Wear goggles!!!!!!!!!!

[D Spares & Tyres]

Just thought I would mention this as everyone I know was quite impressed, but I briefly used my battery grinder outside without goggles which is usually ok as you can direct the sparks but a big gust of wind came from nowhere and blew them back in my face. It felt like I had a brick in my eye.

 

Went in the house and `er indoors remembered that telescopic magnet thing I have so using a torch to stop my eye from seeing what was coming she put the magnet onto my eye and 3 small bits of metal came out, no need for A &E

 

 

So thats all

 

Any other car injuries of note? even (or especially) for humour value

[DSdriver]

Haha autoshite Moorfields is in Ludlow.

[twosmoke300]

Yup , wear goggles kids. Had my first trip last year to the eye doctor to have a bit of steel dug out of my eye . Not bad to have had only one visit during 19 years in the trade but very unpleasant .

 

Glad to see someone else using the magnet to pull bits out of your eyes . Strong ones also good for metal splinters.

[pbottomley]

Got a mate I call dangerous, he gave himself a black eye putting on a pair of safety goggles, idiot pushed the arm into his eye ball!!

[D Spares & Tyres]

The only time it happened before, was  Cannock hospital and I think i pulled the nurse accidentally. shame I`m not that way inclined as it was a bloke. he was really friendly......

 

He used some anaesthetic and a needle

 

 

To DS driver. - never heard of Moorfields?

[DSdriver]

 

 

To DS driver. - never heard of Moorfields?

 

Top London eye hospital. 

[Matt]

Went in the house and `er indoors remembered that telescopic magnet thing I have so using a torch to stop my eye from seeing what was coming she put the magnet onto my eye and 3 small bits of metal came out, no need for A &E

 

Is this the official opening of Autoshites medical procedure bodge alternative department?

[MrDuke]

I think i pulled the nurse accidentally. shame I`m not that way inclined as it was a bloke. he was really friendly......

 

He used some anaesthetic and a needle

 

Must......resist.............

[lisbon_road]

Ear defenders too with an angle grinder, not to mention gloves.

 

I picked up a stone with a strimmer once when I wasn't wearing goggles so I can be dumb for sure.

[Christine]

I pull this stunt all the time  too.. 

 

However if the shard has penetrated your eyeball and you pull it out,with a magnet ,  the eyeball will leak and you'll run the possibility of going blind.. just sayin' like. 

[D Spares & Tyres]

Must......resist.............

I suppose rohypnol would of been more effective.............

[fordperv]

In all the years messing with grinders I have been on the receiving end of the eye doctors needle 2 times in quite close succession, one time I wasn't wearing goggles, the other time i was before going both times I tried to cotton bud the shards out using the press and spin technique, the first time I went she was trying to hide the needle from my view as my chin was on the rest of her magnifying machine, i laughed and said I hope that's a really big needle your hiding, she laughed at me and explained that people are squeamish at the thought of needles so she tries to keep them out of the way, my second trip was about 3 weeks later and she remembered me, it is a weird sensation someone scraping your eyeball with a needle, your eyeball moving slightly under the pressure

[D Spares & Tyres]

Top London eye hospital. 

ah yes I see what you mean, they are more used to people with sheep related injuries so no good at eyes

[spike60]

As I found out, grindings are hot and will fuse to your eyeball. At the RVI Newcastle about 40 miles away they had some glorified mini mole grips to get hold of it and pull it off my eye, but as said above, eyes are squishy and want to come out too. This was not nice. I always use goggles now.

[purplebargeken]

Thanks everyone. I have an eyeball phobia. I now wish to vomit. 

 

Ace thread...... not.

[Richard]

Goggles? Pussies. This is how you do eye protection...

 

[steve_earwig]

Tile glaze. I'd been chopping off tiles with hammer and chisel, with gloves and goggles. When I'd done and taken my goggles off I noticed one more tile that looked ready to come off, so I gave it a little tug (like you do) whereupon it snapped in half, showering my face with bits, some going into my eyes. I rinsed my eyes in the sink and, after a while things seemed to settle down. However the next morning I woke up with what felt like gravel in my eyes, particularly my right. T'wife had a look but couldn't see anything, so off to hospital we went.

 

The hospital is 35km away on the other side of Zagreb, my wife doesn't drive (big bone of contention) so I had to do it. Into town traffic, eyes streaming, every time I blinked my eyes misted up and I was almost blind so I was trying not to most of the time. We headed straight to the ophthalmology dept. and were seen after a few minutes wait. In a darkened room I told them what I probably had in my eyes and got some stuff dripped into them. My eyes immediately felt better so I told them what they'd done had worked. Ah, no that was anaesthetic. I had to sit with my head in a frame looking into a scope while the doc had a peer, he then dripped some sort of stain in them and had another look (eyeballs stain, lumps of tile don't), I think he swapped a few filters about too. He found (da-dah!) nothing. He reckoned I'd probably washed it out with all my tears and all I had were the scratches it left. Thanks to the anaesthetic I was fine for the drive home.

