[Wil]

To support this:

From the old Oddworld.com:

Your safety is important to us at SoulStorm Brewery. With so many moving parts and doohickeys, accidents are all too easy. Which is why we take the precautionary method of sewing your eyes shut when down in the mines. We want your eyes to stay put, not to be thrown to the ground like a marble by a piece of wayward cave ceiling…and with your eye lids firmly covering them, we never have to worry about THAT happening. Thank goodness!

To oppose this:

From Oddworld Universe (not the fansite):

Let me ask you this. If it’s dark all the time, do they need ? I mean really need ? to see? They’re just slaves in a mine. They work by feel. If they can’t see, then they won’t notice they’re mining the bones of their own ancestors in Necrum. Besides, I’ve got a line on a profitable after-market for Mudokon eyeballs …