Wear protection kids!

[Nikko85]

Dremeling off some plastic and splott! a piece of melted plastic shot off and landed in my eye...

A little hard to see but it hit the inner corner of my left eye. It has caused a nasty burn which is started to scab

About 1cm to the left and it would have hit my pupil and that would have  been  very nasty!

[Wystan Withers]

Ouch. 

Also, Wear protection, or kids!

[Verskis]

Also remember to wear eye protection when gluing tires. I managed to get some CA glue on my eye when the tire snapped into it's groove and there was a bit too much glue there. Luckily it didn't glue my eyelids shut, but it damaged the surface of the eye a bit. 

[markbt73]

I didn't think about it much when I was younger, but now in my 50s, I wear safety glasses for almost everything in the garage and workshop, especially any time something might go flying. Mask/respirator for paint or anything dusty, too.

And for less dangerous, close-up stuff, I need reading glasses these days, so there's some protection there as well.

[Pablo68]

This is really good advice guys. I've spent most of my career in workshops/industrial sites. Your health and safety is everything.

 

[Guest]

This happened to me not so long ago, thankfully I had the safety goggles on. Using those Dremel tools can be quite dangerous!

[kevinb120]

I need 1.5X readers any time I'm doing anything the least bit fickle, so I always have something on.  Sometimes the 3.5 if I'm way up and close painting driver's eyes or something.  Always think it through with rotary tools to make sure you're not positioned in the arc of destruction should something go wrong

[Hypoxic]

Eye and ear protection go a long way. 

[Mad Ax]

Yes.  Some years back I was using an angle grinder underneath an old Mini.  I was using safety goggles but the space was too tight to get my head in with them on, so I took them off.

Next morning I had a sore eye, so went to the local minor injuries unit.  Turns out I had 2 pieces of steel swarf that had melted themselves to my eye.

20 minutes lying on my back while a nurse removed them by scraping them with the tip of a needle.  Not recommended.

My drill press has a tendency to spit out large chunks of aluminium swarf, so I always wear goggles when using it.