Put your safety glasses on!!!!

[cbw]

I am sure most of you have seen an angle grinder disk go bang, my first time today!!!

Said to my collegue, put some safety glasses on......

Nah dont need those.....

Here, a nice new pair, wear them!

BANG!!!!!

We both got showered in 9" grinder disk, thankfully, all we got between us was a slight cut to a leg!!!!!

Both had a face full of **** though!!!!

Very lucky.
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[Adam W]

The benefits of a pair of safety glasses shouldn't be underestimated; last year I was using a bit of polythene pipe (it was all we had) as a draw wire, lying down under a floor. I slipped and the pipe sprang back and hit me in the eye. The guy at the eye unit at A&E said he gets loads of sparkies and tradesmen in general with similar injuries.
They gave me some drops which made my pupil dilate and gave me blurred vision so I had 3 days off work (unpaid) that week, then have had a couple more off (unpaid) when the scratch opened up again.
To top it all off I went to a waterpark on holiday a couple of weeks ago. A large splash of chlorine water in the eye is particularly uncomfortable with a corneal abrasion - cue itchy, watery, bloodshot eye for the next 3 days

I wear safety glasses nearly all the time at work now. I learned the hard way.

 

[Darkwood]

Should be full face shield with angle grinders as they can also bite especially on the bigger hand grinders, if that happens the natural rotation has the effect of flicking the whole grinder towards your head... got a bloke on site that found this out the hard way and thus had the blade cut deep into his cheek.

 

[MarkieSparkie]

Well done mate. A lot of others may not have been sensible with their own PPE, let alone that of their college.

 

[diditrain]

I wore mine today as i was chasing for most of the day. In the past i have not bothered but have had brick/block slivers in the eye on two occasions and it is not pleasant. My own fault

 

[Strima]

Seen so many accidents and injuries that could have been avoided by wearing correct PPE, I still forget sometimes though and that's when it bites...

 

[kingeri]

And wear knee pads too. My father and father in law both have knackered knees from years of hard graft. Also painful if you kneel on a nail or staple (or worse still grippa-strip)!!

 

[parker56]

always wear them now,I used a motor strimmer years ago without glasses, flicked a stone straight into my left eye,spent five days flat on my back in hospital cost me 50% of my vision.

 

[chenghsiehshih]

of flicking the whole grinder towards your head... got a bloke on site that found this out the hard way and thus had the blade cut deep into his cheek.
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[chenghsiehshih]

but have had brick/block slivers in the eye on two occasions and it is not pleasant.

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[edexlab]

The trouble with safety glasses is people use them ,they steam up, even the ones which say they don't and then they get taken off
I used to work in engineering and saw several accidents ie exploding machine tools and grinding discs very common and usually quite nasty
I always wore mine as I didn't fancy a new nickname like the ones given to 2 colleagues in different companies who lost an eye each.
by the way if cyclops or terminator are reading this '' Alright lads!''

Seriously though its not funny when it does happen and I'm always telling people to put them on the two chaps above were both young when it happened to them

A few years ago I was working on a kitchen contract with 6 lads, just first fixing everyday for a year , the firm typically gave you one pair and expected them to last 10 years and people were constantly getting bits of cement ,plaster and wood /dust in their eyes , they wore them until they were too scratched ,around two weeks and carried on without them.
I always bought my own anyway for this very reason which some people found amusing but I didn't care about the cost as its cheaper than a new eye!

I did a bit of research into other products and found some glasses which used stainless steel mesh with microscopic holes so they'll stop foreign objects (not sparks though) and to some degree dust but the good thing is they cannot steam up and last much longer than the polycarbonate type

I never actually ordered any to try but last week I was talkng about it with the apprentice and I'm going to order some to see if they're good in practice has anyone any experience of these specs?

 

[i=p/u]

kneeled on a screw 6 weeks ago, kneecap fookd still, aint joking

 

[cbw]

I would be interested to hear how you get on with those specs????

When you buy them could you post a pic too?

 

[SparkyJoe]

I think they have a time and a place, (ie when your using power tools) But on these sites where they want you where them all the time, jesus what a pain. :|

 

[Guest123]

Shattered discs are more oftem than not caused by overtightening the centre nut that holds the disc in place.

It only needs to be just tight, I've seen guys hitting the spanner with a hammer to get it tighter, 10 mins later BANG!!!