Poke in the Eye With a Sharp Stick

Swarf in the eye wins me a trip to the opthamologist. The prize = a needle to the eye - woo hoo - well maybe not woo hoo - anesthetic wore off, but the spiced rum took over. Humor me for unintelligable posts.

Had a Dremel bit explode once, leaving a piece in my eye.. Took a drill bit to get it out. Nice light show, but couldn't use my eye for a week.

Wear safety glasses.

I got a splinter in my eye once at work, while wearing my supplied safety glasses. Not a fun day.

Be careful! There are much more fun ways to go blind

I had a piece of sand caught under my eyelid. Scratched the E36 M3 out of my cornea. Shortly after I got glasses.

Ouch!! BTDT Battery acid hurts like hell too. Ask me how I know.

I have a friend who got a piece of steel in his eye. He wasn't smart enough to go to the Doc. He now has a rust stain. The doctor told him it will probably take years for it to fade.

Hope you are feeling better soon.

Swarf in the eye once here too!

I watched it bounce off my cheek, hit the back of my glasses, then into my eye.

I got a piece of sandblaster glass in my eye once too. It was great. Trying to find a piece of white glass bead in your eye is fun!

Shawn

Ophalmalagist took a picture after his assistant looked at the rusting piece of steel that a grinder left in my eye.Looked like a fish hook. It is no fun to watch an old man chuck up a dremel tool and head for your eye with said tool turning 12,000 rpm. Buy a faceshield to put over your safety glasses, cheap insurance. Signed Deadeye

just reading this made my eyes water and burn.

lesson learned.

safety first kids

BTDT, with safety glasses on! Optho-man kept poking my eye with a very small button hook thingie and bitchin at me for blinking. sorry. Then he wanted to use a tiny dremmel to remove the rust.

Rust?

Your eye is water, the metal is encapsulated so how can it oxidize?

Your eye is a honey comb of water and air, there's rust in there now shut up.

Ouch. I feel your pain.

I had a shard of carbon fibre ENTER my eyeball and stick in it about two years ago.

That sucked. Bad.

I got a little metal splinter in my eye even while wearing glasses. So tiny I didn't even notice it happening, but by the end of the day my eyelid had swollen shut because the end had scratched the crap out of the inside of my eyelid. Also not fun, but pretty much went away as soon as the doc removed it.

When I was a baby, my mom was feeding me in a high chair while smoking. Went to put the airplane in the hanger and put the lit end of her cigarette directly into my eye instead. I probably wasn't belted into the lead-paint-covered high chair, either. Ahhh, to be a child of the early '60s.

Yeowch!! Stuff in the peepers gives me the heebie-jeebies big time....I always use eye protection in the shop..........

Sometimes it might make sense to use total face protection. One time I was using a screwdriver in a non-screwdriver approved use (yes, I'm talking baby pry bar here). Was driling out spot welds and using a small thin screwdriver to separate the two pieces of metal. Don't know how it happened, but the end of the screwdriver snapped off, went airborne and landed IN MY FREAKING NOSE!!!!!

And no, my nose iddn't that huge!

At least it came out easy, I think the huge blood flow helped. Didn't help that Mrs. Orphancars was watching this from a safe distance. I think that is one of the reasons she keeps a safe-to-her distance from the shop.

Now I own a set of prybars -- thanks Dad, thanks Sears!

I've actually started wearing goggles in the shop instead of safety glasses. They work a lot better even if they don't look as cool as fake sunglasses. I'm doing a lot of grinding/cutting under the car and there's lots of red hot eyeball damage flying around. For really fun situations, the face shield comes out too.

Had a face shield on and regular glasses. I'm thinking stuff that seals to you like the shop goggles is the safest approach.

We didn't name the challenge team flyin sparks without reason...

A metal splinter found its way past my safety glasses once. It was steel so I got it out using a strong magnet. Much cleaner and less damage than trying to grab it with something and yank it out. I'm with Keith on the goggles.

My worst was some sriracha chili sauce a few weeks ago. I can imagine it must be similar to pepper spray.

i was making veggie skewers when I dropped a squash slice into the balsamic marinade bowl. I imagine that burn was abotu as good as straight citrus....

madmallard wrote: i was making veggie skewers when I dropped a squash slice into the balsamic marinade bowl. I imagine that burn was abotu as good as straight citrus....

I read that with my butthole puckered expecting you to say that you took a skewer to the eye when you bent down to pick up the squash slice.

Oh good Lord. Once again we've gone from automotive to culinary in the same thread.

I kinda like to walk around the house in the nude. I enjoy cooking. Never fry bacon without wearing an apron.

Face sheilds are cool, too.

Lesley wrote: Be careful! There are much more fun ways to go blind

And you can quit when you only need glasses.

I've had the needle fishing resty steel out of an eyeball treatment too... not fun.

Makes you wonder though, after a few hundred of us you think they would learn that you really cannot stop blinking when someone is trying to poke you in the eye with a hat pin and just clamp the berkeleyer open at the beginning instead of yelling at each individual one of us.

When I was a kid my bedroom was at the end of a long hallway, and we had a cat. Cat gets crazed, storms or butterfly farts - it's hard to tell why they get so crazed sometimes, then comes haulin' down the hallway and I'm laying on my bed mindin' my own business. Cat leaps onto the bed and a moment later, you guessed it, her claw is in my eye. It hurt, but it was over pretty fast and fortunately only needed an ointment, so the damage was small. I do have a residual red spot in my iris, though fortunately it did not screw up my vision, any more than it already was.

Have a friend who was camping out in BFE and cooking cheddarwurst over the fires. Bit into a steamy hot sausage and shot boiling cheddar waaaay up into his sinuses. 6 hour drive to the ER by yourself, with bloody burnt skin falling out of your head, 2 surgeries and 2 years later and he can smell again. good times!

I had to have a sliver of metal drilled out of my eye, back when I was a diesel grease-monkey and still training in MMA on a regular basis. That was a lovely experience, I only closed my eye on the drill once!

After it was all said and done my wife and I were at the counter paying for the procedure when I started to feel very light headed. I reached out to grab the counter to steady myself but it was too late. I went down like an AT-AT with it's legs wrapped in tow cable (hehe).

BLAM!

The back of my head hits the wall with all of my 170 lbs (Now it's closer to 195 lbs) behind it. The impact actually brought me around and the first thing I did was check to see if there was a hole in the wall from my noggin. I felt like such a little girlie man!