..subtitled, Thank God For Faceshields.This story starts, as do most stories of accidents, with a poor choice on my part: trying to make a miter cut with a chop saw on a piece that, in retrospect, was really too small to try to hold with my free hand. I should've used a clamp.Apparently, it shifted a bit when the saw blade hit it, and the blade grabbed it out of my fingers and -- somehow -- threw it *toward* me. At about mouth level. Right into the faceshield, so hard that _it knocked it off my head_.I'm basically unhurt: my left thumb has a minor bruise from the workpiece being wrenched out of my hand, I have superficial cuts on two knuckles from sharp edges on the wood, and another bruise on my left pec where the wood hit after bouncing off the faceshield. Still haven't found where it went after that...Lessons:1. Clamp small workpieces.2. Wood sometimes can be ejected in unexpected directions.3. Clamp small workpieces.4. Respect the power of a kickback.5. Clamp small workpieces.And, last but not least... if you've been around this ng for any length of time, you've heard me say this before: You have other things on your face besides your eyes that are worth protecting! That's not the only reason I use a faceshield instead of goggles -- but it's the only one that's on my mind right now.

--------------------------------Number One Safety Rule:SHIT CAN SMALL PIECES.Lew

Why I Never Wear Safety Goggles...

Sep 19, 2010 42 Replies

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Larry Jaques 15 years ago

Because 99.999999% of the time, "perfect" wasn't.

Sacre bleu! You refuse to bow and scrape to my magnificence?

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Lobby Dosser 15 years ago

I wish! Got ill middle of last week and ever since there's been a Boston Pops military tunes playing in my left ear. They break now and then for something from Tom Jones ...

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Larry Jaques 15 years ago

You, sir, just qualified for Mental Health bennies. Sounds like Hell. I'm happy with the screech of tinnitus, TYVM.

-- Some people hear voices. Some see invisible people. Others have no imagination whatsoever.

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