Safety Gogrgles

摘要

There are critical differences among safety goggles. Learn how to choose the right kind for various jobs. Eye injuries are the leading cause of blindness among farmers, and eyes are the second most injured body part. Simply wearing the right kind of goggles, or other protective equipment, would prevent most of those injuries. I've conscientiously worn safety goggles when mixing herbicides for 30 years. But one unexpected event showed me I wasn't wearing them often enough. It happened when I carried abag of AMS out of a storage shed and plopped it down on top of a small poly tank partially filled with mixed herbicide. That tank had a vent in the lid, and herbicide solution shot up through the vent into my unprotected eyes when the bag of AMS impacted the tank. I was scared as I flushed my eyes and called the chemical maker's hotline. I was also lucky. Lucky because that particular herbicide wasn't very dangerous and lucky because it was diluted rather than concentrated. (That mishap also reminded me to keep the herbicide labels handy.)