Here's the tip.....Don;t be a fawkin idiot like me---wear the safety gear EVERY TIME...it only takes a second....

Using an air-powered die grinder with wire wheel brush on it.

Only needed to strip 1" of paint - so stupidly didn't reach for the safety
glasses....

One of the little wires departed and embedded itself in my left eye.

Just spent a week in the hospital....they are going to try and restore my
sight with a lens transplant / replacement in about 10 days...looks hopeful
but no guarantees due to the damage.

So...FOR GOD'S SAKE WEAR THAT SAFETY GEAR EVERY TIME.

Don't learn the hard way like me.

:eek:

Good Luck. Hope everything works out for you.

Holy crap dude sorry to hear that...good luck...thank gawd for socialized medicine I guess. :eek:

Had a piece of steel removed form my eyeball a while back...it got in my eye after I was done for the day...I rubbed it, and it stuck in...I was actually wearing glasses the whole time...but had fileings all over me and one dropped off my forehead or something.


Was actually pretty cool having a miniature drill used on my eyeball, but other than that it scared the crap out of me because I htough I damaged it.

I try to wear safety glasses as much as possible...even wheeling in the sticks...those whipping branches hurt.

Good luck man hope all works out well...stay safe and let us know how ya make out.

MJ

Your story rings true. SAFTY CLASSE'S what more can be said. Hope every thing works OK.

Damn!! sorry Bill...

I am a dumbass too, and hardly ever wear goggles. I need to start being responsible.

shit, sorry to hear the bill............. i'm praying for the best outcome for you...........:(

:( Sorry to hear about that. I hope the transplant goes well. I'll keep my fingers crossed.





Eric

Bill, PBB is rootin' for you man, sorry about your misfortune.:(

Hang in there my friend.

Good lukc on the transplant man. Sorry it happened in the first place :(

Wish you a full recovery.
Hope it goes well for you.

Eyesight is something precious and should be protected at all times.

:eek: DAMN Bill!!!! sorry to hear that....hope the t/p goes well..... we're all pulling for ya.....


:usa:

I am extremely sorry to hear about this, Bill.
Thank you for telling of your unfortunate experience to warn others.
Hopeing for your speedy recovery ...

Sorry to hear this. I've had so much crap in my eyes removed the docs around here know me by name :eek: I even had a piece of wire come off an 8" grinder and go right through the safety glasses into my eye. Damn glasses were stuck to my face. But yeah, wear them all the time!!

That sucks hope the surgeryo goes well.

Wes

Oh jeez Bill. I'm so sorry to hear about this. What a drag!!! First Frog, now you!
Just remember the body has the remarkable ability to recover it's self. Stick with the best medical advise you can afford.

We love you, man!

Here is another one that almost happened to me...

When you are welding, wear safety glasses under your helmet. I had a weld spit when I quit the bead, and I flipped the helmet up at the same time. I had my eyes closed, luckily, and I got a hot peice of slag on my eyelid. If my eye would have been open, it would have been a trip to the hospital for sure.

Best of luck..hope it works!! it should I worked with a guy who had the same thing happen and his sight was repaired.

Good Luck Bill. I have gone through the metal in the eye surgery bit a few times myself.

On another note since were on the safety topic. REMEMBER THE JACK STANDS. Even for little stupid shit. I lost a great friend a few years back and this post reminded me of the little things that we all forget. "it was just an inch of paint" doesn't matter anymore does it?

I hate to hear that happened to you Bill. I hope that everything works out ok for you.

That is a real shame Billa, sorry to hear it.

This brings up another good safety tip: Don't at any time look into the rotational path of any spinning object. Sure it isn't fool proof but will reduce chances enormously.

CJ

WOW hope they can repair the damage. :eek:

I had a similar thing happen but it only lodged in my upper lip. I was wearing goggles. I have now upgraded to a full face shield. Worth every penny I paid for it!

Good luck with the recovery.

Bill, My thoughts are with you for a speedy recovery to 100%....I make every attempt to wear them all the time and make ELF wear his at my house....

Man thats aweful Bill!! Despite that I don't REALLY know you, it hurts me to think about something like this happening to people that I FEEL like I know.

I sure hope all goes well with you, so that you can say - hindsight is 20/20.:(

Sean

thanks for the reminder, I hate to here about that, hope you get your sight back in your eye.:(

good luck on the recovery.........I worked in a fab shop for 6 years and had many pieces of metal taken out of my eye's.....but when it came time to wire brush some thing I always wore my saftey glasses..........I've had enough of those little wires stick in my arms and legs so I new that I didn't want one in my eye......I couldn't even think how bad that had to hurt.......They hurt bad enough in the legs and arms

I am so sorry to hear that...I hope all ends up well for ya though...We all have done the same and it only take an instant in time to do damage to our bodies...

