[TheForge] Home-made grinders and wire brushes

[peter fels]

Good policy;
I once was using a die grinder with glasses and a face shield. 
A fragment of steel still managed to embed firmly in my iris
and it took me 1/2 an hour in front of a mirror to tease it free.
I went blind in that eye for a couple of days from the trauma
 and the vision in my other eye was too poor to drive to a doctor.
It was unpleasant and i was impressed by the number of excitable nerves 
were in my eyeball.

On Jun 23, 2011, at 5:20 AM, John Allen wrote:

> In my shop, you will get fired for being late 3 times in a week, fired for
> being insubordinate, and fired for NOT MAKING EVERYONE wear a FULL FACE
> shield while 1 person is wire wheeling in the 30x30 shop!
> 
> I have had my eye drilled from, doctor diagnosed, metal dust flying off my
> head and into my eye from driving with the window down. I don't want to have
> someone else's eye in my head when all I had to do was wear a shield.
> 
> -- 
> John Allen
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