Lathes makes me nervous as hell, and I'm okay with that. I feel like a healthy level of respect is a good thing. Once you get too comfortable around machinery is when bad things can happen.
We were called to a chicken processing plant where a worker was cleaning a piece of equipment that "chewed" up the chicken. She had her hand in the business end and somehow it turned on. She's lucky to be alive, because it jammed when it got to her wrist. Strangest thing was that production didn't stop in the plant...... a dozen firemen and cops trying to help this poor lady and workers were stepping over and around us like WE were in the way.