Poke in the Eye With a Sharp Stick

I find myself using a full face Harbor Freight face shield.

Hopefully its actually impact resistant?

Best part about that is , you HAVE to watch the needle go into you. Ungh.

splitime wrote: I find myself using a full face Harbor Freight face shield. Hopefully its actually impact resistant?

Resistant, yes.

Impervious, no.

Back in good ole Y2K I was working in Champaign, IL at a mall selling toy helicopters. The kind you put on a launcher pull a string and they launch. Well, I learned a valuable lesson. Don't use your assembly demo as your flight demo. I went to launch one and heard a slight flutter. Next thing I know PAIN. The lock had come off and I got a plastic blade in the eyeball. It somehow managed to get past my glasses. Six hours later in the emergency room they finally gave me something for the pain. I found out Demerol does nothing for me for pain, but it does make me really cranky until I pass out. I now have an astigmatism in my left eye that wasn't there before. I now have a pair of prescription safety glasses, but what with rust and grime and other bits that have gotten past them, I'm with Keith on the goggles.

Getting into my car today, I was startled by another vehicle that came screaming around a corner without stopping to check for other cars. I reacted quickly by yanking the door towards me, which drove the sharp corner of the door into the left lens of my ray bans. I have no doubt that there would have been serious damage to my eye if I hadn't been wearing them - but fortunately all I have to show for it is a bit of a shiner. The frames, surprisingly, are intact, but the lens has a deep scratch across its surface.

Ray-Bans FTW!

neon4891 wrote: My worst was some sriracha chili sauce a few weeks ago. I can imagine it must be similar to pepper spray.

Did it start burning again in the shower later? If so then you're close. We got sprayed in our academy......HOLY E36M3.... 1.You had to get hit in the eyes, 2. you had to perform a weapon retention drill after being hit with said spray. 3 they then brought you over to a bucket of water for your head....Now kiddies, water makes pepper spray worse, wasn't all that bad, stuck my head in the bucket, looked up and OPENED MY EYES......yup it burns, ALOT! 30 min later I'm in the locker room srubbing my face with dove soap, (again kiddies use a powder based soap, it absorbs the nasty oils....) get checked out by the doc on scene, ok you're free to go. My carpooling buddy gets cleared as well. It's a nice day, pop the tops on the f-body. Go cruising home, and a gust of wind came in the window and smacked me in the face...yup eyes watered up, guess what, pepper spray reactivates in water. Sitting on the side of the road, state trooper pulls up and asks if we're ok. See's our academy shirts, my eyes glued shut, and starts cracking up laughing. "It will wear off soon." Later that night jump in the shower not thinking about it. Guess what kids, gravity sucks!

Wow. I've been close to putting my eye out but somehow managed (probably through blind luck, nyuk nyuk) to avoid it. I got my wakeup call the day I was using a grinder with a wire brush to remove old Bondo, looked down and saw a BUNCH of little pieces of wire stuck in my sweatshirt.

I work for a group of Ophthamologists and we had a 6 year old little girl come in to the office today as an emergency work in. She had fallen into a bush on the playground and stabbed her eye on a broken branch. Her whole eye was swollen and she couldn't see out of it and it was very light sensitive. I didn't get to hear the ending diagnosis on her, but it was very painful to work her up and see the discomfort she was experiencing and how badly her eye had been damaged. One of my co-workers believes that the branch may have taken the film that covers the cornea off, but it's possible she sustained a lot more permanent damage.

I have very thick and health nails and while I was trimming my finger nails, one shot out of the clippers and got stuck between my eye and my lid. I struggled with it for over a half hour trying to get it out of my eye, and was about to wake up my roommate at the time and then it just popped out.

Lesley wrote: Be careful! There are much more fun ways to go blind

Ain't that the truth!!! And yes, protect your eyes. I got a "paper cut" on my cornea 4yrs ago, and its just starting to heal properly. Puts things in perspective really fast.

Keith wrote: I've actually started wearing goggles in the shop instead of safety glasses. They work a lot better even if they don't look as cool as fake sunglasses. I'm doing a lot of grinding/cutting under the car and there's lots of red hot eyeball damage flying around. For really fun situations, the face shield comes out too.

Yeah when I'm doing anything dangerous I always wear the "mega-dorky goggle type" safety glasses instead of the "fake sunglasses" type...the only reason I even have those is that the goggle-type ones fog up so damn fast they're unusable for some jobs.

Some years ago a fellow worker launched a bolt he was prying on and it bounced off my eyebrow and scratched my cornea. That was about as painful as anything I've ever experienced. It kept me wearing an eyepatch and mostly recumbent for about a week. I'm just glad it hit my eyebrow first or I might not be seeing out of that eye. I have had a metal particle go through the vent hole on the side of goggles. The best combination seems to be goggles and a face shield

GameboyRMH wrote:

Keith wrote: I've actually started wearing goggles in the shop instead of safety glasses. They work a lot better even if they don't look as cool as fake sunglasses. I'm doing a lot of grinding/cutting under the car and there's lots of red hot eyeball damage flying around. For really fun situations, the face shield comes out too.

Yeah when I'm doing anything dangerous I always wear the "mega-dorky goggle type" safety glasses instead of the "fake sunglasses" type...the only reason I even have those is that the goggle-type ones fog up so damn fast they're unusable for some jobs.

'tis true. If I'm doing lower-risk activities (lying under the car and accidentally dislodging old bits of undercoating, hammering, etc) I'll wear the glasses because I can keep 'em on all day and forget about it. When it's time to get serious (bathe in the angle grinder's glow, belt sanding, etc), I'll put the goggles on for the duration of the job and then flip them up on my forehead. Keeps 'em mostly clear.

I've never had an eye invasion, but there have been enough close calls to make me nervous. I also had lasik surgery in one eye a few months ago and that hurt badly enough for a day that I don't want to deal with it for any longer!