Yeah, they were. However, getting grinding sparks in your eye and letting them sit there for 24 hours because you thought it was just a bit of arc eye is a little more permanent, and you get told off by the nurse at the eye hospital while she’s picking rust off your eyeball.
Yeah, they were. However, getting grinding sparks in your eye and letting them sit there for 24 hours because you thought it was just a bit of arc eye is a little more permanent, and you get told off by the nurse at the eye hospital while she’s picking rust off your eyeball.
This is false, you can go permanently blind from exposure to high intensity ionizing radiation, which is produced by welding equipment.
You’d have to be staring right at it for a protracted length of time. By the same token you can go blind staring at the sun.
Which is why nobody does it…
Infrared light of welding can permanently damage the retina, UV the lens.