank some orange juice. talk about pain
seriously though, it's always good to hear about the minor mishaps to remind us to be careful. i was recently cutting a piece of wood on my band saw. i had the table tilted at a 45* angle to cut a bevel in a small block of wood. i rarely tilt it up and wasn't thinking about the fact that the blade would be coming back out of the wood along the front edge of the block, and that it would be exposed for about 1" before going into the table. well i hit a knot in the wood which caused a hard catch. the block flipped out of my hands and hit me in smack dab in the middle of my safety glasses, breaking the frame. my right hand also got jerked and i caught the side of the blade on the finger nail of my middle finger. had it' been straight on, i'm sure it would have taken the tip of my finger off. instead it scraped about 3/4 the way through the nail. so i ended up w/ a bruised nose, broken glasses and a scraped finger nail. just enough to remind me to slow down and pay attention.
