That was a really bad experiment. It barely even showed what was obviously going to happen, why not secure the glasses and tomatoes if you’re going to do it.
Helmets when riding bikes too. When I was ~13, my buddy came over and we decided to ride to the tennis court on our bike. I only had my helmet so I gave it to my buddy. I was going to go without then thought “eh ill look in side quickly”. My dads helmet was inside the door so I threw it on at the last second. Ball of tennis balls got jammed in my front spoke. Dont remember that day at all except the “eh might as well take a quick check” that tiny decision saved my life as I got a serious concussion and full face scrape even with that helmet.
I often work in a scenery shop for theatre and am amazed how many people either don’t wear safety gear or go “in wearing normal prescription glasses so I’m safe” and it’s just astounding because it’s so dumb.
I get your logic, but holding the balls from the top of the bag (think under my hand between it and the handle) and letting them swing freely beside the wheel, I doubt that cosmic difference would have helped. It was a BAD accident and I don’t know how I would be so stupid but I literally can’t remember how I would think that was safe due to the accident…
I’d like to see a comparison between safety glasses and regular prescription glasses. As an every day spectacle wearer, I often wonder if they protect me enough in a lab setting.
my coworkers are using nail guns all day without safety glasses. it makes me cringe. they said they close their eyes when they shoot and i said that it’s gonna go through your eyelid fam.
And for those of you who wear regular glasses, consider bifocal safety glasses instead. Available tinted or clear and up to +2 diopters for just a couple of bucks more than regular safety glasses.
I use them for all work I do with tools.
If you need to actually show someone why they need to wear em. Show them a real human being getting fucked up. It’ll put it in reality. These tomatoes are wicked inaccurate. Maybe good enough for the layman. But most don’t enter situations you need em.
Sounds gruesome sure but it’s really just the best way. This video showed me that it’s a 50/50 Chance they’ll help if I’m a dumbass. Cuz one didn’t even do anything.
Even with safety glasses I managed to get a piece of metal in my eye at my old job. It had to be drilled out with what was basically a very small die grinder.
Fun fact: ~~Your average pair of~~ Some safety glasses are capable of stopping a .22 lr bullet fired out of a pistol. Even some cheap ones. I get some from work for free and even those will stop a .22.
Fun fact 2: The pistol part of the original fun fact is important because the barrel length of a .22 lr rifle is long enough to accelerate the bullet to fast enough speeds that it can penetrate the safety glasses.
This video loses almost all credibility for having the glass debris enter through the area where a nose would have been. I mean at least create a prosthetic nose from modeling clay or something to block the flying glass particles. You went through all this trouble yet leave a huge gap in your simulated, yet otherwise realistic scenario?
I used to hate wearing these in school until my sophomore year. My automotive teacher almost lost his sight. He was wearing sunglasses and using a grinding wheel. Whatever he was grinding exploded and the metal shavings went underneath his not recommended glasses and cut deep maybe a quarter of an inch below his eye.
He wore the recommended glasses from then on, but it was so scary. He used that story every year after, I wore them everytime I stepped foot in the shop.
I used to hate wearing these in school until my sophomore year. My automotive teacher almost lost his sight. He was wearing sunglasses and using a grinding wheel. Whatever he was grinding exploded and the metal shavings went underneath his not recommended glasses and cut deep maybe a quarter of an inch below his eye.
He wore the recommended glasses from then on, but it was so scary. He used that story every year after, I wore them everytime I stepped foot in the shop.
Sorry but isn’t this one of the the most pointless videos ever?
Are there really that many people questioning the science or the logic behind protecting your eyes from shards of glass and sprays of hot water?
Do we really need scientists and experiments and internet videos to convince people to protect their eyes from dangerous shit?
At what point do we let all these people that are violently offended by the idea of protecting their eyes from danger just go blind so they can be happy?
