[Jewelry making - Article 00000] - Re: [Orchid] Shop injuries

[Trevor F]

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    I've been feeling pretty smug throughout my reading of this thread.
    Some of these injuries sound horrible and I've gone pretty much
    unscathed in the shop. But Frank's eyeball story reminded me of my
    one really scary shop incident: 

    I was making a model of a pendant by pinning pieces of wire to stiff
    cardboard with Hot Stuff (Crazy Glue) from one of those hard plastic
    vials.  The glue was old and gelling up a bit so I cut the top off
    the dispenser so i could dip the wires in.  Needless to say one wire
    stuck a bit on the way out of the container, I broke it loose and the
    container spun gracefully on it's base and off the edge of the
    bench, dropping down between my knees. 

    I immediately pull back and look down. The container must have hit
    the hardwood floor square on it's base because a few drops of the
    glue shot straight up --well over three feet I might add-- and
    splattered my right eyeball. I blink. My vision clouds and now I
    can't see out of at least one eye and I can't blink there anymore
    either. It starts to sting like the devil. And then the tears come,
    in a flood. 

    Five seconds later my girfriend walks in and sees Cyclops-boy
    standing frozen in position with gouts of tears streaming down his
    face. She looks down at my feet, sees the glue splattered everywhere,
    turns and walks out of the room. She returns with her coat in one
    hand, mine in the other and we're off to the hospital. 

    Aside from my pride being seriously buffeted by snickering nurses
    everything went fine at the hospital. Apparently the flood of tears
    --which had literally soaked my shirt-- had loosened most of glue
    and they were able to pick most of it out in chunks. I did have a
    slight chemical burn on the eyeball but that cleared up in a few
    days. 

    So the moral of this story is don't look down a vials of Crazy Glue
    that you've cut the top off of and have just fallen off your bench
    ... or something like that.  I use Crazy Glue a lot less now than I
    used to. 

"Let's be careful out there",
Cheers,
Trevor F


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