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The American Optometric Association estimates that 110,000 people last year had some type of eye injury at their own home.
When you are doing jobs such as lawn work, cleaning, woodworking, and housework you expose you eyes to many threats such as:
-caustic chemicals
-sawdust
-flying chips of wood, stone, nails or bolts
-ceiling tile staples
-protruding wire
-branches of trees and shrubs
If you wear glasses or contact lenses, you still need to wear safety goggles over them because neither offers adequate protection in eye hazardous situations. If you have questions about safety eyewear, ask your optometrist. When you are doing chores such as lawn work, cleaning, wood working, and house work, you need to use the American Nationals Standards Institute (ANSI) approved Z87.1 work goggles to keep your eyes safe from hazardous materials. You can buy them at your local hardware store.
You need to visit your optometrist every 1 or 2 years to make sure eyesight is still good. Changes in vision are subtle and often go unnoticed. It could be that undetected vision problems are the real cause of:
-Smashed thumbs
-Uneven wallpaper
-Mistakes in measuring
-Or misread instructions