PSA: Wear safety glasses.

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Yeah I had to put mine on after shooting some burned metal into my face while grinding some metal with a dremel a few weeks back 🙂

 

[mobobuff]

Originally posted by: Ornery
Thanks for the reminder. Several years ago, while mowing the lawn, the blade threw a stone into the trunk of a tree I was next to. It flew right into my eye. I saw it coming, but I couldn't dodge it, because it was going as fast as a bullet. Stung like a bitch, and I swore I'd always wear safety glasses after that... yeah well, I've fallen back into my old ways. Gotta get back in the habit, and this is a good reminder!

I've never had any lawn mower projectiles... but one time I did run over a hockey puck and the blade sliced it right in half and slammed both chunks against the inside of the blade assembly. Made the loudest noise and I almost jumped all the way off the mower.

 

[Ornery]

The only time a mower is going to throw something at the user, is when it ricochets off something else. I don't mean that I'm only going to use safety glasses while riding my mower, but every time I do work that can potentially cause an eye injury. I've gotten too lackadaisic about it, so this is a wake up call for me.

 

[rahvin]

I had around 3 months to consider being blind and to give some aspects of it a trial run, I couldn't see a television or read during that time and it left a lot of time for quiet contemplation of what life would be like without sight. I didn't like the idea and I'm super paranoid about it now especially considering the damage I already have.

Wear your safety glasses people, you don't want to have to learn to read braille and you might want to see the faces of the people you love.

 

[zugzoog]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
Yeah I had to put mine on after shooting some burned metal into my face while grinding some metal with a dremel a few weeks back 🙂

A number of years ago I was making a fence for my father. I had to cut some of the colourbond sheets with a grinder. As I was cutting a huge spark landed on my safety glasses right in front of my left iris and burnt for around 3-4 seconds.

I prayed to the god of safety glasses that afternoon, I would hate to think what could have happened otherwise (damage to eye, other damage when letting go of an industrial sized grinder with full sized cutting wheel).

 

[arcas]

I'll chime in, too. Was draining condensed water from a 60gal air compressor. I read the wrong gauge and assumed it was < 5psi. It was an old tank and the drain was simply an iron nipple with a cap screwed on. Well, turns out the tank wasn't completely depressurised. As I unscrewed the cap, the pressure blew the cap off (never did find it), stripping the last thread bare. Since the drain was under the tank, the air managed to pick up a lot of dust and grit. Luckily I was wearing goggles but my arm looked like it had been sandblasted. Hurt like a sumbitch for a couple days. I shudder to think what would have happened if I wasn't wearing goggles or if the tank been fully-pressurized.

Also, make sure you're at least wearing goggles when spraying fertilizer or pesticide. You never know when the wind is going to change direction and blow mist back at you.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Acanthus
80 is borederline needing glasses to drive, things look blurry in the distance etc.

20/80 is OVER the line in Oregon, you have to be 20/40 in at least one eye to be legal to drive.

I suspect most states are similar.

I barely meet it (with my left eye), my right eye is so heavily scarred I'm lucky to see 20/80 on a VERY good day with brand new contacts.

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