I was out working on my harness bar last night with the grinder. I couldnt find my full face shield, and i thought id be fine with just safety glasses. I was wrong. I know it was dumb so dont tell me how ******* stupid i am. Im lucky i didnt lose my eye when it broke the glasses. A lesson learned. I have some deep scratches on the cornea, and the white of my eye, but the ER dr said it would be healed on its own in a couple days. Visions fine too.

 

Exploded disc??

 

yepp it broke in half, but luckily when it broke the halfs split but didnt break so it didnt hit me with the cutting edge as hard as it couldve. I think if it wouldve id have a massive slice up my face. Theres also a pretty deep cut underneath the side of my nose you cant see in the pic.

 

wow you are lucky dude. same thing happened to me at my shop, but the disc exploded and hit me in the right shoulder. seriously felt like someone punched me in the arm super hard. i have a nice scar too. glad to hear you are going to fine tho. thank your lucky stars....

 

ouch. sorry man.

 

Lucky guy. Did you buy a lottery ticket that day?

As an ex Snap On tool dealer I got into a lot of all kinds of shops, witnessed a lot of stupid **** and saw the aftermath of a lot of it. Maybe you younger guys have never seen how "the old guys" used to, and probably still do, remove the inner axle bearing race off an axle. Rest the race on an anvil and slam a 10 pound sledge on it to shatter the hardened race rather than set up and use a press. A young guy in a Toyota shop needed 15 stitches where a piece of razor sharp shrapnel hit his arm. I was there for that one. Another guy in a truck shop was putting a wheel together after mounting a new tire and was airing up the tire RIGHT NEXT TO THE CAGE he SHOULD have been using. The lock ring wasn't seated properly and the tire exploded and damn near cut him in half. He won't be mounting any more tires. Another guy was charging a battery, bent over it, it exploded in his face and now he'll never see his beautiful wife again. But he did get a guide dog.

At the risk of sounding like a preacher, THINK about what you're doing and THINK about ALL the possible scenerios if ANYTHING goes wrong. I just isn't worth saving the few seconds it takes to use safety gear and procedures.

Sermon over.

 

When using a zip cut always stay off to the side.. I wear my welding helmet for face protection. and technically it does **** all if it did explode..

at least you didnt loose an eye.

 

Don't feel bad about sounding like a preacher. This is an important lesson that unfortunately some people have to learn the hard way (no offense OP).

And to the OP, you got damn lucky this time.

 

I know, and i was being somewhat safe, i did use safety glasses just not my full face shield like normal since someone got in my tool chest and messed with it.

I think i might get one, and i think im gonna pick up a torch cutter so i use the grinder less.

 

at least you were wearing safety glasses! I'd hate to see your eye if you weren't

 

Man your lucky. Corneal scratches hurt like no other.

 

yes they do, Vicodin ftmfw!

 

damn

reminds me when i was cutting the muffler off my cousins neon

i was using a disk with a slight crack in it, but was still held together fine... at least i thought... and as im cutting (no safety glasses, no anything) it breaks and hits me right in the face, my face was all cut up and ****... luckily it didnt hit my eye

 

so lucky ihad the same thing happen as well but didnt hit me igot lucky..i also had my window open once and i was passing a truck n a rock hit me in the face got close to the eye as well

 

damn whered ya dig this one up? lol

 

someone has no life aha

 

**** i totally forgot about this thread.