How have I not seen this thread before? Idk, but the story's about the metal in the eye and burn make me cringe. I have had some close calls with sharp and flying objects coming at my eyes. None of them actually doing any damage, but some close calls. I only have one good eye, and I have to make it last my whole life. My left eye has always been extremely bad ever since I was born , so my right eye has to do all of the seeing. If I do anything to damage my right eye, I'm screwed. So that means prescription safety glasses along with a full face mask when I'm around any kind of cutting tool (Torch, Angle Grinder, Saw-zall, etc.). I put those rules on myself because I would rather not be blind in the future.

I haven't had any bad injury's scrapping aside from the ice pick incident (There is actually a thread about that somewhere on here) and the sunburn I seem to get every time I go to the scrapyard. I have some really bad farmers tans from that, especially along the back of my neck. Aloe Vera sooth's the soul.