We are with ya Bill - hope everything works out OK. Fingers crossed - and yes, safety glasses on - ALWAYS from now on

Sorry to hear it Bill. I hop things work out for the best man.

Sorry to hear about that Bill, a really hard lesson to learn (I've learned a lot of them). But I hope all goes well with the upcoming surgery, good luck to you!

ouch, thats a hard lesson to learn :(

Sorry to hear that. Good luck with the transplant :eek:

Just this last weekend I was welding and didn't put my hood on because, "It was just a tack weld" Long story short I turned at just the wrong time and got a big glob of molten metal dripped into my right ear. Pain is so much worse when you can actually hear the skin in your ears being burned away. I was damned lucky that it didn't go right into the ear drum, just barely missed it. My hearing in that ear came back a day or so later. You can be damned sure that I will use the safety gear that I paid good money for even for things that, "will just take a second"

Here's wishing for a fast and complete recovery bud!

Ouch very sorry to hear about that. Good luck in your recovery.

that sucks man, I will be praying for you! We have had a coupleof instances like that in our club. None that severe though.:eek:

Sorry to hears about your eye. It just goes to show that the safety glasses are made for a reason. Hopefully someone else will learn from your mistake.

Good luck bro, I hope it works out.

OK summarizing the tips here so far...

1) Wear Safty Glases
- I use the cheep gogles casue i wear eye glasses. (as in like ~$3-$4, I spend more on damn blades and drill bits and not think twice...
- I try to have a few pairs for when friends stop over...

2) Use full face shield
- Great Idea, I see em next to the eye stuff at the store, just dont think to grab 1 (or 2)

3) Don't look in/at the rotational part of spinning tools...

- Never really heard this before, make sense, just kinda knew not to do that...

Here's a few more i can think of..

4) Don't remove safty guards !

5) Clamp work down on the drill press !
- Put a small chain to the chuck and hook it to the press... NO UFOs

6) Wear gloves damn it !!!! Their cheeper than safety glasses....
- I buy em when northern/ag-store has them on sale for ~$1.00 pr for the light leather gloves.

7) Auto darkening helmet
- This has helped me lots as I was always doing quick tacks due to interfearance/sight/helmet issues...

8) cutting goggles ! I can't "see" how some can do that and not go blind....



I had a piece of metal dust get in my eye sunday, same thing as someone else said, had my goggles on, went inside to clean up, knocked it into my eye.... Have to be more alert to what im doing.... It didnt come out till monday morning.....

My bro had to have his eye ball pollished cause a small rust ring had formed around a flake he had a few years back.....

You know now that i think of it im gonna suggest these as grab bag/raffle items at the next club function.....

-yag

Good luck and listen to the Dr's...they can do wonders these days with restoring vision...* spoken as a past eye surgery patient with 99% restored vision these days*

NoRM

Safety glasses....

I had the misfortune of an angle grinder indicent about 4 years ago. The blade twisted, shattered, hit my right nostril and cut thru into my left eye...without the safety glasses, it would have cut a nice furrow in my melon. As it was, I had 60+ stitches in my nose - they had to stitch the cartiledge, then the lining, then the outside.

I've got about 10 pairs of safety glasses around the shop so they are always handy, and keep a full face shield available for any awkward work. Would prefer to avoid additional scars....

Hope things work out as well for you as they did for me...

Awww sh*t that sucks. Thanks for the real life reminder.

Like all above I feel your pain . Thank you for having the courage to post your unfortunate incident as a reminder to always try our best to make safety a number one priority in the shop , or at work , or even driving etc. Just too many ways in life to get hurt now , it getting so complicated . And it only takes a second or less for a little incident to become major . Good luck with the operation , and a wishing you a speedy recovery . Both you and yours will be in our prayers .
Rob

Jeez, sorry to hear that Bill. I can't count the number of times I've used a knot wheel with no glasses on, I think I'll be remembering now.

Hope the surgery works out for you.

Sorry about the accident, hope they get your vision restored.

Holy hell Bill, that sucks!

But we did learn first hand that Candian health care is pretty good. Just ask Charly.

Hope the eye surgery goes well. If I didn't need both of mine i'd loan ya one. ;)

Actually, I'll trade ya one of mine for your buggy. :flipoff2: Might even make ya a sandwhich.

Boots

Pulling for ya Bill....best of luck with the transplant and recovery!
Jay

OOOWWW FAAWWWK!

