I almost took my eye out today

this morning I was cutting sheets of laminate down at work, then I flicked a piece of laminate up in a freak accident. It hit me straight in the pupil and I thought I took out my right eye. It hurt for a good amount of time afterwards, yet I said nothing about it while it happened or to my co-worker Ben who was in the office working on his computer. I came inches away from wearing an eye patch. Weird.....