Broke many bits in my day, but this one just went bang into several pieces. One cut my face and other went "ping" off my glasses. 1/4" on my drill press, a good Milwaukee drill bit from HD, not a cheap set.
Back in the day I was spotty about wearing safety glasses, this time it would have been disastrous. Stupid lucky, getting older was a good thing for once.

Absolutely correct!!!
For us older guys who need reading glasses they offer safety glasses with different strengths.
Glasses 1

Glasses 2

Here are some full vision (entire field magnified)
Full

saving an eye..... its all worth the BS of wearing them .smart move on your part

One rule in my garage: There should be a set of safety glasses within three feet of you no matter where in the garage you are.
Making them convenient is the easiest way to make sure everyone wears them.

If you would like to test that rule, come on over for a beer

Stu

dang man your tight ....even when your buds drink beer they have to wear them ...

.....Good advise......I use them all the time

I learned that lesson a few years back. If I get out a rotary tool that's powered by anything but my arm I put on eye protection. Well. except a drill/driver when driving screws that is. I do that all too often.

although I am not the best about wearing them as much as I should. Mainly because I need to have some made in my prescription.

When I was about 10, my brothers had a '65 Mustang convertible that I was helping them fix up. I ended up with a small shard of metal in my eye, and I didn't know it. I kept rubbing it, which made it embed in my cornea. It didn't bother me too much until the next sunny day when we went to a Reds game. Holy did it hurt!

Mom took me to the opthamologist and he attempted to dig it out with a hypodermic needle, but I kept moving. He told me to hold still in an exasperated voice. I asked him if he thought that he might be able to hold still if I was holding a needle to his eyeball, and he got my point. He ended doing surgery. When I woke up, he apologized for being kind of a jerk and told us that he would not have been able to get it using the needle. He actually had to drill it out. I was really lucky that it did not go any deeper.

That was 33 years ago, and I remember it well enough to know that I don't want to go through it again.

Yup. Had a piece in my eye from my bench belt sander for almost a week. Was getting red, ok got red, was about to go see the eye doc and out it fell. Eye was back to normal next day, but I keep safety glasses at every power tool now.

Have them on all the time at work. I lost count of how many times I have had shit "ping" off the lenses.

I've been to an opthamologist twice to have crap pulled out of an eyeball. Years ago. Saw that drill close up and personal. I don't need to do that again.

Me too! And flash burns several times. Mostly while welding in the shipyard next to two other guys all day. Can't help but get nailed. I wear cheaters now but put on over googles and ear protection when grinding, drilling now. I'm going to check into the cheater saftey glasses in that link!

Rule in my shop was if you wanted the day off just let me catch you without your glasses. First time Second time See ya!