Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
 

I'm somewhere between mild and severe, only happened once but it was from the oddest thing. I sat across the room from an 8 watt UV-C germicidal bulb for 4-6 hours while whoring the internets, as it baked some old school UV-eraseable 27C256. My eye sockets were sunburned and I couldn't go anywhere without sunglasses or my eyes would automatically shut in strong sunlight. That was maybe 3-4 years ago.

Lately it's been coming back, at least it's hard to open my eyes without sunglasses today. My eyesight is fine, no pain, and maybe I'm jumping to conclusions but I'm pretty sure that caused it. Not exactly welder's flash, but close enough.

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Ok this is barely on topic so I can post it at work sans porn..

But my eyes have always been super sensitive to light. More sensitive than anyone around me for any time I can remember. Are yours just now getting more sensitive to light?

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Yup.

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i burnt the ---- out of my eyes once welding... you can't tell until hours later and its like your eyes have a sunburn. it was so painful to blink or even to have my eyes closed because my eyelids would rub on my eyes

it lasted one night, and i put a icey cold rag on my eyes to numb them and i fell asleep

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i had to go to the hospital a few years back...i woke up and it was so bad that the light coming from the gap under my door was enough to hurt my eyes. My eyes have always been sensitive to bright sunlight, and i dont think they have gotten worse since then.

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i have blue eyes so i have always been really sensiive to light like jago said. but i had flash burns so bad it woke me up about 3am and felt like someone stabbing me in the eyes with a soldering iron.. its definatly not fun and that what i get for miging without a helmet. but as far as long term effects maybe but i cant really tell because my eyes have always been sensitive..

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i have a buddy's brother that was not even welding but holding the metal all day long, then night came and they had to call 911 b/c his eys sowal shut and he stated to panic then had a panic attack... he was blind for 2 days.........i hop i never do that ---- to my eyes.....

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my coworker actually has extremely light sensitive eyes. if he goes out in a really sunny day his eyes will close on their own and start tearing up. having light colored eyes doesnt help that either

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"I wear my sunglasses at night"

Well, I did Sunday night, while driving.

Already light sensitive eyes and 4 beers = HOLY ---- those headlights are bright!

In high school I was blown out of a 440v 3 phase box, temp. blinded by the flash.

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Joseph Davis, are you on UTR.org? I see the same avatar there all the time

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I've had arc eye, just thought i'd tack something up while vaguely using a mask. Resulted in eyeballs that felt like sand paper. Wasn't much fun. But i don't think its affected my eye sight, soldering has though.

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For as much as I weld I have never gotten flashed to the point I had any eye discomfort.

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ive had temporary, nothing too serious. mig welding, lining up for a flip mask (no batts for auto dark they died) and kinda forgot to flip it down

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LOL Mista Bone everybody from your generation has a story about being electicuted to near death. What were you guys doing back then "Hey lets like get wasted and like run a new three phase to the welder heheheheh!!!"

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I work at a place that has a big welding/fabrication department and I always look down to keep from looking at the arc...I've been caught off guard a time or two, though, and you can definitely feel it. I can't imagine actually looking at that ---- purposely. I too have blue eyes, I didn't know they were more sensitive like that. I know one time I did get a piece of rust embedded in my right eyeball, and it was like you guys are talking about, you couldn't go out in the sun 4 ---- with your eyes open, and my eye got sooo red, it was extremely unpleasant/uncomfortable,...then I went to the eye doctor and the put this little drill on my eyeball, WILD ----, and gave my eye drops that filled my mouth with the same taste as the drainage from cocaine(you know when it runs down they back of your throat)...acetate i-drops ftw...

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Having Hotrex's foot as my avatar hurts my eyes enough that I can't sleep at night...

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i had welders flash 3 summers ago... woke up the next morning with the feeling of sand in my eyes... went to the doctors and said if I would have stared at the light any longer I would be blind... little did she know I watch beads form for a good half hour... went away after a few days... i came out with better eye sight though

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I caught a flash pretty bad from my mig. I flipped up my helmet, went to lay the gun down and the trigger hit something and got stuck. I was seeing spots for a couple days after, and since then sunlight hurts my eyes on bright sunny days. Driving at night is almost just as bad with car's headlights.

