I think someone else brought up the eye. I've had a small spec hit my eye before when my goggles weren't fitting tight against my face because I was kind of hanging with my head down using an O/A torch. It was one of those 1 in 10,000 chances that it worked it's way inside and into my eye. Like the other person said, it didn't feel all that bad till later that night. Then it just kept getting worse and worse. Luckily my wife at the time knew an optometrist and he agreed to meet us at his office.
Have you ever had hot slag burn down inside your boot?
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Shield Arc
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There is an old trick to getting small pieces of steel out of your eye. But you have to catch it with in the first few hours or your eye will produce a film over the piece of steel!
Take a match from the cardboard cover book of matches, stick the match head right on the piece of steel. The match will suck the steel right out of your eye.
I've also used magnets to remove small pieces of steel from my eye.
Take a match from the cardboard cover book of matches, stick the match head right on the piece of steel. The match will suck the steel right out of your eye.
I've also used magnets to remove small pieces of steel from my eye.
There is an old trick to getting small pieces of steel out of your eye. But you have to catch it with in the first few hours or your eye will produce a film over the piece of steel!
Take a match from the cardboard cover book of matches, stick the match head right on the piece of steel. The match will suck the steel right out of your eye.
I've also used magnets to remove small pieces of steel from my eye.
Never heard of either of those, hopefully I'll never have to try them; but thanks.
In one of my more "brilliant" moments one time I decided I didn't need a shield or safety glasses to do one short little grinding job. After all, it wasn't going to take but a second or two. I think you can guess what happened. Off to the doctor where he deadened the eye and used the dye and black light trick to find the tiny spec of steel that wouldn't wash out and I couldn't see myself.
When I can see them myself I just take a clean handkerchief and wipe it out with the corner.
Shield Arc
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I had to go to the ER one time to get some steel out of my eye. Doctor did the dye and black light procedure. All he could find was a groove cut in my eye. Turned my eye lid inside out, the steel was stuck to my eye lid.
Go in for a MRI, tell the tech you weld for a living, see how fast they send you to an eye Doctor before doing the MRI! :laughing:
Go in for a MRI, tell the tech you weld for a living, see how fast they send you to an eye Doctor before doing the MRI! :laughing:
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Once when chipping weld slag a piece popped off and landed just inside my nose! WOW, every time i touched it to get it out, it pressed deeper in the skin. That hurt for a while.
joshuabardwell
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I always put my welding hood down when chipping slag. It's a little annoying, but I've been hit in the face with hot slag a time or two, and I don't like the thought of what it would do to my eyes or other sensitive parts of the face. It's more an issue with 7018's heavy, solid slag.
charlz
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I spent a summer in high school cutting up boxcars as salvage with O/A torch. More than a few times had hot slag would burn through the tongue on my boot. The steel your standing on is usually hot so quite the dance to get your boot off, slag out and boot back on without ever letting your sock foot hit the deck Sometimes slag would get down your collar and sit at the beltline, I still have scars there. Once I had a piece of slag go inside my welding glove, it just kept smoldering in the liner and I couldn't put my glove back on. I walked over to the Oxy tank and scraped some of the frost off the valve to shove down in my glove and cool the slag. Went to grab a second bit of frost and my now wet finger froze solid to the brass. I paused for a second before I realized it was not going to warm up enough to release my finger... could feel the cold moving in. I had to leave a few layers of skin stuck to the valve and took quite a while to heal
Also in high school I took welding and the first part was O/A welding. We would weld in little booths with a partition between you and the guy next to you. One day I am welding in the booth next to a friend when it started to smell like branding season. I shut off my torch and leaned around the partition "Hey, do you smell...." to find my friend was not there. Looked around and he was over at the deep sink running his hand under water. Apparently he was not wearing a glove on his rod hand and reached across his own torch to grab a new welding rod out of the holder. He had a blackened area almost an inch wide and 2-3 inches long across the back of his hand
Sometimes slag would get down your collar and sit at the beltline, I still have scars there. Once I had a piece of slag go inside my welding glove, it just kept smoldering in the liner and I couldn't put my glove back on. I walked over to the Oxy tank and scraped some of the frost off the valve to shove down in my glove and cool the slag. Went to grab a second bit of frost and my now wet finger froze solid to the brass. I paused for a second before I realized it was not going to warm up enough to release my finger... could feel the cold moving in. I had to leave a few layers of skin stuck to the valve and took quite a while to heal Also in high school I took welding and the first part was O/A welding. We would weld in little booths with a partition between you and the guy next to you. One day I am welding in the booth next to a friend when it started to smell like branding season. I shut off my torch and leaned around the partition "Hey, do you smell...." to find my friend was not there. Looked around and he was over at the deep sink running his hand under water. Apparently he was not wearing a glove on his rod hand and reached across his own torch to grab a new welding rod out of the holder. He had a blackened area almost an inch wide and 2-3 inches long across the back of his hand
luvmexfood
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Brings back memories of when I was in High School in the late 70s. Took welding classes 1/2 day because at that time coal mines were running wide open and if you could weld you had no problem getting a job with great pay and benifits. That ended just as I entered the work force. Anyway we soon learned ,stick welding back then, when you got hot slag on you to be still and let it burn in one place. If you moved it just moved to another place and burned again.
Interesting tale. I took a job with a major construction company building a coal preparation plant. My job was working in the office and had to make daily safety inspections. Some iron workers were welding up panels on a huge water tank. While making my inspection I stated that what they were doing looked easy. They did not know I could weld and I asked how they did it. Anyway they told me to try it if I thought it was easy. Laid down some of the best beads I ever welded and said " yep pretty easy". After some cussing and being called a smart ***** (all in good fun) I left. Brings back old memories.
Interesting tale. I took a job with a major construction company building a coal preparation plant. My job was working in the office and had to make daily safety inspections. Some iron workers were welding up panels on a huge water tank. While making my inspection I stated that what they were doing looked easy. They did not know I could weld and I asked how they did it. Anyway they told me to try it if I thought it was easy. Laid down some of the best beads I ever welded and said " yep pretty easy". After some cussing and being called a smart ***** (all in good fun) I left. Brings back old memories.
