Your brain is your first piece of safety equipment.

[Pb2au]

I was casting yesterday morning. All was well in the universe, radio low in the background, work area nice and clean. Nothing underfoot to cause chaos. Safety glasses on.
I run an older Lyman pot that has a large shelf on top. I keep one ingot on there to preheat while I am casting. when the pot runs low, I can add the ingot and I get less of a temperature drop.
I think you can see where this is going......
The time came to add my ingot. I set my mold on the trivet, and promptly picked up the pre-heated ingot of lead. With my bare fingers........
I got the ingot up about two inches, my figures said that they were done being subjected to stupidity and promptly dropped the ingot into the pot. I got one tiny splash of lead on my lifting hand, about the size of dime. Now I have a dime sized blister where that was.....
So kids, the moral of the story is;
Take your time. This is not a race.
Be careful.
Where the proper PPE.
I like to think that I learn the hard lessons so I can share them with others.

P.S.
The most irritating thing about this was that adjacent to my pot is my pair of channel locks I use to add ingots to the pot.

[Maximumbob54]

I haven't tried with my bare fingers yet but I seem to like trying to burn holes in good leather gloves.

[44-40 Willy]

Been there, done that. Back when I was welding regular, I'd stop welding on something, take my gloves off and then pick it up. Never held onto one for very long.

[Ranch Dog]

I remember a fellow over on Cast Boolits forgot his pot was on in his barn, went to town, and when he came back there was no barn

The worst I had was a big horse fly circled me and the pot and only the good Lord knows why he landed directly on the alloy. I immediately ducked and a very loud pop sent splatters everywhere!

[mikld]

I remember early in my casting I dropped two perfect bullets from my mold. I got so excited I picked one up! Yep, 700 degree lead burns, and pain hurts...