Safety, electrical arcs and contact lens wearers
November 23rd, 2007 | by admin |Inaccurate safety bulletins distributed at companies throughout the country have spread concern that industrial welders who wear on the job risk serious and permanent eye damage.
The bulletins report that in two separate incidents microwaves produced by the electrical arc or spark dried the fluids between the eye and the contact lens, causing the workers’ contact lenses to be fused to the corneas of their eyes.
The bulletin further claims that when the workers removed their contact lenses, the cornea of the eye was removed along with the lens. Removal of the cornea without surgery is a medical impossibility.
Furthermore, investigations of the incidents described in the safety bulletins reveals that eye injuries sustained by the workers were not the result of exposure to the arc flash, but rather the result of improper care and overuse of the contact lens.
