Vernal Express | 1981-08-13 | Page 8 | Your Garden

YOUR t GARDEN Eye On Safety Few Americans realize it, but each year over 5,000 eye injuries are caused by mishaps in the yard and garden. Pruning a bush can send flying clippings into the eye. A lawn mower can hurl a stone into your eye or someone else's. Chemicals Chemi-cals in pesticides, herbicides herb-icides and fertilizers can severely burn your eyes. Here, from the National Society to Prevent Blindness, Blind-ness, are some precautions you can take: Read thoroughly all package labels and instruction instruc-tion sheets that go with gardening tools ancl chemicals. chem-icals. K'ep others away when you're mowing the lawn. Wear goggles or safety glasses when you're doing yard work. For more information, contact your state Society to Prevent Illindness or the National Society to I'revent Illindness, 7'J Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.