This Shop Hires Blind People To Make Aerospace Parts!

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It’s giving those with disabilities a new lease on life and independence.

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00:00Losing your vision changes the way you might interact with the world forever, and losing

00:08another sense like hearing makes everyday activities even harder.

00:11But at a more than 100 year old machining shop just outside Seattle, one man who has

00:15lost both his eyesight and his hearing is not letting adversity stop him from working.

00:20This is 59 year old John Romish.

00:22He's been working at the Lighthouse for the Blind for 25 years, doing heavy duty machining.

00:27So what is he making?

00:28Well, everything from bespoke items to canteens to aerospace equipment.

00:32Romish says that as his vision degraded, he was fired from his other jobs, finally finding

00:36Lighthouse.

00:37And he's been there ever since.

00:38Pat O'Hara, the company's COO, says they employ the highest number of legally blind people

00:42west of the Mississippi, which is good news.

00:45As he also says that some 70% of blind, blind and deaf, and blind people with other disabilities

00:50remain unemployed.

00:51It's given them an opportunity to hold their head high and do something that, you know,

00:56not everybody would expect you to be able to do as a blind person manufacturing airplane

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