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.
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.
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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Welding arcs can make you permanently blind.
I mean, it worked right?
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.
This is false, you can go permanently blind from exposure to high intensity ionizing radiation, which is produced by welding equipment.
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.
Which is why nobody does it…
On the contrary: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungazing#:~:text=Sungazing is the unsafe practice,often near dawn or dusk.
Infrared light of welding can permanently damage the retina, UV the lens.
Depends if it burned the retina too
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.