I never knew that the eyeball could repair itself in as little as 24-48 hours from a serious injury, until Sunday!! ((Amazing what you learn at the ER for a couple hundred bucks~)) BTW, ER's are not cheap, going blind is even less cheaper (( :confused: )) LOL, ummmm, how about pricey and pricier??!! (nuts)

I made a mistake of not wearing my safety glasses Sunday night prying off a piece of brass stuck on with that industrial 3M tape. Stuck a pair of pliers right smack dab in the middle of my eyeball, see the first picture (teary photo), the thing that looks like a hair is actually a really deep cut. I hit myself so hard I was almost knocked out. (BTW, I have a medical condition where I do not bruise very much so don't let the second picture taken today make you think it wasn't a dangerous accident. For me to bruise at all is quite an accomplishment!)

I always wear my glasses around my machinery but I never considered hand tools all that dangerous. "It all just happened so fast," finally happened to me. I guess I'm not superman but then again, as fast as I healed and with the beard, I might just be Wolverine after all!

Praise God that my vision is almost back, although a bit blurry yet after only 48 hours... Truly amazing~

Wear those glasses or face shields guys!! I learned the hard way but at least it wasn't permanent!!!!!!

What a stupid thing to do....Reminds me of the time I was prying with a screwdriver and put my front teeth through my upper lip and loosened said teeth....Again a stupid thing to do...Welcome to the club :thumbsup: And yeah I still have my teeth :D Glad to hear you're OK buddy :yes:

I learned the same lesson about how fast eyes heal when my infant daughter scratched me with her "razor claws". I just leaned in a bit too close. My eye healed fast, but was still slightly sensitive for nearly a year.

Glad you are OK.

hah!

when i was 7 or thereabouts, my father (tsk) left me unattended with a solering iron ( i was fairly obsessed with melting solder in to water to make 'bb's'

anyhow, i got disracted, looked away, and felt tingling on my face... i had touched the iron to my lips! it burnt the nerves before i noticed.. it was very painfull, i still remember it!


cool that your eye is not gone! i sometimes am tempted to not use goggles, but i always do... not that they are going to stop a 10,000rpm chop saw blade that has somehow gotten loose!

Well I alway try to put my safety glasses ever for those 2 second jobs, trying to build a discipline. As yourself until got hit in the eye I was lazy to put them on. And now I wear the protection not only for drilling and turning and such but to protect the eyes from toxic CA glue fumes and others.

Its good you had it easy, both eyes are still on.
Keep the shield on.

Konstantin.

the main reason why I will never get my eyes corrected.

sam

such a wise lesson...

i even wear my glasses when working on my motorcycles or car.. it's so easy to get something in your eyes, and it's just as easy to prevent it.

Glad to see your going to be Ok. I get made fun of at jobs for wearing Safety Glasses a lot. It doesn't make you cool not to wear them. I also get made fun of because I'm a bit slow, but it is when your in a RUSH that Accidents happen.

Keep those glasses on and keep your Cool when under pressure and you'll be fine.:)

Cheers Buddy and get well soon.:cheers:

Thanks for reminding us how important it is to use common sense when doing anything that could be potentially dangerous.

I've been treated for eye injuries three times, and it's no fun.

Ironically, two of those times, I was wearing safety glasses and still managed to get a cast iron chip in my eye.

The ER doctor used something like a Dremel tool to grind the iron out.

Now I wear a full face shield (and ear plugs).

....I get made fun of at jobs for wearing Safety Glasses a lot.....I also get made fun of because I'm a bit slow....

The kind of mind that makes fun of this type of behaviour is incomprehensible to me. But that does not stop me getting really pissed off with people who think it is funny or sissy to wear protective equipment. I have found seeing with two eyes and counting with ten fingers a distinct advantage in my life.

The kind of mind that makes fun of this type of behaviour is incomprehensible to me. But that does not stop me getting really pissed off with people who think it is funny or sissy to wear protective equipment. I have found seeing with two eyes and counting with ten fingers a distinct advantage in my life.

