You're tied off on a steel-frame project on the West Shore of Staten Island, leaning into an angle grinder to cut a stubborn piece of rebar. The cut-off wheel hits a hidden weld, shatters, and a fragment of the disc punches through your safety glasses — or worse, you weren't wearing any because no one on the crew had been issued the right ones. Within ninety seconds, your right eye is bleeding, your vision is gray, and a foreman is hustling you toward a pickup truck. By the n