Could have been worse! Any more I hate wearing safety glasses but still feel naked without them even when say reading prints. I always feel something is going to come flying in from 50 ft away.

 

Glad to hear you are ok.This is just a reminder that what happens in second can last forever.be safe!!!

 

I,ll start off with WEAR THEM!!!I am guilty of not to often and went to ER last night.Thought had pc of slag in eye.Was chipping last night on the bucket and a big pc still hot hit in the right eye.So went to er doctor said nothing in there you burned the surface of your eye.Antibiotic cream,script for 325mg percocot.for pain.Still went and finished bucket though.

a while back I caught a grinding spark in my eye... wearing El-cheapo reader glasses..
by the time my stubborn *** got to the eye dr. It turned to rust and they had to remove it with some kinda abrasive brush..

I have since discovered safety glasses with magnifiers in them... I wear them religiously.

 

good thing your alright. i always told myself, if i ever screw up an eye permantely, i'd never weld or set foot in a shop again. if you lose one eye, the other eye is more than just 50% important, and just can't afford to lose it. i'm mobile welding, and not really in a shop, and i almost refuse to work alongside or in range of another welder or someone grinding. So many times, i have customers tell me, i;ll send you a helper to grind or whatever, and i explain my reasoning why its a no. i buy the safteyglasses litterally a dollar a pair, clear and tinted, or i wearing sunglasses. i got safety glasses on every dashboard of vehicle i get into, so there always there. at a dollar a pair, they may get cleaned by my shirt o time or two, and thats it. so there always a clear view. like mikecwik said, i feeel naked w/o them. i even wear them when working on automobiles etc.

 

Brah, I got so lucky in welding school because I was wearing them. It's not always just protection from flying debris. I was in my booth and the booth has a piece of square tubing welded onto the side like a cup to keep rod in. I had some 1/8 TIG wire already cut in half in there, and they tend to fan out because the tube is only about 6 inches high. I dropped a rod once and ducked down really quick to pick it up and my face stopped because one of the rods stuck me right in the center of where my right eye was behind my safety glasses. It was the cut end too, so razor sharp. If I didn't have the glasses on, it would have literally pierced my brain, and for how hard I hit it, probably could have went out the back of my skull. I'm glad it got right in the center and not glanced of them and stuck me in the face.

 

Wow. Today, I had to cut a piece of wood with a skill saw. I looked over at my glasses in the garage and thought I should probably put those on. "Nah, I'll be ok for this one short cut" Immediately as the blade first hit the wood, a chip plopped into my eye. "You gotta be kidding me!" I blinked it out and put on the safety glasses.

 

CONSTANTLY losing my glasses around the shop. Beginning to think the only solution is wearing them around my neck. But the other day had the same thing happen to me. I lifted my hood to get a better look at the weld and where else to continue and bam, slag popped off right into my Fing eye. ouch. but thankfully nothing lodged in there.

The hood only does so much, and wearing safety glasses even while it is down is probably best especially when grinding. (if your hood comes with a grinding disconnect feature like mine)

 

Bloke I worked with years ago lost an eye from a wire wheel.
Had been wearing his safety glasses religously, was packing up to go in for dinner when he spotted a small spot he missed on the old car he was cleaning up. Gave it "just a quick touch" without putting the glasses on, got a wire in his eye.

It was saturday afternoon, ambulance took him to local country town hospital and he was admitted, By the time the eye specialist saw him Monday, an infection had set in and they had to remove the eye. Nearly lost the other eye as well. He was off work for something like 6 months, then had to be moved to another area at work, with only one eye, he was not able do his old job, he could not adjust to the lack of depth perception.

So yes, religiously wear all PPE!

 

The hell hole I work at refused to buy 2 dollar safety glasses and provide face shields. They claimed that because I wear glasses its good enough, no side shields provided either. And if you made a claim you're getting wrote up, s strip torn off, insulted and degraded. After a few eye injuries I cant see properly anymore. I scared my corneas. Bright lights when driving day or night, welding, anything I get a glare from. Large streaks of light are very irritating and my welding isn't the same anymore. I went and bought $400 prescription safety glasses and made a compramise that if I bought my own head gear I could get the face shields provided. My welding career was nearly over.

