“These things can happen in the blink of an eye,” says Galloway. She talks about a worker she treated one summer who tried to use a screwdriver to dislodge a nut, which was stuck. The screwdriver flew back and struck him in his eye. He wasn’t wearing protective eyewear.
“I had to remove his eye. That was a 100 percent preventable incident,” she says, adding that the man was lucky to walk away with his life.