I feel your pain.
Okay, not really.
Almost did myself a bad too a couple weeks ago as I was working on my cranks.
I usually err on the side of haste gets you injured but I stared at that narrow wide bad boy for a second and decided that I'm too old for that *****. Wrapped the ring with a rag. Twice.
Still hurt when I broke the pedal and hit the ring but at least I didn't break skin.
Put on some Neosporin to help that boo boo along.