Thread: Have you used your wire wheel/bench grinder wo glasses?

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I don't use my bench grinder for much other than sharpening or cleaning tools, I have a belt grinder that I use and I wear a full face mask when I use it. the angle grinder is where I often just wear the glasses if it is going to be a short job, the other day I was using a cutoff wheel and had it come apart, a shard went by and hit my cheek (I had the glasses!) I was lucky it didn't cut me.

Red

I've had a VERY small steel splinter drilled from my eye once.
I didn't know exactly what it was for a day or two, until it created a rust ring

Not fun.
That was from grinding with sun glasses only.

Not a chance will I ever run a grinder or wire wheel w/o some sort of safety goggles or shield. I made a trip to the doctor to get a couple of pieces of non-magnetic steel out of my cornea - he used a drill device and it HURT. The week of an eye patch on my dominant eye was bad. This steel passed over the top of a full face shield, thru one of the holes in my goggles, past my safety glasses and lodged, evidently from heat, next to my contact lens that I was wearing at the time. It was while I was working in a manufacturing plant and was deburring a large rotor from a motor so was required to have this equipment - and it was investigated and charged as a lost time accident. Since that incident, I no longer wear the conventional goggles but wear the chemical style with a single covered vents. And I don't wear a face shield as I feel that the chem goggles provide me with enough eye protection - but do occasionally find a wire from my rotary brush sticking out of my forehead or nose - and the worst offenders are the DeWalt rotary brushes sold by HD or Lowes - even worse then the cheapy Harbor Freight junk