Safety Share: Very fortunate (Slightly Graphic) Safety Glasses

Sharing a safety incident that happened with our corporate family members out west at a family farm (non-work related). Just validates our safety practices on and off the job.

This man is very fortunate. Learn from the events of others.

-MB

Good morning, I just wanted to take a minute and let you know about a direct hit but a big time near miss we had this weekend. I was helping a buddy get his equipment ready for harvest in the central Washington area over the long weekend as we were working on a seed separator there was a lot of dust and small crap in the air as we started the machine. They were getting ready to test the seed belts by putting a 1’’ galv pipe with a tray at the end of it into the machine. I told John to hold on one sec and went to my car and grabbed the pair of $1.28 nemesis safety glasses from work for him. John put the glasses on and put the tray into the seed spinner, just as he went to grab the sample the extension joint on the test tray broke the 1” pipe fell into the seed spinner and shot right back at Jon hitting him dead center of the lens, John is 300lbs and it put him on his butt. The safety glasses did cut his eye lid and the lens in his eye had to be replaced but as the Dr said if he did not have a pair of $1.28 safety glasses from Riverbend Materials on he could be dead or at the min missing an eye never being able to see from it again.

-JB

Thanks for the share, MB!