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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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      • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        By the same token you can go blind staring at the sun.

        Which is why nobody does it…

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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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