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Shop safety equipment: what is your welding and grinding gear? (35%)

Had a socket spin off the impact wrench. Smacked me right in the face. Thought for sure I was going to be missing teeth or at least having a hole in the lip. Luckily it wasn’t that bad, when I reached up there was very little blood which actually scared me more. Thought that meant it was going to be worse.
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I have a 5" long scar on my leg from a grinder incident about 20 years ago. It was a bitch scouring all of the grinding debris out of the wound. Do not recommend.
 
I've got a scar in my leg 1/2" further down than where my dick hangs. If I bend over they'll overlap by an inch or more.
4.5" cutoff wheel got pinched in the cut, punched myself in the crotch with the grinder still running full speed when I tossed it to the ground
I was bent over at the time
took me what felt like an hour to work up the nerve to check if I got my bits

Dad's wife's parents were over, they don't speak the best english. I wandered through holding my leg closed and all I could think to say is "I've injured myself badly, gotta go now."
Didn't end up doing the hospital or anything, looked similar to OP's cut in the pictures without stitches. Hospitals are where you go to get staph or whatever the shit is.
 
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Tig gloves, ear plugs, safety glasses. I'm generally not a fan of gloves while using power tools, when a blade gets caught in them, it only sucks it into your hand. I need a shop respirator though, got the blacklung a couple weeks ago wire wheeling, grinding, and welding at the back of the shop. Took 3 days before my throat didn't feel like I gargled sand.
 
When I was a young indestructible lad of 18 years. I was cutting a bolt with bolt cutters and ended up with 5 stitches in my eye. Luckily the docs fixed it and told me 1 or 2 mm in either directions I would have lost my eye.

After 20 years in the Corps where we had to wear eye, ear and head protection on the flightline, it has just followed me. Safety glasses all the time, gloves and ear muffs. I have switched to some goggles using the evolution saw since those damm little bits fly everywhere.
 
Sleeves and leather gloves. Try wiping the inside of your faceshield with RainX. I've been doing this for years to prevent fogging.
 
Weasel said:
Uvex face masks. Usually wear long sleeve shirts. If I can manage it I wear my old work blouse.

I like the Optrel helmets.
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I have a Optrel face shield. Love it.
 
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