I was using a wire wheel cleaning off my floor pan getting it reay to pu it in and not wearing goggles. I didn't really have any problems, every once in a while something would hit me in the face and one or two things hit me in the eyes. While I was taking a break to let the compressor fill back up I went to clean off my face when something caught my eye (pun not intended, well maybe). Here's what it was. It took tweezers to get it out, it looked weird pulling it out 'cause it was pulling out that area.
......I've done that too - and while wearing Safety Glasses too !! Wire fragment flew off the wheel, bounced off my cheek and UP Under the glass lense into my eye FULL GOGGLES ARE A MUST !!!
I've gotten hot grinding sparks in my so many times I'm practically on a first name basis with the staff at the hospital emergency room! (just kidding)......well, it has happenned to me at least 5 or 6 times, each time I was wearing at least a face shield. It's amazing how those sparks can rickochet and land on your eyeball! They had to numb my eyes and take the "metal fleck" out with a tweezers under a microscope thingy! The light is so bright I didn't know what hurt more........staring into it (and I was not allowed to move my eyeball) or watching the tweezers come toward my eye! And I could hear it snap when it slipped off the "fleck"! Then I had to wear a patch on my eye for a day and put drops in b/c of the rust spot on my eyeball. :shock: I don't know if anybody else has ever had to have that done, but I'd rather have my ba**s pounded flat with a rubber hammer than go through that again. When I grind out welds, I now use a face shield AND goggles. ou:
Well wouldn't ya know it I gotta a rubber hammer right here :grin: The picture doesn't really show how deep it went in, it was about half of the visible length in
Welcome to the club your dues are $100 a week for acting without thinking. Not only am I a member but i'm the president. I had to have my eye scrapped one time to get a chunk of metal out. NOT FUN
I would like to thank my mamma and..... oh sorry wrong club. I have had to get pieces of metal gotten off of my eye but having it in my eye was a little different
Wow, consider youself lucky, if it hit the eye itself and you pulled it out the fluid would leak out and you would only have 1 eye. Glad you are A ok.
I've been to the ER several times to have metal fished out of my eyeballs and scratches cleaned and medicated. The weird dye and blue light are my friends. One time laid me up for a couple of days with a patch on my eye........and I wasn't running a grinder or anything like that. I was moving a ballast for a fluorescent fixture and the wire whipped across my eye.......Ouch! Dave
I've been wheeling on the Riviera most of the winter and have always worn goggles. When sandblasting outside I wear goggles with a face shield over them. So a couple weeks ago my left eye starts to bother me and gets all red.. I mean RED. But I figure it will clear up until my wife decides for me that I better see the doc. It's only been two weeks. So this morning I go to my optometrist and he mags it up, says I have some long winded medical condition that can be cured easily with a prescription. Ok, but I reiterate that I've been grinding, wheeling, sand-blasting.. so he takes a look under my eyelid and finds a single rouge eyelash that had found it's way into a duct on the underside of the lid. He said only the very end was visible and the whole deal was at least 1/8" long. When he exclaimed "Holy COW!" as he was pulling it out I figured it was metal or glass (Silica). More like an ingrown hair.. sheesh. For Pete's sake cover your eyes. Losing an eye due to lack of protection is akin to getting killed by lightning on the golf course cuz you only have a couple holes to go.. STUPID!
Eww. I decided to grind under the hood one day and got something in my eye. Never saw anything in the mirror but I sure felt it. I couldn't keep my eye closed and it was all watery (to the point that I couldn't see out of that eye) for a few hours. For all I know, it's integrated itself into my eye or fell out right away. o No: Might have gotten even more crap in my eye but I wear regular glasses.
I was at the eye doctor two years ago with a wire wheel bristle stuck straight into my eye. It was about 3/4" long.
I was working in a pipe fabrication shop in Az many years ago.The Foreman always chewed us out for not wearing our safety glasses while running the lathes.I personally was one of two people who wore our glasses during work.I had a sliver shoot up and bounce off my cheek,off my glasses and into my eye.I told my boss it felt as though I had something in my eye,He jumped on me about not wearing my glasses,but shut his mouth when a few of the guys told him I don't take my glasses off except at break and lunch.so we washed them out in the sink.I felt ok for a day or two,but then it started to really irritate me.He sent me to the Doc and sure enough it was a sliver of metal embedded in my eye. July of 2003,I was turning a rotor and sure enough,the same thing happened.I rinsed out my eyes and felt ok.July 4 went to my wifes (Fiancee at the time) Uncles house and we shot a ton of fireworks.We got back into town late that night,and since I live in another state,her parents told me to spend the night.I woke up the next morning and could not open my eyes.They hurt so bad,my wife took me to a Dr and told them the situation.They commented,that is what happens with fireworks.I informed them that I am an Auto Tech and it occured a few days earlier at work,but thought I had gotten the metal out. They took me to a room and put green dye in my eye,and wanted tme to open my eyes all the way.I had to have them turn off all the lights so I could open my eyes.It was soo cool.Everything was green.Neon green to be exact.My wife and all the nurses were looking at my eye and commenting that it was so wild seeing my eye that color.They found the sliver,but never took it out.I spent the weekend at my wifes house until I went to work Monday and went to a real Dr.Had to wear a patch for a day and have the Gen Serv guys pull my cars in and out,plus test drive everything for me. It was a miserable 4 days,but was kinda cool.My 4 year old step daughter would not leave my side,she was just the most precious thing.
That almost made me sick to my stomach. Getting stuff in my eyes is the thing that bothers me the most, I'd rather tear the skin off my knuckles than get a bug in the eye. I can even imagine that!
Isn't it horrible? The worst part is that you don't really know there's something in there until a few hours later.........you can't sleep, bright lights make your eye tear, and the worst thing is when you look in the mirror you can't see anything! And the more you rub it the redder it gets! It's the closest thing to hell I can think of......but then again, look what happenned to John Bobbitt. :laugh: ou:
At this time I'd like to use a quote from the movie Shrek 2.... "Welcome to the club, we've got jackets...."
