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  • steveg
    Member
    • May 2001
    • 460
    #1

    Paintball eye injuries

    Being one of those people who has recommended safety glasses or mask ANY time you fire a PBmarker (and was called a fascist for my efforts) this might be of interest to those that do wear eye protection

    That is an abstract from an article published by the Southern Medical Journal. http://www.sma.org/smj/

    p.s. found this posted by amog over at tinker's guild
    Last edited by steveg; 05-17-2002, 08:52 AM.
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    • BradPalooza
      Registered User
      • May 2001
      • 377
      #2
      Good reading, everyone should see this
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        • FrAuStY
          a.k.a. Tom Green
          • Apr 2002
          • 1247
          #3
          Wether I'm at home or at a field.. if I have paint in the gun and the saftey is off I have a mask on and so do the ones around me. I guess its just morals I was brought up with. Anytime there's a firearm loaded... wether safety's on or off, YOU DON'T POINT IT AT SOMEONE! (Unless you're trying to kill them i.e. defending home and loved ones)I took these beliefs over to paintball when I picked it up.

          I was always taught that personal safety and preservation should come first in any instance there is a weapon involved, be it a knife, sword, gun, or yes.. a paintball marker. I've gone to some fields that were privately owned (buncha rednecks in the woods) they had no chrono, no barrel plug rules or regulations. They were shooting in the staging area.. I was like WTF are you people thinking?! Just because you wouldn't intentionally shoot someone in the face doesn't mean it couldn't accidentally happen. Think about that next time you're at your field or at home and just wanna shoot some.

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            • cledford
              Registered User
              • Feb 2001
              • 1386
              #4
              From a poster at PB Nation:

              ""Jim, back to your cave. Bob Long is on the batphone..."

              MY FEEDBACK

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                • FrAuStY
                  a.k.a. Tom Green
                  • Apr 2002
                  • 1247
                  #5
                  With that point being very well noted (I agree alot with what you have said about officials interfering with the growth of the sport) I would like to point out what I posted about
                  Results. Ten cases of ocular injury from paintball pellets were recorded. Most patients (9) were injured at home or at a friend's home; only 1 was injured at a war game facility.
                  With that info.. 10% of injury's occur where the insurance would be covering! The other 90% occurs off the field and because of the Marker Owner's mistake/stupidity. What are these poeple thinkin? Jeeze

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                    • FatMan
                      Fat Wang
                      • Feb 2002
                      • 926
                      #6
                      Doesn't add up

                      Well, first off they had 10 cases, but reported 11 results. Throws off the percentages. 10 cases isn't enough to draw any conclusions at all about the frequency of damage. None at all.

                      But the biggest flaw in your logic is that somehow this means full-auto or high ROF isn't a safety issue. With full auto and high ROF the likelyhood of MULTIPLE impacts goes way up. The likelyhood of more damage goes up with it.

                      There's no place for full auto in normal paintball. It is simply overkill. There really no need for over 13bps either. No problem if the mechanism is faster than that, but the trigger and/or feed rate doesn't need to be any higher than that.

                      Safety is certainly a big part of that - and not just to the eyes. But even more so the play just doesn't need it.

                      FatMan

                      Dirty old men need love too!

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                        • Bartleby
                          Purple People Eater
                          • Sep 2001
                          • 803
                          #7
                          it's just a matter of responsibility and i think i agree that eye protection must be sold with markers. i think that's an excellent idea.
                          "To serve to strive and not to yield"
                          --------------------------------------
                          I AM THE PURPLE PEOPLE EATER!

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                            • steveg
                              Member
                              • May 2001
                              • 460
                              #8
                              Cledford a ball in the eye costs the insurance companies
                              money, most likely more to repair,than to deal with a ruined eye.

                              Without reading the full report (paid subscription site)
                              It's impossible to know if the 9 had lingering pain
                              or what other side effects might have been suffered. maybe
                              they were 9 Damned lucky people to keep their eye. maybe
                              they had the best eye surgeon in the country.

                              There is just no reason in the world to not put on a pair
                              of safety glasses or goggles

                              the way I read it is goggles= no chance of ball in the eye

                              no goggles=what IS going to stop the ball

                              I do wonder were balls 20>40 of a close 20bps 2sec. string
                              will stop, not at the skin, would be my guess

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                                • MrShutter
                                  I live in poverty
                                  • Apr 2002
                                  • 79
                                  #9
                                  They use the word "ocular" too many times in that article.

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                                    • tarrasque
                                      #10
                                      I think the closest i came to getting hit in my eye was in april. i was wearing a proteus mask and i was hit near my eye and the paint started to leak into my eye. that was the nastiest feeling ever it stung so bad that i was yellin about it and everyone thought i was hit in the eye...this is just a reminder that if i wasnt wearing googles i would not just be complaining about a sting but a nice crater wear my eye was!!!!

                                      thankyou goggles!!!!!!!!

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