My grandad has a story about the company photographer, who he was friendly with, coming in to the office looking pretty faint one day. Supposedly the poor bugger had been tasked with taking photos of a recent accident where some kid with long hair (as was fashionable at the time) got his head removed by a wheel lathe.
I see gloves on a drill press quite alot on youtube videos. There was even one electronics engineer who went out of his way to make a point about how you MUST wear gloves on a drill press. Some people just don't think.