I did something completely stupid Wednesday and it cost me two good days away from my Wheel Horses. I am restoring a 416-H and was using a wire brush to remove paint on a few pieces of metal. Now I have at least four pairs of safety glasses in the shop, two of which I just bought because they were on sale. You would think I would have enough sense to use them once in a while.
I had to go to the emergency room and sit for at least five hours waiting to be seen. Finally a very good doctor started working on my eyes. He removed six pieces of grit from my eyes. They left several holes and I will have to go to my eye doctor and have her zap them with a lazar. Not a catastrophic event, but it sure could have been. I will never pick up a grinder or anything like it again without first putting on those glasses.