Sidebar: What contributes to eye injuries at work?
1 Not wearing eye protection. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that nearly three out of every five workers injured were not wearing eye protection at the time of the incident.
2 Wearing the wrong kind of eye protection for the job. About 40 percent of the injured workers were wearing some form of eye protection when the incident occurred. These workers were most likely to be wearing protective eyeglasses with no side shields, though injuries among employees wearing full-cup or flat-fold side shields occurred, as well.