Safety First - A Cautionary Tale

[darkshadow]

Oh if it was the drill you would know, when iron is in your eye it will start to rust, so they can pull the steel but they have to drill out the rust with a demel basically, sucks Idon't bother any more just squint real tight

 

[BGKYK5]

He did say there was some rust. Donno how he got it out, but no power tools.

 

[darkshadow]

might have been lucky and not needed it.


my eye doctor is scared of me, 2-4 chemical burns to the eye a week will do that i guess

 

[cbbr]

Sounds like you need this-

 

[mudboggink5]

anyone try welding with no mask, well i did, It felt like there was sand in my eyes for 24 hours. Im glad i still have my vision. I always try to take extra precaution now. You dont realize how important your vision is until its disturbed.

 

[cbbr]

I've been known to tack things while looking the other way with only safety glasses on, but never any more than that.

 

[BGKYK5]

You dont realize how important your vision is until its disturbed.

x2!

 

[roadnotca]

Have had wood and iron in the eyes. Now I wear swimmers goggles; not taking any chances.

 

[Drey]

I was using a cutting wheel on a stainless bumper a few couple years back. Small sharp bounced into my eye off my cheek. Within 45 min to an hour it hurt to blink. I went in right away and they got it out. Weird thing about it. The metal hit my eye but cauterized it and was just floating around scratching my eye.

The doc got it out right away, a weeks worth of eye drops later I was on my way back to work. Nice thing about that was it was at work so Workmans Comp covered it.

 

[BGKYK5]

I didn't miss any work, only vacation.


If it happens again, I'll have to remember to run into work and claim it happened there.












J/K, of course.

 

[Randy92782]

I've had plenty of wood in my eyes (mind out of the gutters guys ) I used to work at a sawmill and have ran a chainsaw for a lot of years

 

[darkshadow]

anyone try welding with no mask, well i did, It felt like there was sand in my eyes for 24 hours. Im glad i still have my vision.

flash wont damage your eyes, if you weld every day after a while it just doesn't bother you, i would do 60% of my welding with out a mask,

 

[crawford]

I got steel in my eye after grinding for hours on my D60 brake calipers. I had cheap eye protection, but it didn't help with all that grinding. They had to use the drill on my eyes to get the rust out.

 

[adamforsythe]

This post kinda reminds me of the pain I went throught when I got welding flash.....that sucked I woke up at 1 in the morning in pain...it felt like there was glass in my eyes it burnt so bad. I always wear my shield now.
I got some good drugs from the ER for it

 

[BUDDY]

I got a few pieces of burning bedliner/sheetmetal in my eye when I was in college. I worked at a place that does bedliners & gooseneck hitches & such & we would always spray the bedliners first & the the hitches. It was nuts because I had safety glasses & a full sheild on, but the little boogers got in there anyways. I do mean boogers. It was splinters of sheetmetal floating in molten bedliner. Woke up the next day & couldn't open that eye, so I called a few places & an eye doctor was available within an hour. When I go there, he got a really small gauge syringe & bent the tip of it with some surgical needlenose pliers, then he put me into the face mask contraption & said, "OK, Don't Blink!!" then proceeded to dig & scratch at my eye to get the boogers all out. It happened about 8 years ago & my eye has been bloodshot ever since. It doesn't bother me at all, but I have been accused of being high a few times.

Later,
Buddy