should've known better - take heed!!

[beermaker]

You'd think, as an engineer and as someone with several blind spots already, that I would know better than to use an angle grinder without goggles, but it was just a "quick job" to modify the burner stand on the brewery. Eye is a bit sore now for my stupidity, serves me right for taking shortcuts.

 

[Bluezephyr]

I remember when I was a kid my sister going to the doctors to have some metal removed from her eye as she stood behind my dad when was using his grinder.

At work h+s is a bit overbearing sometimes, 'nothing is so important we cannot take the time to do it safely' it's been drummed into us so much I don't hesitate to use ppe.

 

[dennisking]

ouch

 

[Goat Boy]

Same thing happened to me in work many moons ago when I was on the tools. I actually did have my safety glasses on over my prescription gigs and the blighter still found a way in. Strange sensation in the hospital when they numbed my eye and went at it with a cotton bud. Could see the bud moving across me eye but couldn't feel a thing. Weird.
Hope you got it out mate. Try to resist the urge to rub after you do. Might feel like it's still there but it'll prob just be the scratch it left behind. :geek:

 

[beermaker]

Still agog that I was so stupid. I even used to be a H&S officer in a factory where I was production manager so I have no excuse!! I wouldn't care but the burner mods aren't going to plan!! More angle grinder work tomorrow, goggles on this time!!

 

[AlliDelta]

I once cut a cast iron bath in half with a grinder. Had the goggles but no mask.

Black bogies for a few days and a fizzy nose for a week!

 

[beermaker]

Mmmh, black bogies!! Sounds familiar!! I started renovating houses with my dad when I was three with my little wheelbarrow full of cement and three houses later, one of which is over three hundred years old, I still have black bogies! Vive Le air chisel and stihl saw!

 

[Grumpy Jack]

As a teenager I worked a summer in a factory and spent a few days grinding muck and rust off of steel girders. Wore safety goggles until I took them off to brush away some dust and bingo, metal shard in my eye. The experience of having a scalpel rubbed across your eye whilst you cannot feel a thing is one I would prefer not to repeat! :sick:

 

[Megaross]

I had the issue with a bit of brick, I also nearly cut my foot off on the same job...

Amazing how the grinder only cut the trainer and stopped just before hitting flesh.

Needless to say I'm more careful with actually wearing PPE nowadays.

 

[Bluezephyr]

I just remembered I was doing abit of labouring on a barn conversion about 10 years ago, mixing lime mortar and a bit splashed out of the mixer into my eye, 2 litres of saline solution in A&E with litmus paper placed on my eyeball to test the alkalinity before and after. Wore sunglasses for a few days afterwards. I was wearing goggles and took them off after shoveling the mix in but as I walked past to check if it was ready
I made furniture for 10 years and the only ever thing that happened was someone didn't put the radial arm saw back to the stop, i offered some timber up to the stop near the blade and took a few layers of skin off, could have been worse :shock: .

 

[Jeltz]

Replacement eye technology

 

[Baldbrewer]

Sadly we seem to remove our "work" heads when we get home, we had to wear bump caps when I worked for coke moaned all day at work about them "too hot" "pain in the ****" etc

Then working at home I stood straight up under a beam in the loft and promptly removed a portion of my scalp! Now as my profile is "Baldbrewer" by f*** it hurt cos there was nothing to stop it.
Lesson learnt ;-) I now look like a forestry commission worker when using the chainsaw as opposed to flip flops and sunnies as my Mate did in Belize and promptly unzipped his stomach from crotch to breastbone ! :sick: