I've been stuck by jacket fragments 3 times now, where I had to pull the piece out of my skin.
I don't know how anybody ever shot a blackpowder flintlock without eye pro, they throw stuff everywhere.
Had muzzle brakes throw rocks and junk so hard that they chipped my glasses. Usually when the shooter is next to me, the clamshell ones seem to be the worst offenders because if you are next to one, you are looking right down the exhaust pipe.
One time grinding some metal I changed from an angle grinder to die grinder with a big cutting wheel, and directed all of the sparks straight at my belly. They bounced off the metal I was leaning on and went straight at my eyes. My eyepro stopped maybe 10,000 of them little high speed glowing chips, but one got in under my goggles and stuck in my eye. To shorten up the story, the first doc I went to was at urgent care, he said he didn't see anything (what he meant was that it was beyond his skill, but I didn't get the referral I needed).:banghead: After turning into unbearable pain where both eyes swelled up, I made it to the eye doc. A couple days later when the eye doc pulled it out, it went "boink." Then, he had to grind the rust out.
A few days later I had to go back in and the other eye doc was in, she ground some more rust out, it had made a rust ring. They both used a little burr that looks like it belongs on a dremel, with a miniature sort of medical looking battery powered roto tool, and I had a divot in my cornea for a 6 months or so, which gradually filled in, now a white scar there. And my eye was itchy for several years afterward. Luckily, the damage is outside of my vision. She said that if it were in my vision, it would be blurry forever, or I guess until a cornea transplant.
So then, my other eye has a similar scar from charcoal, it sizzled in and again back to the eye doc and have it scraped out and ground. Never would have guessed that, I dumped the last bits from a charcoal bag into the fire and it flared up and threw sparks out. By that time, I had been through the grinding it out thing twice before, that eye doc said I was the most steady patient she had seen, I said it was all the practice! Kind of freaky cause you can see your reflection in the slit microscope lens... Aahhh, the memories.