Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
 

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 ----.

Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
 

Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
 

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

Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
 

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.

Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
 

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.

Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
 

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.

Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
 

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

Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
 

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...

Re: Long term eye damage from welder's flash?
 

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).