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DJDarren@thelemmy.club 10 months agoAs 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.
PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
On job sites they told me that it was permanent, were they fucking with me?
Gabu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Welding arcs can make you permanently blind.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 10 months 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.
Gabu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This is false, you can go permanently blind from exposure to high intensity ionizing radiation, which is produced by welding equipment.
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 10 months 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.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 10 months ago
Infrared light of welding can permanently damage the retina, UV the lens.
derpgon@programming.dev 10 months ago
I mean, it worked right?
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Depends if it burned the retina too
rar@discuss.online 10 months 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.