How I got my laser eye injury
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How I got my laser eye injury
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#2I wonder what happened to literally everyone else present at this situation. That's beyond "Yikes!" territory.
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#3I’m not saying it didn’t happen as described, but this really kinda reads like the “Bald eagle named Albert Einstein flew into the classroom” copypasta…
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#4I wonder what happened to literally everyone else present at this situation. That's beyond "Yikes!" territory.
Yes, I also dislike the culture in which this can be called a funny story. Such culture will cause more incidents. Worked in a laser lab for 5 years without incident in a time when eye safety goggles were not used for visible light.
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#5This was a great read, thanks for sharing!
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#6That is a heck of a cocktail story. A bit more terrifying than I expected. As the safety officer, I wonder what new policies they put into place after this.
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#7I’m not saying it didn’t happen as described, but this really kinda reads like the “Bald eagle named Albert Einstein flew into the classroom” copypasta…
The sales guy set up the entire rig on his own? And no other engineers in the lab stopped to ask what he was doing?
I know some places have poor safety culture, but this is a “laser company”. Basic laser safety should be drilled into them from day 1 and every day after. When I worked in an optics lab, we had interlocks on the doors that switched on with the power supply running the experiment and a sign outside indicating which wavelengths were operating.
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#8> On closer inspection, we later leaned that the Quanta-Ray had burnt through the wheel well and cut the brake line.
The I guess they were lucky that they weren't aiming in the general direction of the fuel tank, or that the "experiment" was stopped before burning through it?
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#9Moral of the story is: make sure and tag the safety officer when you’re being stupid so he can make sure and inform all of the correct people.
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#10I’m not saying it didn’t happen as described, but this really kinda reads like the “Bald eagle named Albert Einstein flew into the classroom” copypasta…
The sales guy set up the entire rig on his own? And no other engineers in the lab stopped to ask what he was doing? I know some places have poor safety culture, but this is a “laser company”. Basic laser safety should be drilled into them from day 1 and every day after. When I worked in an optics lab, we had interlocks on the doors that switched on with the power supply running the experiment and a sign outside indic…
Mm.
Should be, isn't.
I've heard of one place that had a class IV laser mounted on a robot arm in a public area, which turned itself off when the arm happened to flail in exactly the right way to hit its own emergency stop button.