Steel toed shoes will not amputate your toes. There are, however, severe situations under which they will be unable to protect your toes. Those are conditions under which you would also loose your toes if you were not wearing safety-to shoes.
Scientists wear closed toed shoes during labs to protect their feet from objects and substances that might be dropped, spilled, splashed, etc. Where the objects might be particularly heavy they may even choose to use "steel-toed" shoes to protect their toes from crushing.
Your toes should be in the 'peep' but should not be hanging over edge of shoe.
Flipflops are not appropriate footwear when around horses. Paddock boots are a good alternative. Avoid steel toed boots. The steel that was meant to protect the wearer's toes may collapse under the emence weight of the horse and actually do more damage than good. Save open-toed shoes for places other than the barn.
It could really hurt. That's one reason why most professional kitchens and food businesses require steel-toed shoes.
Yes, generally steel toe safety shoes and boots feel much colder in winter than to other kinds of safety footwear, and do not use steel.
Safety shoes are shoes with a non-slip sole and a steel plate over the toes. The non-slip sole helps your traction on slippery or greasy and oily surfaces. The steel plate protects your toes in the event you drop a heavy object on your toes.
A steel toed boot (or shoe) is used to provide some level of protection for the toes in situations where heavy objects might fall onto them. Many of them are no longer made with steel, but with a strong plastic instead. So they are usually called safety-toe boots (or shoes) these days.
Three toed sloths have three toes (per foot) and two toed sloths have two toes (per foot)
Three toed sloths have three toes (per foot) and two toed sloths have two toes (per foot)
Six toes, six fingers. A two-toed sloth has six toes, four fingers. It has three toes and three fingers
12 toes
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