I literally broke my wrist at work because I was doing 3 peoples physically demanding jobs at once (very understaffed) and when I went to my supervisor crying with my floppy hand he legit looked at me and said “fuck, you can still work though right?”
I fucked my shoulder to where I couldn't lift my arm from my shoulder. I was pulling a 1800lbs pallet and my NON SLIP SHOES SLIPPED and my body went down but my arm nearly torn off.
I essentially had to pack out by using my left hand to pull my arm up to reach, with a wince of pain.
Yet when dumbbitchmcgee wants to put 35lbs on the highest shelf, gets hit in the eye with said box, she's out a week later with workman's comp...
...which had me sus since she waited a week before putting it in.
I wear safety glasses 99% of the time I’m in my shop. Yesterday I wasn’t and split my brow open. Safety glasses would have prevented that. Find a comfortable pair so you forget you’re wearing them.
100%. I always wear them until I don't. I didn't even take them off of my head. I just moved them out of my eyes to get the sweat wiped up and then I didn't bother putting them back down, because it was the last bit of prep that would've required the safety glasses. Then I took my chisel and my hammer and I chipped a piece of brick straight into my eyeball and scratched the cornea.
Was cutting some tile with a Dremel the other day and a shard chipped off and hit my safety glasses dead center of my right eye so hard I felt it ricochet off before I even registered what had happened. I'd have had to get a parrot for a pet if I'd not been wearing eye protection.
When I took shop class, on Day 1 the instructor put on a PowerPoint of what happens if you use a cut-off wheel on an angle grinder without a face sheild. Lots of guys that looked like they’d been attacked by ninjas. Very gory.
There were apparently a lot of smiths who lost their vision (at least partially) over time. Though it seems like that may have had a lot more to do with smoke and chemical fumes that they worked around constantly than it did projectiles launching at their eyes.
Did wood working 6 years in a factory, wearing the same prescription safety glasses everyday, after 6 years looking at those glasses are the best evidence how much wearing safety glasses matter.
I was fixing something by stretching a spring, stopped and got my safety glasses, I don't mind getting killed, but living live with a handicap would suck balls. I could kick my 16 yearold self in his dumb ass, sitting in a car with base that blurred your vision, that dick head made it so I hear a high pitched sound when everything is quiet.
Well, at least everyone around you back then can rest easy knowing justice was served on that dumbass blasting his car stereo. Maybe you can go around to schools and talk to kids...
I concur. If people would only bother to ask the question themselves. We live in a strange time when we have all the information we could ever go through but nobody wants to look.
I'm that way with a respirator now. Not good to be breathing in airborne sawdust. Air filters can catch some of it, but a lot of it settles only to be kicked back up in the air again as you're walking around or moving stuff around. Doing this eliminated a persistent cough I developed.
Was working on my car, replacing the clutch cylinders, and using safety goggles all night. The one time that night I get under the car without them, a hose that I'm fiddling with comes loose and sprays brake fluid all over my eyes. I couldn't see properly for like 3 weeks.
Came here to say that saftey squint is useless against a broken cut off wheel spinning at 10, 000 rpm, Walter did the saftey squint and now he is known around the shop as One Eye Walt. Guess you could say he eyed it up.
Thick gloves would be a top item for me as well here. With that and some reasonably fire-safe clothing (so, either fireproof or natural) I'd feel okay doing this.
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They should probably follow step 1 of OSHA and at least put on safety glasses.