I was using a nail gun to put down some blocking and bracing on a flat bed a while ago and I took a nail to the face. I was a lucky one, the nail didn’t penetrate as the angle was way too shallow and it shot across the deck and thankfully the nail hit me broadside *just* below the eye, the very top of the bone, and got my nose as well. The bad thing it I still don’t wear eyepro I just move along…I also don’t stand directly across the deck as I hide behind the tire when the other person is nailing.
Safety glasses are obviously mandatory when working in hazardous environments, but a tomato is a really bad substitute for an eyeball.
Eye’s are actually a lot tougher than you’d think, definitely harder to pierce than a tomato skin, but the problem is that even very small cuts and punctures in the wrong place can have serious consequences.
It’s extremely unlikely you’d split an eye right open like that.
This reminds me of the time I built a fire using a 12-pack beer cardboard box as kindling but somehow failed to see there was still a beer hiding in a corner slot. One of the shards ended up embedded in my girlfriend’s eyelid. I still cringe about that.
That’s why my eyes are pierced and peeled, I think should order some glasses!
Does there really need to be a video on why ?
Carol never wore her safety glasses. Now she doesn’t need them.
Just saw a workers comp claim where a guy didn’t feel like wearing his safety glasses. A drill bit he was using snapped and blinded him. Whoops.
[And because Norm says so.](https://youtu.be/enBG2oeFb18)
But fuck safety gloves am I right?!
That was a really bad experiment. It barely even showed what was obviously going to happen, why not secure the glasses and tomatoes if you’re going to do it.
Ok, but like, no shit though.
Used to watch these fellas’ videos when I was taking chemistry a while back, how nice to see them again!
In addition to eyes, protect your hearing with earplugs.
Helmets when riding bikes too. When I was ~13, my buddy came over and we decided to ride to the tennis court on our bike. I only had my helmet so I gave it to my buddy. I was going to go without then thought “eh ill look in side quickly”. My dads helmet was inside the door so I threw it on at the last second. Ball of tennis balls got jammed in my front spoke. Dont remember that day at all except the “eh might as well take a quick check” that tiny decision saved my life as I got a serious concussion and full face scrape even with that helmet.
I often work in a scenery shop for theatre and am amazed how many people either don’t wear safety gear or go “in wearing normal prescription glasses so I’m safe” and it’s just astounding because it’s so dumb.
That’s why I always use the ‘safety squint’
I can put my arm back on. You can’t. Play safe.
This man looks like the human embodiment of science.
I get your logic, but holding the balls from the top of the bag (think under my hand between it and the handle) and letting them swing freely beside the wheel, I doubt that cosmic difference would have helped. It was a BAD accident and I don’t know how I would be so stupid but I literally can’t remember how I would think that was safe due to the accident…
But I kinda want to see eyeballs from the butcher
when my teachers told me to draw a scientist, this is the guy that I drew.
> You can’t throw away your eyeballs… more than once
Welp, I guess is am going to wear safety glasses when heating water filled sealed glass tubes from now on. What a stupid experiment.
can we just stop carrying the dumb and lazy? This whole fucking world can go so much further if we didn’t have to babysit the incredibly stupid.
I don’t think anyone doubts the glasses will protect them. They doubt whatever they’re working with will explode.
This belongs in r/OSHA
what about if i have my safety squints on?
I’d like to see a comparison between safety glasses and regular prescription glasses. As an every day spectacle wearer, I often wonder if they protect me enough in a lab setting.
my coworkers are using nail guns all day without safety glasses. it makes me cringe. they said they close their eyes when they shoot and i said that it’s gonna go through your eyelid fam.
And for those of you who wear regular glasses, consider bifocal safety glasses instead. Available tinted or clear and up to +2 diopters for just a couple of bucks more than regular safety glasses.
I use them for all work I do with tools.
If you need to actually show someone why they need to wear em. Show them a real human being getting fucked up. It’ll put it in reality. These tomatoes are wicked inaccurate. Maybe good enough for the layman. But most don’t enter situations you need em.
Sounds gruesome sure but it’s really just the best way. This video showed me that it’s a 50/50 Chance they’ll help if I’m a dumbass. Cuz one didn’t even do anything.
