Wear safety glasses!

[72GREENC10]

let me put this is, i wear dirt biking goggles when i use the grinder, the cover most of my face, but it seems everytime i dont wear them, the sparks always seem to go torwards me, i have had a few times where the sparks had hit my eye lids, and its not worth it, always wear some kind of safety glasses

[sdelmar]

A friend of mine almost completely lost vision in one eye while using a bench grinder at work. His pupil now looks like a cat's pupil. When they drilled into his eye to remove it, they were unable to remove the sliver without it tearing his eye up pretty bad!

[nlped]

The dirt bike goggles is a great idea! I have made the trip to the Eye Foundation in Birmingham to have a rather large piece of metal drilled out of my eye...It definitely sucked! I have had one other occurance of metal in the eye, but I immediately got my "magnet on a stick" and fished around really close to my eyeball and actually got it out. But, again, the goggles thing is uber smart!

[fbird68]

I had the use of protective lenses put into perpective for me by a guy at work. I would be lazy sometime, figuring it's a quick job...will only take a second. A fellow worker would bug me about and I would joke saying that I have safety contacts in.
One day he shrugged his shoulders and said "Hey, if you want to take a chance that you won't see your boys grow up, be my guest."
I always use all personal safety equipment available now, for any job I am doing.

Richard

[joe1982]

Something similar happened to me, I always wear eyepro, AND hearing protection!!!! i had a hot spark land in my ear! that was a very S++++Y couple of days

[pat 70/71]

I was welding the under side of a rocker on my truck with safety glasses and a welding helmet on and had a piece of metal get in my right eye! it was not fun and yes I developed a rust spot in under ten minutes ER visit with surgery! please everyone it happens! and good glasses are so cheep! do it! cheers, Pat

[tow guys]

I just got home from an eye doctor visit for rusted metal in my eye. He removed it without incident or permanent damage(I hope) but boy does it hurt!
I will NEVER again work in the garage without eye protection.
Looking into over the glasses goggles as I type.