 

I don't think it can be emphasised enough, you really need to wear eye protection if you're doing anything where there are bits and pieces flying about. However, if you are unlucky (or daft) enough to catch something in your eye it can be fixed. They have the technology...

[Station]

I've been the hospital twice with this.

First time they removed a 1mm shard embedded in the centre of my eye, and the second they removed 10 smaller shards. To make matters worse I had arc eye and was in pain for a week. On top of that, my left eye is knackered and all I can see is halos driving in the dark and have to wear glasses now.

I use ear protectors as angle grinders can mess your hearing up.

 

The yellow stuff is iodine, it stains your eyes making the fragments easier to see. It also turns everything yellow.mi had two fit junior nurses do it the second time and was in there for half an hour until they got a senior in to use the scalpel and needle.

[cobblers]

Yup. I've been lucky to only have to go and get metal dug out once, and I was wearing goggles when the metal went in, it bounced through a vent!

 

The anaesthetic makes it only moderately unpleasant at the time, but they scratch the fuck out of your eyeball while digging it out. About 4 hours later when it wore off I was glad I decided to buy a bottle of whisky while walking home from A+E. Jesus, it was horrible.

[mat_the_cat]

5 times for me First with no goggles, but the rest of the times (including twice within a couple of weeks last year) it must have got through the goggle vents, or between them and my face. Unlucky, me?

[derskine]

I've had a couple of sparks go in my eyes when using standard safety glasses whilst grinding, they really don't cut it.

Luckily I just left it and it was fine...

Now I only use this type and haven't had any issues.

 

[Christine]

Fucking hell whats up with you all? My reactions are so fast i can blink before most shards  hit the eyeball !

[Inspector Morose]

The worst is when the bits go rusty and everything starts to take on an orangey hue. Que the nice nurse scraping my eyeballs then scraping me from the ceiling of the treatment room.

 

I do not do eyeballs.

[Richard]

I didn't do eyeballs either, until I developed a condition that meant multiple visits to the eye clinic every year. Injections too, not many people can say they've had needles stuck in all four balls. Consequently it was a piece of piss for me when I had to get a bit of metal picked out of my eye a few years ago.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The most horrible avoidable eye injury I've known , was a guy using 2 screwdrivers to pull a battery out of an under seat compartment . He was leaning into the back of the car with his face above the battery......

He now only has one eye, remember kids if something seems like a stupid fucking idea, it probably is.

[catsinthewelder]

Ouch,  my blacksmithing tutor lost an eye when a stone got caught in the coal he was using in the forge.  He was using goggles to work with but went back into the room without them to fetch something while on a tea break.

 

I've been hit in the eyes with loads of fragments but never needed hospital yet,  I am clasping a big bit of wood as I type this.

 

I have been to hospital with chemicals in my eyes though,  at my first bike rally two friends covered me with the contents of several glow sticks.  When this stung like fuck we tried to rinse it out with beer.  When this still hurt and the first aiders wouldn't help I was rushed* to hospital in another friends Metro.   The nurse saw me very quickly, had a look and told me that the substance was called fluorescein and was used on eyes by them to check for scratches so perfectly safe.  After a lot more beers it stopped hurting but it was hard to sleep as I still glowed in the dark 7 hours later. 

[danthecapriman]

I always wear full goggles when grinding like those in derskines post. Safety glasses are next to useless.

 

I've never had metal in my eyes but I have once had pressurised petrol in both eyes at same time!

A colleague was trying to start a Cavalier while it was up on a ramp, he cranked it over then since it wouldn't fire pulled the main tank to engine fuel pipe off to check fuel was flowing. It was pressurised and spurted straight across the workshop hitting me straight in the face!

The pain was immense! Awful burning pain. Luckily another work mate saw it happen, led me to the sink and flushed my face down and gave me eye wash solution. No lasting damage done but my god it was horrible. Scary as fook when your staggering around, eyes open but you can't see anything but blurry light! Since then I've always worn eye protection.

 

Also sort of on a similar theme, I was once laying under one of my cars welding, wearing old jeans and an old sweatshirt. A lump of hot metal must of landed on me and I'd not noticed. I was busily welding away then smelt something burning and a very hot sensation down one side and my back! Flicked the visor up and I was well alight! Surprising how fast you can crawl out from under a car when you have to! I managed to pat it out and didn't suffer any burns believe it or not! Could have been much worse!

[motormatt]

Never had anything in my eyeball (touch wood) but I did get a nice chemical burn on my arse once due to leaving a white spirit soaked rag In my pocket.

[twosmoke300]

My last metal in my eye moment was whilst wearing goggles too . Good quality nicely fitting ones as well . Go figure

[Angrydicky]

Yup been there and done that. Sitting in a chair in the eye clinic at Southend Hospital while a doctor dug around in my eyeball with a long needle. Not the most pleasant experience. I was wearing goggles as well, albeit knackered loose fitting ones.