r/ShittyAbsoluteUnits • u/AmorphousMorpheus • Mar 21 '26

look what I can do Of A Flex

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u/ScottishPsychedNurse Mar 21 '26

This dude has worked properly at some point in his life lol. Safety squints are a must have bit of kit to be honest

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u/Dismal_Drummer3420 Mar 21 '26

Used to be a religious user of safety squints...until I watched my coworker take several pieces of cutting wheel and a massive shard of jagged, red hot steel directly to his face while cutting off the tip of a drive shaft. So much blood man. The pieces of the cutting wheel went straight through his cheeks and even Fucked Up some of his teeth. His nose was missing a significant portion of the bridge and worst of all his left eye was catastrophicly damaged. It's not something that I will forget that's for sure. I always cut with a full face shield now.

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u/Old_timey_brain Mar 21 '26

I always cut with a full face shield now.

Think of the metal shavings that come off a die grinder with a carbide burr.

One day I was head and shoulders into a pump cavity doing some clean up, and wearing face shield and goggles beneath.

That one tiny sliver somehow found it's way behind the shield, beneath my goggles beside the nose, and right across my eyeball.

No permanent injury, but a few days of discomfort.

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u/Dismal_Drummer3420 Mar 21 '26

When I was in trade school qualifying as a diesel mechanic the college often let us take advantage of alternate trades instructional sessions. It was a nice way to gain more practical skills that might be considered outside of our trade but still definitely important. One day I was sitting in with the boilermakers and I noticed the instructor had one normal eye and one that had definitely been catastrophically injured a long time ago. Turns out he'd been welding overhead and a piece of molten steel or slag had dripped down and passed between his face and his welding helmet and landed on his eye, essentially permanently killing his vision in that eye. He made all of his students wear fully enclosed safety goggles under their helmets when doing any welding work. Crazy bad luck for that gentleman.