Always, always use appropriate PPE!

[R1CKY]

Decided I didn't need to wear safety glasses whilst chiseling away at a solid wall, as it would only take a two seconds. Just got back from A+E, where a doctor stuck some anesthetic and orange dye in my left eye, he then used a needle to scrape a spec of concrete block out of my eyeball!

The git didn't tell me the dye was all over my face either! I walked out of the hospital looking like a crackhead that had spilled Irn-Bru on my face!

 

[Barry98]

Photos photos photos

 

[on31ll]

I think there is a need for photos as evidence of the damage caused ofcourse !

 

[Roger Welton]

Eye protection is defiantly a must, have been caught out similarly in the past, whilst cleaning up steam boiler for annual inspection by insurance surveyor using wire brush on a grinder, got a but of steel in eye. Initially scraped out using needle, but they couldn't remove all of it so I was referred to the eye clinic where they used what I can only describe as a dremel to shave off the surface of eye and remaining foreign body

 

[R1CKY]

No way am I posting pictures of myself!! Its mostly gone down now, just a little bloodshot in the corner!

Roger, that sounds horrible!

 

[villa_tom]

We have a saying between our group of mates, which is


"photos or it never happened"

I think this is a perfect case

 

[R1CKY]

I'd rather be thought of as a liar than post a close up of my face on t'internet!!

 

[villa_tom]

I'd rather be thought of as a liar than post a close up of my face on t'internet!!

Are you really ugly then?

 

[Leo21]

Eye protection is defiantly a must, have been caught out similarly in the past, whilst cleaning up steam boiler for annual inspection by insurance surveyor using wire brush on a grinder, got a but of steel in eye. Initially scraped out using needle, but they couldn't remove all of it so I was referred to the eye clinic where they used what I can only describe as a dremel to shave off the surface of eye and remaining foreign body

What an image. Ooooh!

 

[Roger Welton]

I've had arc eye in the past and the next couple of adays after were like that but more prolonged, the actual procedure wasn't particualrly painful.

 

[R1CKY]

Are you really ugly then?

Haha! How can you ask a question like that and put a smiley on the end! I've been told on numerous occasions I look like Gavin Henson I'll have you know!! Just with less muscle, less fake tan, big bags under my eyes and a puberty beard!