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When it comes to protecting your eyes you should take no chances. I recommend that you wear safety goggles when doing DIY stuff.
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Having worked in the metal engineering industry I know the importance of safety glasses. Mind you it was reinforced time and time again by our supervisors, Apprentice Master and trade teachers.
It horrifies me to see people not wear them when using tools.
One place I worked at a guy was using a pedestal grinder, and it was a fairly big one. Without glasses. It didn't end messily but he was stupid enough to justify that it was safer to NOT wear the glasses, because they'd shatter and put shards of glass in his eyes.
Of course they're made of plastic. Tough durable plastic. And they'd take the brunt of the mishap. But that would be the least of your problems, a small shard, swarf or even a speck would be enough to injure yourself. If not permanently, then there's the cost of downtime and also the pain involved.
Phew! Sorry about the rant, I get worked up when I think of safety.
A few years back I was training an apprentice to work with fiber optics, namely spicing the glass. I had hired a rough and tough individual that thought wearing safety glasses was for people who were less than smart, whatever that meant.
Now you have to remember that optical glass is very small, normally around 250 microns and without the pigment it is extremely hard to see. To make a long story short, this individual had gotten some of the glass shards on his hand and then he rubbed his eyes. Needless to say on of the shards penetrated the center of his eye. He is now blind in that eye!
He learned a valuable lesson that day. Safety glasses would have saved his eye. He is currently a safety director for Level 3 Communication and is a huge fan of job site safety.