Should eye protection be worn when performing necropsies?

Eye protection during microscopy in histopathology: a simple and effective method

“…Despite this, no commercial eye protection devices are available for microscopy and a literature search has failed to find any studies on occupational eye injury sustained from glass shards from microscope slides. This contrasts with other activities in histopathology practice such as gross dissection of specimens and postmortem examination, where the need for eye protection has long been recognized, as well as in other medical specialties such as surgery and radiology, where the risk of eye injury and/or contamination is recognized and protective eye devices are available and their use encouraged 1–7 . In our experience, the risk of eye injury from microscopy is real and we believe that this may be so elsewhere.…”