"marc rosen" wrote in message
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Hey Gang,
I just got off the phone with my woodworking/windsurfing buddy. He
was being driven to the local hospital for emergency eye surgery
because he just put a nail into his cornea. I was amazed as to how
relaxed and calm he was as he was telling me how he did it (I guess
it's no use to sound excited at this point.) He told me he had driven
a brad through a piece of wood and decided to cut off the exposed end
with some diagonal cutters. As he snipped it the piece was propelled
right into his eye.
****, it takes less than a second to ruin your life. I am a steadfast
safety nut and this just reinforces my vigilance to always have the
correct sfety gear on for the job. I hope that by you reading this it
will also keep you from ending up in the ER or worse.

Marc (who is now bummed out because of his friend)

IIRC Swingman had a very similar incident happen to him however I think his
glasses saved the day.

Hope you friend does well. About 35 years ago a good friend of mine, we
were both 20, was polishing his car with an electric polisher. He laid the
screwdriver he used to open the can of polish near the polisher and as you
may have guessed the screwdriver was caught and thrown in to his eye. He
can see light and dark but nothing else out of that eye.