Re: Re: Wear eye protection

Posted by bob on April 13, 2004 at 14:25:48 from (24.145.166.158):

In Reply to: Re: Wear eye protection posted by john in la on April 13, 2004 at 10:58:18:

I've got a souvenir pair of safety glasses hanging on the shelf above my bench. I used to be a Central Office installer for United Telecom (now SPRINT), and worked in several large central offices where there are very large 48-volt battery strings capable of delivering thousands of amps of current. One day I was working in the cable racks cutting loose some cabling and accidently stuck one side of my snips into a frankel (battery cable connector) The other end of the snips hit the cable rack, and the front half of the snips vaporized and welded the hinge together. The handles burned a couple of rings around my fingers, and the molten metal from the snips sprayed everywhere, some of it melting partway into the lenses of my safety glasses, other parts burned into my skin and clothes. It took a couple of days for the flash spots to go away from my vision, but I'd likely be blind now if it wasn't for those glasses.

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