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I burn my cheeks quite often while tigging. I like my helmet in low shade. Face has probably peeled 2-3 time completely. Also when learning on a stick back when I was 15 or so I couldn't see (litterally blind/blur vision past 18",went to the hospital and all). Is my vison worse? Probably. Have a Learned. Yes, no longer tack weld with no mask and ----.

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i work in a steel fab shop. we use MIG machines in the bulk. and ive had flashburn a few times. not to mention numerous sunburns on my face. being a fitter SUX. the sand in the eyes feling is all too familiar. :S

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Nope, the power supply box to the shop classroom didn't have a disconnect. Copper pipe was used in place of fuses. We scrapped out enough A coils to afford REAL fuses. Lucky I was on a ladder or I'd been dead. Flashburn > worst sunburn I'd ever had. Inside of my nose/ears got burnt.

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I had that same exact thing happen this past fall. I'm extremely terrified of putting things in my eyes and have a hard time just putting in eye drops. First they took a pin and scraped out the bigger pieces and then whatever they couldn't get...out came the tiny drill. I nearly ---- my pants. He did it with the lights off so it wasn't soo bad but then he turned them off to do something and forgot turn them back off when he did it the second time. I was like..."ummm could you turn the lights back off." :S Nothing like a dremel with a tiny drill bit coming straight at your eyeball.
Though I never got welder's flash but I get alot of spots kinda like orbs you see in ghost pictures.

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JD.... its time for u to goto the doctor and get a script for tinted windows... well, we in michigan have to have a script if we roll w/ the 2 fronts tinted.

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I don't like tint, its dangerous after dark. Sunglasses work fine.

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I've had my eyelid burned by silicon bubbles popping on the face of some welds at school twice. (wasn't even chipping either off at the time.) Coincidentally I now have one set of saftey glasses set aside in my primary welding helmet solely for wearing when I weld. No grinding, etc that would scratch them up.


I've been flashed afew times by dumbasses not paying attention to what they were doing, acouple of times bad enough to not see for afew minutes, or hurting afew minutes in bright light afterwards. (Probably why osha says you should always wear your lens's with side shields when walking around someplace with welding/cutting.)




The worst welding related I've had so far was at home. I haev some nice tillman gloves I use just at home to tig with. Well I decided I wanted to tig in my cool shades (no facemask), in a sleeveless shirt. I was perfectly fine (even had some 30 sunscreen on since it was a sunny day) welding some .065 stainless exhaust pipe into a collector. A neighboor walked up & asked me if I could weld afew piecies of 3/8" angle iron up for him.
Not 45 seconds into welding that ---- @ 200 amps my face, arms, and left hand felt like they were on fire. My face & left arm blistered over & peeled over that weekend, it was aweful. I'm not the kind of person that sunburns either, I just go straight to tan...
Moral of the story, welding nekkid is stupid. There's a BIG differance in 40-80 amps for small ---- VS real amperage...
So wear your long sleeve blue jean shirts, pants (NO TATTERED CLOTHES), and always use gloves. Even in your filler hand...
Everyone on here oughta have hearing protection.
and don't take the god damned gaurds off your saws & grinders. Jesus ------- christ some kids are god damned retardid...





Kids nobody will take care of your saftey for you. It is your own responcibility to watch your own ass. Use working saftey gear...

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and have good venitaltion & filtration where needed. filtration is alot more needed than people think too, especially in woodworking, and any type of sanding/blasting(wood/metal/plastic).

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i had flash burn a few years back,

i ended up nailing like 6 blankets to the window so there wasn't any light, and stuffing a bunch under the door,

i turned my T.V on and turned the brightness down to like ...1 or 2 ...my eyes had to adjust to see the t.v.....took like and hour,

took like 3 days....i only came out at night if all the lights were turned off,

...non-mask wearing stick welding FTW !! :1 after that, i bought a freakin welding hood, and stoped welding...pretty much alltogether

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I flashed some people in chem burning magnesium in oxygen, buahahahaha >:D

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tig is the worst. nothing to obscure the light. (no smoke, you see the arc directly since the torch is out of the way).

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yeahhhhhh

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Ive fucked my eyes so bad welding fluxedcore without a mask TWICE, both times missed a day of work, it doesnt hit til nighttime, once went to the doctor, second time I still had left over drops

---- does that pain ever hurt

Both times my eyes were BLOOD red, just nonstop ------- pain