Here's hoping for a speedy and full recovery man... :beer:

Best of luck to you, Bill.

Bad shite can and does happen to good people and it only takes a second to change your life forever.

......or to end it altogether..........:eek: :(



Keep us posted on your progress to recovery.......:)

DUMBASS!!!!!! :flipoff2: What were you thinking:rolleyes:

Actually I did the same thing and got a little piece of steel in my eyeball one time. I have been wearing safety glasses all the time after that. I have a good pair and wear them all the time while I am in the garage. When climbing under cars it keeps the dust out of the eyes as well. Oh and when I got the metal in my eye; I didn't go the the sissy hospital. I drenched my eye in jack daniels and pulled the piece out with tweezers in front of the mirror with the 8 year old watching. He he

good luck on the operation

Joe

Originally posted by rocket-rob
Like all above I feel your pain . Thank you for having the courage to post your unfortunate incident as a reminder to always try our best to make safety a number one priority in the shop , or at work , or even driving etc. Just too many ways in life to get hurt now , it getting so complicated . And it only takes a second or less for a little incident to become major . Good luck with the operation , and a wishing you a speedy recovery . Both you and yours will be in our prayers .
Rob

This sums up my feelings! Well said rocket. Hope the best for you Bill!

sucks to be you :flipoff2:

thanks for the saftey tip and reminder. godspeed on your recovery.

Crap! Sorry to hear about this BIll, thanks for the reminder and hope the surgery is successful.

Bill: sorry to hear of your recent accident. My hope is that your future surgery goes well.

I had noticed you hadn't been around recently and was beginning to happen.

Good Luck

Wow, best of luck to ya bud. I'm sure we've all done something similar & gotten away with it, but you're right. You just never know :(

TEX

Bill,
That took guts to post the warning and I admire it. I hope that every thing works out well. I had an uncle with a glass one, and a brother with a blind one. Really fawks up his depth perception, though his creations still come out cool. I will try and dig up a scanned photo of some of the junk he builds/sprays.

Keep your chin up dude.

j

:eek: :eek:
Thanks for the reminder. I often find myself doing the same thing cause I'm too lazy to stop what I'm doing and walk across the garage for the glasses. I can't tell you how many times I end up running upstairs to stick my face under the faucet to wash something out of my eyes.
Hope everything works out for you.

Oh fawlk! Dude I'm sorry. I do that crap all the time and I've had many near misses:eek: It's hard cuz I always lose my glasses. I guess I'll try harder more than ever now.........

Holy shit!
Good luck dude, I hope everything works out for you.
I got a piece of metal in my eye last year, I was standing around at my work(had safety glasses on) and a flake of metal blew off from the roof above me and lodged in my eye.
Cost me $600 for the removal and tetnis shot(I'm self employed).
Be safe even when you think you're being safe!



Jes

dude that sucks big time, Hope the surgery goes well and that the doctors can get at least some of the vision back, unfortunaetly it takes something like this to remind us all of how important shop safety is.

Good luck with the surg Billa!:(

Damn Bill that really sucks.:( I hope everything turns out OK for you.


I've had to have metal ground out of my eye before. Not fun. The tool they use sounds like a dental drill, only of course it's in your eye and you're looking right at it. The sound of that thing bogging down as it grinds is enough to send sweat running down your neck.:eek:

hello Bill,
just read your post now and was absolutly shocked. i know exactly how you must feel.
i wish you all the best and a speedy recovery
with a complete eyesight.

oh, one more thing - i keep my fingers crossed for you...anyway, all the 8 i got left:D :D

sorry, it was just too tempting;)

Very sorry to hear this, Bill. I've had the lens implant surgery (due to an infection - long story) and hope that it works out as well for you. Makes me want to go buy a couple heavy face shields...

:( Aw man, that's terrible. Best wishes for a full recovery. Hang in there buddy.
I need to wise up myself, thanks for the reminder.

Best wishes Bill.

See you at the Rockathon next year, if not sooner.

Boots...

STFU and make me a sandwich.:flipoff2:

dude that's lame... good luck with everything... i just got a tiny piece of dirt i my eye that lodged in. it hurt like hell and cost me a pretty penny (no insurnace:mad: ) i can't imagine what you have to go through... again good luck to you:) !!!!!!!

:eek: good heavens, Bill!:(
I wish you a speedy and complete recovery!
damn!:(

WOW!!!!

Thanks all for the support and encouragement....means a lot!

All you guys reading this and thinking...."hey....I've done that"...please do think about it!

One more tip - if anything penetrates the eye - DO NOT attempt to remove it, there is a great risk of the eyeball "depressurizing" and collapsing.

