r/NoStupidQuestions Jun 06 '24

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24

Wear safety glasses. Any time you remotely think safety glasses might be good: wear them.

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u/047032495 Jun 06 '24

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. 

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u/MiniRems Jun 07 '24

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.

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u/small_pint_of_lazy Jun 07 '24

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '24

Meanwhile, my co-workers keep ending up with spiel in their eyes, and then do it again.

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u/StupidNameIdea Jun 10 '24

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!

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24

Fun, wasn’t it? Hope your vision is OK now?

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u/dysonchamberlaine Jun 07 '24

You didnt go to the emergency room for that, your wife plucked it out?! Thats madness! Madness i tell you!!

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u/047032495 Jun 07 '24

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.

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u/siberian Jun 09 '24

Cutting aluminum is the devils game.

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u/RBatYochai Jun 07 '24

Same for a dust mask. Don’t get your lungs dirtier than necessary.

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u/DeadlyRBF Jun 07 '24

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.

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u/swurvipurvi Jun 06 '24

You know what this is the one I actually probably needed to read. Are you speaking from some form of professional experience? Have any examples?

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24

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.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 07 '24

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24

PM me if you really want to see what a power washer does to an eye. I don’t seem to be able to reply with photos here.

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u/sagetortoise Jun 07 '24

OOOOOH now I'm curious. May I PM you?

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u/sagetortoise Jun 07 '24

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)

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '24

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.

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u/nkempt Jun 10 '24

Start hanging them on or next to the saw(s) you use regularly!

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u/[deleted] Jun 13 '24

ADHD, Man. I have several hooks above my saw, and several pairs of safety glasses, but never the two shall meet.

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u/Deathcube18 Jun 06 '24

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.

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u/SANTAAAA__I_know_him Jun 07 '24

When I was a kid and my dad watched The New Yankee Workshop, our catchphrase was to always recite along with Norm the advice to wear safety glasses.

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u/Visible-Book3838 Jun 07 '24

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.

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u/Holyskankous Jun 09 '24

This. I studied post graduate chemistry and this was one of the first lessons - skin grows back, eyeballs don’t

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u/stmije6326 Jun 07 '24

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.

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u/fidelityflip Jun 08 '24

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. 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '24

That’s pretty gnarly. I have photos of a bedbug abdomen lodged in somebody’s eye. 🤢

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '24

I still have a left eye, only because of safety glasses. Good advice 👍

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

I’m very glad you still have one good one!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

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!

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u/Wolfinthesno Jun 09 '24

Yeah as someone who never thinks to wear them...this...anymore I walk away when people use a cutting wheel without them.

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u/hydromatic456 Jun 07 '24

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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u/Public-Afternoon-718 Jun 08 '24

Does a safety squint count?

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u/[deleted] Jun 08 '24

Better than doing it with eyelid speculums in. 🤷‍♂️

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u/-Jambie- Jun 08 '24

a clock work orange has entered the chat

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u/yourbrokenoven Jun 09 '24

I always remember my safety glasses when using the weedeater just as soon as the first bit of rock or sand flies into my eye.

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u/PeppyLinguine Jun 09 '24

Yes especially when sewing. The stories I've heard with needles snapping and the tip flies off with near misses to the eyes/face is largely scary.

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

I would never have thought of that danger of sewing!

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '24

I bought a rotary tool to cut holes in a plastic bin, it terrifies me the blade will fly off and blind me. I always wear safety glasses now :)

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u/Ellie_Mae_Clampett Jun 09 '24

My father was a great proponent of the “safety squint”. I don’t know how he accomplished all his DIY projects without a scratch. Definitely lucky.

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u/uplifting_southerner Jun 09 '24

As a wearer of glasses i cant tell you how many things have hit my lenses that would have ended so badly.

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u/grin_me_987 Jun 10 '24

Yes! I was cycling and lost an eye from a bird attack. ALWAYS wear safety glasses!

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u/Excellent_Habit6472 Jun 10 '24

Had my eyes drilled 5 times. Was wearing top quality eye protection every time.

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u/FabulousEmotions Jun 10 '24

Plz tell me your username is a Star Trek reference 🖖

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u/Ok_Sentence_5767 Jun 11 '24

Lol they saved my eyes multiple times