Never heard of anyone breaking their foot from a metatarsal guard, but having been required to wear them for several years I can see how it could happen. I think alot of what happens depends on what type you wear. The ones I wore had the guard on the outside and it was hinged so it would allow almost normal foot movement, but did make things like squating down to do something a royal PITA (or should I say in the foot). At the time I got mine I tried several different brands and styles and all of the internal ones I tried restricted the natural movement of the foot and I figure could very easily cause an injury in the right circumstances, not to mention they were just plain uncomfortable to wear when you were on your feet for a 12 hour shift.
As far as steel toed boots, I've been wearing them for close to 30 years because I work on heavy equipment. Funny thing is that when somehting drops it usually hits the metatarsal area instead of the toe.... so it hurts anyways. Fortunately I've never had any problems with mine, nor known anybody to have a body part amputated due to wearing them. On the other hand my dad wound up losing his big toe when a 1500 lb track pad fell and scissored the end of his boot. In that case he was told that had it not been for the steel toe he would have lost all of his toes. In another instance a guy on the flight deck when I was in the Navy got his foot ran over by an F18 Hornet. Because of the steel toes in his boot he came away with a severaly bruised foot, but at least he still had it.
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