Always protect your eyes

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I was cutting some steel today with an angle grinder. Almost finished, I took a break and took off my visor.

Then a noticed a piece that needed a few seconds more cutting; not enough to make it worth putting the visor back on.

A flying piece of red hot metal landing on my eyelid reminded me that was a bad decision. I don't think I'll leave the visor off next time.
 
10 Minutes or 10 seconds, It's only the split second that makes the difference. we all push our luck but it's always better to wear your PPE.
 
One of my mates dads has a glass eye due to a DIY accident like this (can't remember exactly what he did)

I always wear goggles (well almost always ....!)
 
i never used to bother with goggles until a similar thing happened to me.
a red hot bit of swarf went flying into my eye.didnt hurt that much and i couldnt tell it had gone right in so i just thought it would wear out.
by the time i realised it wouldnt ,every little bit of light was reflecting off the metal and i was in agony,causing massive migranes and all sorts, i was virtually blind in that eye and very frightened to boot.
when i was in hospital i had to rest my head in one of those frames they use when their working out what glasses you need, while an eye specialist picked and scraped it out with a syringe needle.i wasnt allowed any painkillers or anesthetic,as they needed to know how my eye was reacting to what they were doing.
never,ever again have i done such a stupid thing
 
"Afraid of the dark?

Then wear your safety glasses"
 
yep,ive always put that down as the day the NHS saved my eyesight.
 
Had it today cutting a bit of 3/4 galvi pipe under floor and the disc basically exploded, Thank fek most of the disc went under the boards but still got a face full of shrapnel.
A mate has a saying your eyes are like your balls you only have 2 so don`t mess about with them
 
daytona said:
i never used to bother with goggles until a similar thing happened to me.
a red hot bit of swarf went flying into my eye.
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Same thing happened to me but I was wearing safety glasses, when I used to work in a metal foundry in Leeds.

Not a pleasant experience.
 
We all do silly things sometimes. I wear spectacles and didn't bother with goggles recently when I needed to cut through some conduit with a grinder. After the sparks had gone I found that my specs (glass lenses, not plastic) were well pitted from the sparks. Some could have escaped into my eyes but didn't. Won't do it again. I'm near retiring age - you'd think I'd know by now.
 
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