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Wear safety glasses!!🤓 Sitting here thinking about all the crazy things I've seen.

"Safety squints" don't work if a piece hardened steel decides to crack...
I've had a pair of glasses get cracked by tiny shrapnel from a forming die that exploded, so super glad I was wearing them.🤓

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

I know someone who was watching a worker chisel out a stuck bolt on a car and a little chunk of it flew up and hit him in the face right next to the eye. It traveled through the orbital space between the eye and the skull and ended up lodging there. The doctor wanted to do surgery to remove it but mulled it over and said there was a chance that could go wrong and he would be blind in the eye if it did. Safety googles would have prevented it. I watched him get a C-T scan and the technician was whooping with surprise at how that metal made the curve and lodged behind the eye.

Lilnonames · F

@cherokeepatti they was grinding on the roof of a truck once. I wasn't working was just walking past and a piece of metal hit me in the eye I had go to hospital and they used a tiny drill to u nlodge it. Had wear patch for two weeks and it left a black spot in my vision

Barny52 · 56-60, M

Yep true,, had metal splinter from a breaking drill stuck in my arm before it would of popped my eye ball !!

4meAndyou · F

I was an amateur lapidary. Used to grind and form pieces of stone and minerals. ALWAYS wore safety glasses.

TexChik · F

Duh! Always wear safety glasses if you are around machinery . Stuff will happen ! 😉

Tres13 · 51-55, M

No safety glasses no entry on work site

Vin53 · M

This isn't mandatory because.....,.why?

UnderLockDown · M

@Vin53 It is mandatory, but some people think they are invincible.🤷‍♂️

Vin53 · M

cough

@UnderLockDown

Vin53 · M

Were you 3 feet away from him?

Lilnonames · F

I always wear safety glasses at work

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