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guyf2000
29th Apr 2020, 11:22 AM
This is a brief description of a recent experience to remind people like me what happens when karma bites your butt.

I'd worked many years in the power industry. Even though an office worker, trips to manufacturing and test sites meant lectures and strict adherence to simple and basic safety rules. No open toed shoes, wear goggles, know where the emergency power shutoff is, stay in marked aisles, don't get under heavy bits, etc. Motivation was clear as injuries from flouting rules could be crippling, fatal, sometimes even embarassing.

Now I've retired and I'm my own safety officer. Of course I screwed up around the time covid was heating up. Just a little bit of grinding and using a cutoff wheel without goggles. I'd assumed my glasses would protect my eyes. They'd always done so. Nope. I suffered from a day of eye irritation before deciding to visit expensive professionals to remove bits of grit from one eye.

An emergency room person numbed my eye, poked around with a sharp thingie all the while saying to keep my focus still and unmoving or I'd have a worse injurie. She sounded irritated. Then to an opthamalogist for mopping up. More numbed eye, more sharp things and then a buffer; smooth out the rough spots? Better attitude though and more reassuring.

Anyway, no damage done, only a few days dealing with eye irritation and many dollars spent unneccesarily.

Regards,
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BobL
29th Apr 2020, 11:28 AM
Good reminder.

Table below from a 1996 Vic study on DIY injuries.
VISS presentations = hospital emergency presentations
VISS Admissions - admitted into hospitals
Those ladders have something to answer for - or least the users of the ladders?
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Grahame Collins
30th Apr 2020, 08:59 AM
Hi guyf2000

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Angle grinders create a draught in which metal and rust particles are picked up and can find themselves on the wrong side of safety glasses and face sheilds.Or alternately particles can be find their way into our hair and later be dislodged into our eyes. I have had both happen in 50 year career in Metalfabrication.

The safety glasses prevents the high speed direct impact to the eye surface.

Even with glasses and face sheild it is still possible to have a FB lodged in your eye.


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BobL
30th Apr 2020, 11:14 AM
I have several pairs of goggles in my shed but I prefer to use a full face shield like this one.

The photo shows a custom made thin kerf cutting saw and metal dust extraction (red arrow) that catches most of the sparks coming off the top of the wheel.
I have lifted the guard (plastic shield and Al angle arm) and held it in place with a small plastic spring clamp so the sparks that escape the dust collection can be seen.
The vast majority of the sparks are squirted under the saw table into a baked bean can. That can gets real hot when extended cutting takes place.

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TIG_Is_My_Jam
1st Jun 2020, 06:17 AM
I have several pairs of goggles in my shed but I prefer to use a full face shield like this one.

The photo shows a custom made thin kerf cutting saw and metal dust extraction (red arrow) that catches most of the sparks coming off the top of the wheel.
I have lifted the guard (plastic shield and Al angle arm) and held it in place with a small plastic spring clamp so the sparks that escape the dust collection can be seen.
The vast majority of the sparks are squirted under the saw table into a baked bean can. That can gets real hot when extended cutting takes place.

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Whenever I am grinding I prefer a full face shield such as yours. You never know what can happen if you use just the googles. A burnt lip, a scar somewhere on the face and etc. The worst case scenario is if a metal piece breaks off or a grinding stone breaks and a piece flies to the face or the neck. You can never be too safe so it is always good to put on safety gear. It is also somewhat of a civic duty too.. but not to get into such talks. But just to say my opinion. If you are safe and healthy than the doctors have more time to help those that got hurt by no fault of their own.. :)

old1955
1st Jun 2020, 02:46 PM
Welcome to the forum.