In my case, the wire penetrated almost perpendicular to the lens, about 1/2" deep.

Of course I was screaming "get it out, get it out" but Chad and my wife Laurie would not remove it. nor would they let the paramedic pull it out. Turns out that was a very good thing.

As for Canadian health care - I got a 40 min ambulance ride, 7 nights in a private room with colour cable TV and my own phone, 3 squares a day, untold tests and examinations, 2 shots of Demarol (sp?), and ungodly amounts of eye-drops and injections in my eye, and less than 10 day wait for surgery.....

....and it didn't cost me a red cent! Pretty cool IMHO.

One of the worst parts was the sleep deprivation as they woke me up every hour on the hour to put up to 4 drops in my eye...after a week I felt like a sociopathic reject from a horrible POW experiment....."grumpy bear" was the diplomatic way my wife put it!

Thanks again all........the emotional support is enormously helpful - cheers!

Sorry to hear that Bill. I find myself not wearing my safety glasses
as often as I should. Charly stole mine on me so i had an excuse. You guys from Nova Scotia have awful luck with you eyes. How will this effect work? can you fly with one eye? get well soon . Brett

Good Luck Bill

Originally posted by ALEX Bronco
Charly stole mine on me so i had an excuse.

Bossman,

:flipoff2:

That is all.



















please don't fire me :D

Ten days after seeing that, my eye is still involuntarily squinting......

Hoping that with luck it will turn out reaonably well.

Bill wasn't doing anything we all haven't done many times. First thing I said to my wife when I got home was 'I know what I want for Christmas - the best damn face shield money can buy!'.

Bill, really sorry to hear that. Wish you a speedy and full recovery.

Those wire wheels scare the hell out of me. I use a full shield and safety glasses. I've had those wires go though my jeans and still stick in my leg a 1/4".

Man that sucks. Best of luck to you.

I had a friend nearly loose sight in an eye chopping wood with a hatchet. Hit a nail and made a spark that went through his eye and caused his retina to detach.

It can happen when you least expect it. Be careful.

Sorry to hear this Bill.
Good luck and let us know how it goes.

Steve

Yeeeouch!

Get well soon! Hope that transplant works out... :(

I hope all turns out well. Thank you for posting this. I have 3 paris of goggles, all scratched to some degree and I am getting increasingly lazy and unsafe. FWIT, you have made a small difference on the planet. I swear I will always wear the eye portection. Thanks Again, and good luck.

Originally posted by Maine Jeepah
Holy crap dude sorry to hear that...good luck...thank gawd for socialized medicine I guess. :eek:

Had a piece of steel removed form my eyeball a while back...it got in my eye after I was done for the day...I rubbed it, and it stuck in...I was actually wearing glasses the whole time...but had fileings all over me and one dropped off my forehead or something.



MJ

same here:rolleyes: so now I close my eyes after taking off the safty glasses and brush off well:eek: 1st thing I thought when I read the title was "that big ass red battery switch on his jeep dash poped off and hit him in the eye!":flipoff2: sorry about your eye, hope you get the sight back!!;)

1st thing I thought when I read the title was "that big ass red battery switch on his jeep dash poped off and hit him in the eye!"

Bwa hah ha hah ha ha !! That's HILLARIOUS dude! Shoot - if that puppy let go I'm thinking I might have a cranial fracture, not just a gooey eye!

Thanks again you lot - you've really helped keep my spirits up.

Damn Bill, That sucks.

Did you wear a eye patch for holloween?

Wish you the best of luck.

i was soldering once, figured i didnt need glasses for soldering... a piece of hot solder flung off the wire, and hit me about 1/4" below my eye. holy shit, scared me to death. now, i wear safety glasses for almost anything i do. its just not worth not wearing them.

anyway, sorry to hear about your eye. good luck.

ey man dont you know you but good luck, modern medicine is amazing!

Let us know how it turns out.

Good luck Bill, My best friend at work....had his younger brother injured in an eye accident last week. Seems he was checking that a snap-ring was seated in a tranny housing at the tractor dealership he works for and a peice of the housing hit him in the eye. His 1st. surgery when well and stiches are still in...but they also found more metal and Monday gets another day with the knife. You hang in there and keep your faith. Prayers for you!!!! Brother. Also I'm a NAXJA lifer!!! My XJ has a 5.13 Dana 60, 44 HP and 38's. Hope to see you on the trail, somewhere soon!!!:D

Man, you went through all that and still answered your e-mail quickly.

Hope it all works out for ya, can't enjoy that buggy without depth perception.

Thanks for the help too, I owe ya one :beer: