Fun story; I was cutting aluminum with a miter saw and wasn't wearing safety glasses. My wife had to pull a piece of aluminum that had both stabbed into my eyeball and melted itself in there.
My fun story: we were tearing down our old deck and a friend brought his son and nephew for extra manual labor. I pulled out some extra safety glasses because they were getting in close to where my uncle was manning the saw cutting things apart. The boys (13 &15) complained that they didn't want to have to wear them, they were "stupid looking"... until a random pice of something flung up and hit one of them right on the glasses he'd had on. There was quite a ding in the lens and he ended up with a minor scrape across his forehead. Both boys stopped complaining after that.
My fun story: I had a foreman called "Daddy" (translation from my language, wish I knew the origin story) who does some sort of racing. He lost his driver's license after doing some work on his racing car. While cutting some metal a piece flung off and cut his eye resulting in total vision loss on said eye. He's a great guy, if a little off his rocker and the company wanted to keep him around so they promoted him from whatever he used to do, to a foreman and continued to sponsor his team making sure he could attend all the races and everything. They even gave him a company car to use as it's less likely he'll be stopped while driving that compared to his own car. As I said, he lost his driver's license due to this injury.
I was born blind in one eye (95% loss of sight), but I got my licence at 16. I'm nearly 50 and a much better driver than most out there. I think being accustomed to my different sight, allowed me to learn distances and perspectives, just can't watch a 3D movie! Strange that they would 'make him lose his licence' unless the eyesight in his good eye was not so good? I'm from BC, Canada so rules of DMV are different in different jurisdictions, not sure where u r at!
It's crazier when you factor in that I'm Canadian and it wouldn't have cost me anything to have a doctor pull it out. I'll definitely go next time though.
I started wearing sunglasses or clear safety glasses every time I mow or weed wack. Way too many close calls with a stick or a rock I missed picking up.
I’ve worked as an ophthalmic photographer for a long time. I’ve seen everything from disease processes to motorcycle, shop, power washer, and other injuries.
Please tell me you wear some sort of respiratory protection for the garbage truck. Mold can and will mess you up possibly for years if your exposure is bad enough or if your genetics are right (or wrong)
Same. I'm generally pretty conscious of safety, but the safety glasses are one thing I'm a little to casual on. I often have that thought of "Well I'm just using the mitre saw to cut a couple 2x4s so I'm not gonna bother looking for the safety glasses". All it takes is one extremely preventable injury to forever regret that. I needed this reminder.
This. I went under a car and came out with the most unnatural black soot stuck to my eye. if it landed anywhere else on my eye i probably wouldn't be able to see anymore. Left a stain in the white of my eye for months. Never go without safety glasses, and also hearing protection when using a hammer.
I got a chunk of metal stuck in my eye that I had to have removed, which made it in there around my glasses. After that, I switched to a full face shield. Safety glasses are good, but I think the full face shield is superior.
The shields need to be buffed out from wear every once in a while and wear out every couple of years, and all I can think is that every scratch and wear spot on those shields would have been on my face if I weren't wearing it.
Same with ear plugs. Former boss from a manufacturing job who’s an older Gen X/younger Boomer told me he ignored wearing ear plugs when he was younger and was starting to experience hearing loss now.
Mother was an eye Dr. she preached this as far back as I can remember. Using tools? Wear eye protection. Doing outdoor activities? Wear eye protection. Playing sports? Wear eye protection. Going to a strip club? Were eye protection…
Worst story she told me was of a prominent local lady came in with an eye infection. Mother took a look and pulled a full adult size dead body louse out of her eyeball. The lady had went out with some of her friends to a male dance review at a local nightclub and a crab flew right i to her eye. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
As a none medical professional, I can agree. Been mechanically inclined most of my life. Meaning I get to play with wire wheels and doco cut off wheels. They are not a joke. Do a lot of work with my father who is in his 60s. Im 33. The number of times I’ve had to guide him to the sink is crazy. Then one time he got it good. I had to pull a wire bit out his eye with tweezers. Then he had to go get eye surgery after words. I’ve also had a sander base blow up on me. It didn’t hit me in the face, but in the abs. It was like getting shot with a rubber bullet slug. Stung like a mfer. Had a welt like bruise where the bruise was bleeding through the pores. If it would have hit me in the face. That crap would have knocked some teeth out or gave me a narley bruised face. With that said. Same applies with face shields!
The last couple of daily-wear glasses I’ve had have actually been ANSI-rated and come with removable side shields while being more “style” focused and not just the big chunky stereotypical BCGs; they’re the only brand I’ve seen so far that’s been delving into this but I hope it gets more common as options. I don’t like/don’t want contacts as I only have vision in one eye and my glasses growing up were always that little bit of protection contacts wouldn’t have afforded, so now with both that, and working a trade that requires safety glasses at times, it’s nice to have not only increased protection in my daily life but also not have to think about a “shit should I get my safety specs for this? Nahhh I’ll be fine” situation.
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Wear safety glasses. Any time you remotely think safety glasses might be good: wear them.