The summer before I started nursing school, I worked in a factory that made baseball hats. A few weeks into the job I was put on an eyelet machine that the woman sewing beside me warned me was malfunctioning. The person who had been using it refused to use it because it was not safe. About that time, the machine jerked, caught my index finger & put an eyelet in it! I lost the end of my finger. That was many years ago but I am still very uneasy using new machines.