I’m a welder by profession, back in the late 1980s this old man was teaching me and told me to protect my eyes because “there is the only part of your body where your guts are showing“ this lesson stuck with me to this day.

I lost sight in my right eye last month in a workplace accident and I was wearing all th safety gears for our job. I was hit by a small metal wire from a fence that went in trough my eye, it smashed trough the safety visor on my helmet and my eyeglasses and is now stuck in my brain. So nice to see videos like these. 👍

The candy eyes might not show the damage done by the very tiny hot metal fragments, but i’m sure real eyes would be quite negatively affected

I wouldn't necessarily count it as "lucky" if your eyes survived but you now have a 5cm strip of bearing frame stuck in your frontal lobe...

Your wife's maniacal laughter after seeing that watermelon get gored is haunting

It is amazing how much energy a ball bearing can store and how quickly it can release it under pressure.

Honestly I think if you put your face a foot away from a press while smashing things, safety glasses will be the least of your concerns.

This should be shown in safety meetings in every machine shop in the world

I know it's fake eyes, but still gives me the willies to watch.

I wear my safety glasses while watching these videos!

Many lessons to be learned:

I never before considered the use of safety glasses in preventing Spontaneous Industrial Lobotomy.

I would love to see this repeated with ANSI Z87.1 and/or EN 166 rated facesheilds.

That watermelon, eyeholes red and blown out, with headphones under a harsh light is the stuff of nightmares.

You said it was only 90% "don't try this at home", so I took the 10% chance and tried it. You were very close. I only lost 87% of my vision. You guys are getting good at this!

As a Safety engineer, I LOVE you videos. This is one of the main areas I have pushed at all the jobs I have held. Bad thing about being a safety engineer, we put ourselves out of a job. We fix the workplace then management no longer sees our benefit.

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Its insane how loud and dangerous pressing a deck of cards really is

Wow. Out of ALL the years of you running this experiment you have finally demonstrated with this video how lethal working with brittle metal parts can be when put under a high amount of stress. It may not happen to you today or your friend next week but the right conditions for the 1 in 1000 will cause LETHAL repercussions.

That watermelon is very, very dead.