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Im sure everyone on here are sensible enough to wear googles and safety equipment when working in the garage, but for those who pass on the safety after today i cant express enough how important it is.

I was cleaning a sensor with compressed air in the clean room at work when i felt a sharp sting in my eye. on further inspection i found i had a metal splinter embedded in my iris. felt uncomfortable and scratchy but not the end of the world.
Went to the eye hospital to have it removed and thats where the flash backs to the SAW movies began. the doctor started by propping my eye open, then poking around with a needle. it took everything i could manage not to run out the door. eventually the splinter was removed leaving a rust hole in my eye "FUCK" was my first thought. im thinking ok maybe he'll give me antibiotics and it will go. NO !!!! reaching over he pulls out a mini grinder not dissimilar to something you'd port a head with, i thought he was joking, but no. imagine the dentists drill but wizzing towards your eye.

seriously i never want to go through that again, accidents happen , but please wear googles when nesscerary.

Chris

1972 998 TURBO SLEEPER

that sounds grim mate!!

you ok now?

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my mum works in opthalmics as a sergical nurse, she has taken all sorts of things out of peoples eyes from automotive incidents, glass, metal, plastic even latex from gloves...

Edited by Paul R on 12th Jan, 2011.

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I've been through that, had a wooden splinter though.

Did you get the yellow eye drop?!

I've been to hospital with crap in my eye. not fun. I was wearing goggles, knocked some crap out of my hair when I took them off...

At least no lasting damage was done to your eye!

ive been wearing goggles and still got stuff in my eyes! luckily it never stuck in my eye

its just one of those things at the end of the day, thankfully i didnt have to have the yellow stuff, have done in the past. not pleasant.

1972 998 TURBO SLEEPER

That does not sound nice, glad you got away with it! i always wear glasses now, one too many near misses with the wire brush drill attachment.

I wear a flip down full face mask, much less farking about

i do too andy, hate getting the wire barbs from the angle grinder attachment stuck in my face. hate to think what would happen if one of these went into your eye

1972 998 TURBO SLEEPER

On the other hand....
Whilst lying under my car grinding and welding the underside of my boot floor I was wearing all the gear. Eye protection, ear defenders, dust mask. So basically I couldn't see, smell or hear the foot high flames that were raging up above inside the boot lol.
That got my attention

Edited by dazibee on 12th Jan, 2011.

not always full proof though unfortunatly. At work there was 3 of us working around this car, 2 doing seam welding and myself doing grinding work. somehow, between the three of us my boss managed to get some shite in his eye, apparently bounced across the surface of one eye then bedded itself in the other eye.
And that was on new years eve, he spent hours in A&E with all the pissed up folk at 3am to be told they couldnt do anything and was refered to another hospital the next day...so was stuck with this metal in his eye for the time.

David.

been there too - the doc was able to tell me what colour of car I had been grinding!

I now wear protective glasses, not disimilar to oakleys - they are comfy so no issues keeping them on and they wrap around so give reasonable protection as well. got them from Arco for around £8

The problem with goggles etc is that they steam up on me. does anybody else have this problem? Found any way round it?

Cheers Rob, just placed an order for some new protection

1972 998 TURBO SLEEPER

Edited by Rob Gavin on 13th Jan, 2011.

I've done a bit of diving, rubbing spit over the lense then a quick rinse stops them steaming up.

My goggles had a little vent you could pull out to let them breat a bit. Like a little clear grommet. I've had shit drop in my eyes from working on the car, not from grinding, but crud under the arches falling. I don't like the not being able to see or hear properly thing though.

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one of them took in all my t shirt! luckily it wasnt an angle grinder wheel, it was a drill one, soo not much torque to rip my chest off :$