angle grinders and idiots

[Bonzo]

Another guilty party here ........... Quite often rely on my glasses for that quick little job

Mental note to self .... Walk 4 paces & get the full face screen hanging on the Argon bottle, every time !!??

Not very pleasant having a piece of metal fragment lodged in the eye ......... Same story from me, having to have a piece of alloy swarf sugically removed from my eye

Has your nose stopped running yet ?? ....... Strange how your nose seems to be attached to the eye

Hope you get sorted soon.

[AshG]

last year i had all my safety glasses, gloves overalls on when grinding. the grinder snatched come out my hands through the glove and my skin hit the floor smashed the disc which then exploded on the floor and come back up to bite my face.

end result hole in glove badly cut hand smashed safety goggles and gouge out of my forehead.

since then i have started using my air grinder more and more purely due to the fact that if you drop it the thing stops unlike the electric one.

one thing i can say is if i didn't have the goggles on i would have been one eye short

[aerosam]

Reformed character here - some years ago I had to cut off the bottom ball joint from my capri. Same old story, no gogs, metal in the eye, surgical removal etc.

Since then I use a full face mask every time, I have one that has a guard that goes right under your chin that catches and rebounding sparks from getting under the shield. It wasn't cheap but personally I don't want to put a price on my eyesight.

[flyerncle]

I had the same encounter as Davey,s friend with a large angle grinder with the exception that it was the correct voltage and I was lucky enough to be wearing the right gear,full shield gloves and a hat.
The only thing damaged was my pride and a near soiling disasater.

Build safely out there,the machines are not dangerous only the user's.

[Balidey]

I tend to use the wrap around shades type safety goggles.

I too have had to go to A&E to have a metal splinter removed from my eye. I was under my car cutting out an old manifold stud and had my goggles on. Finished the job, got out and stood up, lifted my goggles up and onto my head and in doing this a shower of swarf fell out of my hair and a bit landed in my eye. How bloody unlucky is that?

[HandyAndy]

Talon...... hope you get sorted ok,

this thread is a good reminder to us all, we pick up these tools without giving it a second thought...............until its too late, i use a grinder almost every day, tho i do wear safety goggles & gloves even tho at times i think "ah its just a smidge of metal i,m removing, i,ll be ok" ,,,,,,,,,,

in a strange way , thanks for the reminder of the dangers we face.

get well soon Talon.

cheers
andy

[flyerncle]

And the worst thing you can do is plug it in without checking to see if it's on !