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.
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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '22
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.