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As a former welder, I’ve had arc-eye and it’s really unpleasant - like someone put sand in my eyes and I couldn’t get it out.

However, it heals pretty quickly, so I’m gonna carry on thinking this is pretty funny.

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PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
On job sites they told me that it was permanent, were they fucking with me?

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- Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Welding arcs can make you permanently blind.
  
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- DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yeah, they were. However, getting grinding sparks in your eye and letting them sit there for 24 hours because you thought it was just a bit of arc eye is a little more permanent, and you get told off by the nurse at the eye hospital while she’s picking rust off your eyeball.
  
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  - Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    This is false, you can go permanently blind from exposure to high intensity ionizing radiation, which is produced by welding equipment.
    
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    DJDarren@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You’d have to be staring right at it for a protracted length of time. By the same token you can go blind staring at the sun.
    
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  - MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Infrared light of welding can permanently damage the retina, UV the lens.
    
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- derpgon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I mean, it worked right?
  
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- AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Depends if it burned the retina too
  
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- rar@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I suppose it’s recoverable on low intensity, but they had to scale up the warning because of “manly job dudes” who ignore safety precautions all the time.
  
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