Even if you are wearing prescription safety glasses, there is always a chance that you may need more protection. A vast majority of eye injuries at the workplace are preventable. Even so, according to OSHA, about a thousand eye injuries happen daily in workplaces across the USA. This leads to loss of production and incurring medical expenses. According to OSHA, most eye injuries occur because either you were not wearing eye protection or you were wearing the wrong type of eye protection