I've had lots of pokes, stabbings, & break & fly upward into my face events here & there with various guitar, autoharp, harp, mando, mountain dulcimer & oud strings, but thankfully not into the eyes. I've had a charging trumpet player run into me & permanently scratch my eyeglasses. Or a band director loose his grip on his baton more than once-in rehearsal &/or in concert-which sent flying right at me since flutes are often on the front row in concert bands. Flying banjo & guitar heads swing around & knock right into me. Fellow actors open their arms & swing their hands right into my face during song & dance numbers live onstage. It's fun to be short?
When i was in highschool marching band, lots of fun things happened, but the ouchiest one was when the band director decided that we should do sets of pinwheels which required me to go back & forth with the low brass section. He carefully planned it out so that Willey-6 1/2 feet tall & 1 1/2 feet taller than myself-would be the one swinging his slide above my head as we marched. He forgot about that when Willey was sick & replaced by a backup feller who held his trombone pointing 45* downward (against the rules!) & clobbered me, effectively punching my lights out & knocking me to the astroturf during a gigantic halftime show. The band carried on, stepping carefully over & around me while the ambulance guys were trying to haul me off the field. I haven't fully trusted a trombone player since.