1. Keep your goggles on
2. Use a barrel plug or barrel sock when ever you are not on the field.
SGMA Extract 2003
While membership in the Extreme Sports category implies a whiff of
danger, only paintball is handicapped by a huge injury taboo, one
that exists in the public mind, but not in the statistics. The
industry has long maintained that the rare (but highly publicized)
eye injury almost always occurs in an unsupervised, unprotected,
often illegal setting; and that paintball is a very safe activity, a
claim substantiated by the current research, as the sport reflected
only 0.2 injuries per 1,000 exposures, the lowest injury rate of any
Extreme Sport. Put another way, the average player will suffer a
paintball injury about once every 500 years.