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Had something happen today that never has before. 15/16s socket on 1/2 in. impact. Nut finally come loose and flew out of socket and hit my glasses. Shattered right lense. If I was computer savvy I would post a pic. That's why I have not had the lazic done on my eyes. I wouldn't wear safety glasses like i should. Lucky no glass in eye. 1/4 in bolt will go in hole in lense. I feel very fortunate. WEAR those safety glasses or a face shield. RB
 
Many years ago I was installing these new surge suppressors in a 480 volt cabinet, had to do it hot. The suppress exploded! No one was hurt but my new glasses had a speck of copper dead center of my right eye! Times 2 on wearing glasses!! joe
 
I'm not as good about safety glasses as I should be but I had a rude awakening many years ago when I was living in Miami. A guy working for me was installing a window unit air conditioner in his house. He needed a shim for the installation so he took a piece of a 2 by 4 and split a piece off of it. He laid a hatchet on the end of the piece of the two by for and struck the back of the hatchet with a hammer. A piece flew out of the hatchet head and into his eye. He actually lost his eye. He was off work for a very long time recovering and came back to work with a black patch over his eye.

Stuff happens in an instant.

Tom in TN
 
I worked with a one eyed iron worker. He had his safety glasses on when he got out of his truck in the morning. Even ate lunch with them on.
 
Whenever I get glasses I get the polycarbonate lenses. They don't scratch as easy and are a lot tougher than regular lenses. I wear glasses all the time, short arm syndrome. Now at 62 the distance isn't what it was either. Glad it was just a lens, not your eye!
 
I worked with a guy that lost an eye hammering on a masonry nail. Piece broke off the head of the nail.
 
Wow! That was close!

I knew a man about 30 years ago, he was a finish carpenter, installing a stairway in a top end house.

He shot a brad nail in a piece of oak, something turned it around, it came back straight into his eye, no glasses!

They saved the eye, but it was never the same.
 
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Thank you Grandpa. I feel very lucky to have my eye. I probably would've lost it. I've had nut's fly out of sockets many times. I try to feather the trigger or hold the nut against the bolt or steel. The glass is suppose to be safety glass. Makes a guy stop and think. RB
 
I had to wear safety glasses for the last 30 years I worked, I wasn't very good about it until I got to 40, then I needed them to see what I was doing! So now I wear glasses all the time, safety when doing anything hazardous.
 
Things like that happen fast, glad you still have your eye. At my factory job we were required to wear safety glasses. My employer supplied them, along with uniforms, and safety shoes. What a deal. While mowing one day rock flew out from my mower hit a front tire, and flew back in my eye. I try and wear goggles now, mostly for the dust and dirt. I was picking up rocks one time, and I started losing the sight in one eye. by the time I got home I couldn't see out of that eye. The eye doctor said blood vessels broke in my eye, and in a month I would be able to see again. He was right.I thought I was going blind. Stan
 
(quoted from post at 04:05:03 09/17/22) Your lucky ,put an extra 20 in the offering on Sunday
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I like that Dennis. I'll be that most people still think that $5.00 is appropriate, when actually most people's fair share of support is more like $100.00. I know that as my church's custodian I can burn through $20,000 a year on maintenance pretty easily.
 
Not only do I wear safety glasses when there is any use of force (hammers, all power tools, installing or removing springs, press, compressed air, etc) so do my grandkids when they are helping me. I bought a dozen pairs of child size safety glasses for them. Since they fit, they are happier to wear them.
 
We used to go to dirt track races.

Was watching a race middle of the stands, looked to the right at the action at turn 1, and something banged ricocheted bounced. Felt something by my face.

Looked at my feed and a small pebble was rolling around by my shoe. Big piece of sand really.

Took my glasses off, and the bit of metal that holds the nose piece on had a dimple in it. In by the nose piece.

So, this pebble got flung off a sprint car, as I was looking sideways it flew between the inside of my glasses lens and my eye, hit the nose piece metal hard enough to dent it like you hit it with a nail punch, and then fell to my feet.

A few fractions of an inch or angle one way or another.......

Paul
 
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