WEAR SAFETY GOGGLES! - OUCH!

[zebra50]

This is me, a couple of hours ago....

:shock:

The silver lump is solder stuck to my eyelashes. That was a near miss. It flew up when I was de-soldering a wire. I was wearing normal spectacles at the time but not goggles - the lump flew up under the glasses. I got away with just a small burn and some burnt lashes - lucky this time.

Thank goodness for eyelashes and the blink reflex. I scared myself - I'm wearing safety goggles from now on. Please look after yourselves.

Stewart

 

[owel]

Yikes...

I had corneal ulcer a few years ago in one eye (my baby scratched my eye in my sleep)... it hurt like hell... I couldn't see, the slighest breeze feels like somebody poking an icepick in my eye!

The doctor said a few millimeters towards the center and I would have to had a cornea transplant.

It took forever to heal, and I was under strong antibiotic eyedrops that I need to put in my eye every 15 minutes! I still have scarring on that eye, but luckily it's at the "edge" of my line of sight so I didn't had to undergo cornea transplant.

Take care of your eyes people.

 

[Bjorn Zetterlund]

Thanks Stewart. Right, goggles from now on...even for the casual stupid 'oh it's just this one bit' type of stuff. Most of us are probably up to a few thousand soldering/desoldering bits a year here...that means we are merely playing the odds. DIY is wonderful, but not worth your eyes, nor your ears!

Bjorn

 

[SSLtech]

S-S-S-Scary ppost!!!!

'Cornea transplant'...

The very idea makes me cringe!!!

Great photo, BTW stewart!

Keith

 

[heybluez]

OUCH!!

Glad to hear that you are ok.

I sort of had a similar experience which made my lazy butt start wearing safety glasses....

I was clipping off the legs of my soldered resistors and caps when one of them flew and hit me in the eye. I freaked out since I thought it was in there and it would scratch my eye if i blinked enough! hehe....luckily it hit and fell out....but the lesson was learned. I suggest EVERYONE wear eye protection.

Now, what about those solder iron burns

Later,
Michael

 

[zebra50]

[quote author="SSLtech"]
Great photo, BTW stewart!

Keith[/quote]

Ta. My girlfriend took it. She's getting to be very good with the digi camera. The funny thing was, when I realised that the solder was stuck and cold already, I said 'quick, get the camera - I've got to post this at the lab!". Shows where my priorities lie, huh?

Anyway, I have an itchy eyelid this morning but no sign of any real damage. Luckily.

Goggles please, ladies & gentlemen, goggles.
:thumb:

 

[Learner]

Yes, I can stress enough. A face mask is absolutely essential when experiment or removing/ripping components while desoldering!!!!

 

[tubejay]

Wow, I never even THOUGHT of wearing goggles (I'm new to DIY). That certainly is an "eye opener". BA DA CHAH!

Seriously though, I'm going to start wearing goggles....scary.

 

[b3groover]

Ouch! I used to work at the Cyclotron Lab at Michigan State University as a student and one of my jobs was winding the coils they use in the beam-line.

Once the coil is wound and baked we had to take apart the coil mold which is inevitably caked with the epoxy they used to form the coil. The mold is taped with teflon before hand and then I had to get all that tape off there, re-tape the form, and wind another coil.

Well, as I was pulling the tape off a small piece of epoxy flew off and got into my eye, even though I was wearing safety glasses (not goggles). I wiped my eye, flushed it, and continued working.

When I got home, it was really starting to hurt. Then I tried to go to bed a few hours later and I couldn't keep my eyelids closed. It hurt too much. So I went to the emergency room and they found this small sliver of epoxy jammed in my eye (probably from me rubbing it stupidly). They couldn't do anything so they sent me to a specialist in the morning.

Suffice to say, the only way to get that sliver out was to DRILL IT out of my eyeball. A horrible experience. My eye hurt for weeks afterwards and they put me on codine for the pain. It was crazy. I still have a scar there but luckily it's not in my field of vision.

 

[owel]

I can tell you, even with just a microscopic tear or abrasion on your eye, it hurts so much you cannot absolutely function!

I don't want to go through that again.