I got an unexpected and expedited trip to an opthamologist this afternoon. I was hired to tear out and replace 100 ft of fence, do some light grading, and pop a few small stumps in a customer's back yard. I go to wrap a choker chain around a 4" diameter stump and one of the links caught a small branch/twig on the ground. That branch shot up like a spring trap, hit my cheek, and went right under my glasses and into my right eye. I have 2 deep scratches all the way across my cornea now and they hurt like hell. Nothing is in the eye, but it sure feels like I'm getting jabbed with needles still. I had to have my employee drive me to the eye doctors office and had my wife come pick me up.
The irony in that I always wear a hard hat with face shield when doing tree work, but I didn't bring it with me today. Why? I don't know. It won't be left home again though.