Incident Report

Subject:                       FW: Gulf Coast Info Exchange: Eye Wear 

Date of Email reporting Incident:   Mon 10/09/2001 12:46

Report Detail:

Think You Don’t Need Safety Glasses Working in Your Yard…Think Again!

 A contractor employee at the Kennedy Space Center was edging his lawn wearing sunglasses (not safety glasses). As he was in the process of edging, something brushed his face and knocked the sunglasses off. With both hands busy with the edger, he kept going and didn't stop to investigate the incident.  Shortly, he went back to pick up the glasses, and was shocked to find that a screw had penetrated the sunglasses.  The force of this screw hitting the glasses had knocked them off! This man's brother-in-law is an eye doctor, and he stated that the screw would not have blinded this man…it would have killed him! Behind your eye socket, there is no bone between the eye and the brain. Anything that has a lot of force can go through the somewhat soft tissue of your eye and into the brain.