 

I am not looking for a fight but you refused to buy two dollar safety glasses and spend twenty bucks for a face shield.

 

After some searching I finally found safety glasses with full lens 1.5 magnification here: https://www.northernsafety.com/Product/10570/
I've used them for about 6 months now. The bifocal style glasses with a small magnifier at the bottom of the lens are dime a dozen and don't suit my need. There may be others but northern safety was the only distributor I found who has these.

 

One place I worked, had a bench grinder equipped with a grinding stone and a wire wheel, on a small metal table. Eight feet up was a suspended ceiling. One day after having cleaned some rust off some parts I was working on, I noticed the ceiling was peppered with wires stuck in it. I had been wearing safety glasses. I started to get up there and pull them out, but decided to leave them as a reminder to others who used the grinder, too. Whenever I saw somebody about to use the grinder with out glasses I would try to hand them a pair, and most would say, "I don't need those". Then I would point to the ceiling and say, those came off that wire wheel you're about to use. I would mention that if they could go that high and stick in those ceiling panels, even having your eyes closed isn't going to help protect your eyes. The wires would just pin your eyelids closed to your eyeballs. Then they'd put them on. I don't think any of them could argue with the logic I had just presented to them.

 

I was still in high school but I was taking a night welding course at the votech school in Hope Ar in 1977. One night I was grinding at the big bench grinder, without safety glasses on, and another older fellow student in the class came up to me and jerked me away from the grinder and pointed to his left eye. The eyeball was still in place but it looked like a scrambled egg. He told me that if I didn't want this to happen to me I better get some glasses on. He kinda scared me at the time because he was bigger and much older, but he probably saved my eye sight. I have worn my glasses ever since then without fail. I can still see his eye ball.

 

I wear prescription glasses full time. All you had to do was look at all the pits in my old glass lenses from grinding sparks and OA cutting spatter to get an idea just what would have hit me in the eyes if I wasn't wearing them. Even so I've still had to get a small sliver dug out of my eye that managed to get around my glasses when I was working under a truck running an air impact wrench one time.

It was always been a toss up. Glass lenses don't scratch easily, but pit from hot sparks etc. Poly lenses won't pit, but scratch really easily. When I used to do a lot of concrete work and was always cutting concrete and getting grit on my glasses, I wore glass. Now it's getting harder and harder to get glass lenses, but since I don't do as much stuff that gets grit on the lenses, I've switched over to plastic. So for they seem to be doing well, knock on wood.

To me spending $300-400 on a top end pair of prescription safety glasses is cheap insurance. I'd happily pay 2 or 3 times that every year if I had to to keep my eyesight. The glasses I have now are anything but fashionable. I wear them any time I'm working and I've had people laugh at them. All I have to tell them is that I really don't care how I look to others as long as I'm still able to see them back, and that usually shuts most of them up.

Keep in mind by the time you need them, it's usually too late to put proper PPE on, what ever was going to happen already did.

 

I walked by a guy today knocking chipping off spatter. Safety glasses! I told him as he was not wearing them. He said I know, I been to the hospital a few times getting metal dug out.

I don't get it. Mostly because there is nothing to get got I am thinking.

 

That sucks!

I wear glasses pretty much always in the shop.

I buy them (I think 7) at a time from sams club for something like $12 for the pack. I scatter them everywhere in the shop so a pair is always within reach (or at a machine).

But even still, I sometimes catch crap that comes up from under the glasses, especially if I am using a grinder or something with its fan blowing up at me.

 

I wear these most all the time, have several pairs of clear & smoke. I made lanyards from an old fluke silicone test lead jackets, I feed them through the holes in the ear pieces, they fit tight, so I can pull the lanyard tight around my head. There's a couple of pairs in my truck, shop & house, so most anywhere I am I can grab a pair.
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