Month-old steel-toe work boots have several "cuts/nicks" especially around toe and heel of boot. Typical? - old metal with wood handles antique squeezers

This is my first pair of shoes to work every time, so I expect no idea what a view, to take away. I work in a workshop production of steel and I all made of metal, wood (especially laser cutting sharp metal nail palettes. How can I avoid even more brutal, cutting and abrasion, or is it the way it is?