I almost lost our eye at work this week! My coworker and I went to a ventilation job to replace 6 ft of air duct.
My coworker was cutting the sheet metal and I was welding the pieces together, then every one of us finished numerous feet of air duct before lunch! After tacos and burritos, we went back to the job to finish the rest of the work, i was toiling next to our coworker, and he was cutting the sheet metal while I used a small torch to weld the pieces together in the shape of a square, and somehow a piece of sheet metal came flying out of his hand and hit me right in the face, however thankfully, our instinct was to raise our hands in front of our face.
The thick piece of metal hit me right in the face and missed our eye socket by a millimeter. I had a huge gash down the side of our face and I was bleeding badly. I left the ventilation jobsite to go directly to the emergency room. I could barely see, but I managed to find our way to the hospital. I had to get numerous stitches near our left eye and the dentist said I was really lucky that the metal didn’t hit our eye directly. It would have left me blind in that eye. My boss told me to be more careful, but I do not know what we could have done differently to avoid the accident altogether. It really was a single of those freak accidents that you can’t method to avoid because they shouldn’t happen at all.