Even with safety glasses I managed to get a piece of metal in my eye at my old job. It had to be drilled out with what was basically a very small die grinder.
Fun fact: ~~Your average pair of~~ Some safety glasses are capable of stopping a .22 lr bullet fired out of a pistol. Even some cheap ones. I get some from work for free and even those will stop a .22.
Fun fact 2: The pistol part of the original fun fact is important because the barrel length of a .22 lr rifle is long enough to accelerate the bullet to fast enough speeds that it can penetrate the safety glasses.
But you CAN throw one eyeball away twice*
This video loses almost all credibility for having the glass debris enter through the area where a nose would have been. I mean at least create a prosthetic nose from modeling clay or something to block the flying glass particles. You went through all this trouble yet leave a huge gap in your simulated, yet otherwise realistic scenario?
I’ll remember this the next time I’m heating a small tube of water to the point of explosion, thanks.
this made me uneasy… poor lil tomatos
So like the glasses stop things from going into your eyes? This is amazing, these things will change safety forever!
I used to hate wearing these in school until my sophomore year. My automotive teacher almost lost his sight. He was wearing sunglasses and using a grinding wheel. Whatever he was grinding exploded and the metal shavings went underneath his not recommended glasses and cut deep maybe a quarter of an inch below his eye.
He wore the recommended glasses from then on, but it was so scary. He used that story every year after, I wore them everytime I stepped foot in the shop.
I used to hate wearing these in school until my sophomore year. My automotive teacher almost lost his sight. He was wearing sunglasses and using a grinding wheel. Whatever he was grinding exploded and the metal shavings went underneath his not recommended glasses and cut deep maybe a quarter of an inch below his eye.
He wore the recommended glasses from then on, but it was so scary. He used that story every year after, I wore them everytime I stepped foot in the shop.
Sorry but isn’t this one of the the most pointless videos ever?
Are there really that many people questioning the science or the logic behind protecting your eyes from shards of glass and sprays of hot water?
Do we really need scientists and experiments and internet videos to convince people to protect their eyes from dangerous shit?
At what point do we let all these people that are violently offended by the idea of protecting their eyes from danger just go blind so they can be happy?
Bad experiment. It did not take into account the Safety Squint.
Can we get the Slow Mo Guys on YouTube to do this? Maybe using the eyeballs from the butcher…
I used to have a pair of prescription Raybands that looked exactly like his! The black with white accent reminded me of old school white wall tires
I was using a nail gun to put down some blocking and bracing on a flat bed a while ago and I took a nail to the face. I was a lucky one, the nail didn’t penetrate as the angle was way too shallow and it shot across the deck and thankfully the nail hit me broadside *just* below the eye, the very top of the bone, and got my nose as well. The bad thing it I still don’t wear eyepro I just move along…I also don’t stand directly across the deck as I hide behind the tire when the other person is nailing.
tah mah toes
Safety glasses are obviously mandatory when working in hazardous environments, but a tomato is a really bad substitute for an eyeball.
Eye’s are actually a lot tougher than you’d think, definitely harder to pierce than a tomato skin, but the problem is that even very small cuts and punctures in the wrong place can have serious consequences.
It’s extremely unlikely you’d split an eye right open like that.
Right, but what if I don’t plan sticking my face right up to glass tubes and heating them till they explode?
Maybe, just avoid that and you are good.
Does off brand Einstein have more science videos? Super interesting stuff.
Fake science because tomatoes can’t even wear safety glasses. They don’t even have arms to put them on.
Well, that’s why OSHA always tries to enforce it. It sucks by the fact that this is common knowledge, but sometimes it just isn’t common practice.
This reminds me of the time I built a fire using a 12-pack beer cardboard box as kindling but somehow failed to see there was still a beer hiding in a corner slot. One of the shards ended up embedded in my girlfriend’s eyelid. I still cringe about that.
Just got totally pitted man. Sooo pitted.
Well, that’s what the safety squint is for!