Safety Flash: Eye Injury, Wire Wheel Grinder
11-10-2009, 06:58 AM
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Safety Flash: Eye Injury, Wire Wheel Grinder
I got this over an email at work ......
A worker wearing safety glasses was using a grinder with a wire wheel to clean some metal.
He stopped grinding, took his glasses off and saw a spot he had missed. He picked up the wire wheel and
turned it back on but failed to put his safety glasses on.
A loose strand flew up from the spinning wire wheel and hit him squarely in his left eye.
He was taken to a local medical centre where they performed surgery some four hours later to remove the wire.
During his recovery he swallowed vomit into his lungs and was placed into intensive care for a day. He was
released from hospital after 3 days and is expected to make a full medical recovery but will require either
glasses or contact lenses to correct his vision.
The following photograph will make the ophthalmology text books, the wire strand had punctured his eye to a
depth of 13mm.
Lesson Learned:
This incident will convince you to wear your PPE or nothing will.
This is an extreme case where failure to use eye protection could have been life threatening.
A worker wearing safety glasses was using a grinder with a wire wheel to clean some metal.
He stopped grinding, took his glasses off and saw a spot he had missed. He picked up the wire wheel and
turned it back on but failed to put his safety glasses on.
A loose strand flew up from the spinning wire wheel and hit him squarely in his left eye.
He was taken to a local medical centre where they performed surgery some four hours later to remove the wire.
During his recovery he swallowed vomit into his lungs and was placed into intensive care for a day. He was
released from hospital after 3 days and is expected to make a full medical recovery but will require either
glasses or contact lenses to correct his vision.
The following photograph will make the ophthalmology text books, the wire strand had punctured his eye to a
depth of 13mm.
Lesson Learned:
This incident will convince you to wear your PPE or nothing will.
This is an extreme case where failure to use eye protection could have been life threatening.
11-10-2009, 07:36 AM
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yup safety is a big thing at work, must ALWAYS wear your PPE it just aint worth it..... always remember to wear it at home aswell, a coworkers brotherlaw was also injured in the eye like that at home when doing his yard work with the weedeater....
11-10-2009, 08:49 AM
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