How very true Geof;) . They can poke fun all they want, and when they lose an eye, finger, or hand because of being stupid, I don't think they will be laughing.

The old saying goes, "He who has the most toys when they die wins". In my book, "He that dies with all their body parts wins".

Let them poke fun, we know better, and I don't get pissed at anyones stupidity unless it is going to affect the other coworkers or myself.

Too many Gung Ho Ego Control Freaks in Machine Shops these days.:eek:

Wow, glad your ok m8. Can't believe it was just a pliers....I never wear safety glasses when using pliers....or a hammer...or sometimes the drill....geeze, guess I'll be more careful in future.

The kind of mind that makes fun of this type of behaviour is incomprehensible to me. But that does not stop me getting really pissed off with people who think it is funny or sissy to wear protective equipment. I have found seeing with two eyes and counting with ten fingers a distinct advantage in my life.


Most of the time i make fun of people who DON'T wear their glasses when grinding , milling or Turning.. things like "So.. yoy want a Dog?.. "... "huh?.. what do you mean?.. ".. "Well a Golden Retriever, or a Labrador?.. they come with a red and white stick as well".. that usually does the trick..:withstupi

I watched enough of the right safety films as a kid and don't want to end up "dissadvantaged". I have worn safety equip. at home for simple tasks, like grease splatter! But some times you can't win. Few years back I worked a temporary job operating spot welding machines (job title was get this: Butt welder, bottom welder) for a company that had two machinists for jigs and general repair work. Had one guy there that refused to wear any safety glasses. Said He's been a machinist for over twenty years and never needed them. I tried to tell him "it only takes once". Which set the standard for others in the factory, who also thought they were in no danger.

It only takes once to loose it.

Nice pictures! Might find those in high school safety presentations.

Ever run a grinder without safety glasses only later to find little black specks of stuff plainly visible in the white part of your eyes? Safety glasses for me from now on...

Oh, the worst eye injury I ever had (honestly borderline my worst injury in general) was at the breakfast table... the person sitting next to me turned the paper in a crazy way that hit my eye causing a paper cut on my eye. Sounds like a completely wussy injury but I wish that you never have recurrent cornea erosion that a simple paper cut started.

Accidents happen in sorts of crazy places.

I believe in 0 tolerance for safety glasses. I'll fire in a heartbeat.

Well here is something.... I wasnt wearing anything..I had my head inside the Machine and the tool did a tool change (in a CNC Mill) Noticed that the tool life had run out..So i changed the tool..When i did that i must have only put it in 10-20mm longer and that was enough to grab the top of the job as i was moving across to measure it on the censor...A 32mm long series HSS endmill (talking 250mm long) grabbed the top of the job and snap blew up and a peice about 50mm can flying towards me and smacked me right on the nose..Broke it in two places and had 4 stiches.... now just a little scar!!!!

Well, other than a little itch at times, it seems to have healed 97% or so... Not perfect but not to shabby either!

i had touched the iron to my lips!

when i was learning to weld i started with oxy-fuel. i finished a bead and stuck the filler rod in my lips to hold it. it would have been nice if the instructor had offered advice not to to that when he was going over the safety portion beforehand. ...ok, maybe not. i was 21 at the time, to make it worse.(chair)

glad my first post is such a great contribution! i look forward to learning and sharing. lesson 1: a table is a better filler rod holder than your lips. lesson 2: will likely be more intelligent than lesson 1.

my dad taught me the safety thing early. i wear safety glasses now like sunglasses when i am working on projects and i buy only impacted rate sunglasses.
darwin will come for those who don't wear the safety gear..

A few years ago I had a scare when I was milling brass with a little desktop Sherline. A piece of brass chip flew off the part, around my prescription glasses, and into my eye. It took me ~30 minutes to get it out with wet paper towel. Not fun...scared the crap out of somebody who's too itchy about his eyes to even use contact lenses. Four years later I've graduated to bigger and better machines and ALWAYS wear the biggest, nerdiest looking safety glasses I can find.