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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PeleSpirit@lemmy.world 7 months agoOn job sites they told me that it was permanent, were they fucking with me?
DJDarren@thelemmy.club 7 months ago
Gabu@lemmy.world 7 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 7 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.
Gabu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
By the same token you can go blind staring at the sun.
Which is why nobody does it…
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 7 months ago
Infrared light of welding can permanently damage the retina, UV the lens.
derpgon@programming.dev 7 months ago
I mean, it worked right?
AlexisFR@jlai.lu 7 months ago
Depends if it burned the retina too
rar@discuss.online 7 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.
Gabu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Welding arcs can make you permanently blind.