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Factory workers, light industry, glass cutting and operations, metal stamping and sheet metal workers run the risk of slices and cuts to their hands. So do extreme snowboarders apparently since DuPont™, who manufactures the space-age Kevlar® yarn, chose to introduce the MCR 9178NFO gloves last year at the Winter X Games in high-fashion and high-safety orange. These MCR Safety gloves feature a patent-protected DuPont™ material. So don't go trying to make your own. It's pro …

Protecting your hands is critical when performing confined space work. But what is the best way to keep them from harm? Is there a possibility of contamination or chemical exposure as well as sharp edges? Do your safety gloves allow you to perform rope access work? Unfortunately, there is no one type of glove that covers every situation. You will need to understand what hazards your confined space offers before you can know how best to protect your hands. We've put together a few gui …

The most common injury among all construction and industrial workers is a hand injury. Makes perfect sense. Our hands are the tools we use most often. And we've all probably put them places we shouldn't. To better protect your important assets, new gloves from HexArmor have been added to our PK Safety site. Glove science has made big advances over the past 10 years. Didn't realize there was such a thing as glove science? Well there is. We send our Customer Service Reps …

We've written in past posts about the importance of hand protection in the oil and gas industry. The statistic that 50% of injuries in this field are to hands probably isn't terribly surprising considering the work, but it does point to the need for better protection as well as improved processes that keep hands out of potentially damaging situations. While hand protection has improved over the past years with notable examples such as the Black Stallion Impact-Resistant Gloves pro …

At PK Safety we're as worried about the Zombie Apocalypse as anybody. Maybe more. And while we lack chainsaws or longswords in our warehouse, we make up for it with loads of other nifty and useful equipment. Whether you're running for your life, or looking for the cure, PK Safety should definitely be on your to-do list before the web disappears for all eternity. First of all, think about picking up a DoseRAE 2 Personal Radiation Detector. This is especially important for you heroes e …

The bubbling crude needs more to get it out of the ground than a shotgun these days. (If you don't get this reference, you obviously didn't watch The Beverly Hillbillies as a kid.) Heavy equipment and worker injuries seem to go hand in hand (pardon the pun). Hand injuries make up nearly 50% of incidents in the oil & gas industry. More than any other body part, injured hands and fingers create loss from worker's compensation claims, work days lost, and related costs. So how do you keep t …

Gloves are sometimes difficult for the layperson to locate online if they don't know the exact name of the glove they are looking for. The reason is partly because the glove nomenclature is tough to figure out if you're not a glove manufacturer or a safety expert. To help sort it all out we'll try to explain one of the most popular categories and provide links to the different types of gloves we carry here at PK Safety. The String Knit Safety Gloves category features some of the m …

There are a thousand type of work gloves on the market these days. Gloves for highly specialized manufacturing and general assembly, and gloves to keep you from developing calluses on your hands while digging a hole. Sometimes they work and sometimes they don't. The more you know about gloves, the easier it is to find the one that will work best for the type of work you do. The first thing to think about when choosing the right glove is to identify the kind of hazards you are exposed to …

Gloves used to be easier. There was generally only one size. They either fit, or they didn't. They either worked, or you didn't wear them. These days there are more choices, and it's a good thing because OSHA requires hand protection as part of safety standard 29 CFR 1910.138. The Bureau of Labor Statistics places injuries to the hands, wrists, and fingers as the second-highest of all workplace injuries behind falls with more than 100,000 annually. The challenge for employers and glove …

The ATG G-Tek MaxiFlex Ultimate Nitrile-Coated Gloves are possibly the greatest gloves ever, if you believe the people who have taken the time to write reviews to our site. Even the titles of their reviews are very positive - "The Bomb Gloves" (not sure what that means, but the rest of the five-star review is exceedingly positive), "Awesome" writes Will from Hell, Michigan, "Best Light Work Gloves I've Used" says Grubby from Chicago, and "Some of the Best Fitting Gloves I Have Ever Used" s …