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Oil Grip/Dry Grip

When rig safety advisors ask for a high-grip solution to their hand safety needs, it doesn’t always mean the same thing; different lubricants, oils, and slip hazards show up in different places, and require very different palm treatments. HexArmor® offers a versatile array of grip solutions; PVC-dotting, guardplate palms, TP-X® reinforcements, or combinations of these technologies increase friction and reduce slip hazards on-site.

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IR-X® Impact Protection

Hand contusion injuries have been prevalent enough on rigs to force many companies into “No-Hands” safety policies – but in many cases, rig workers may still need their hands to get the job done. HexArmor® stepped in with proprietary IR-X® impact technology, the most advanced impact resistance available. Whether racking pipe or operating tongs, your team members will need the highest level of smash protection to ensure their safety.

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SuperFabric®: Cut Level 5 Protection

Laceration hazards can be extremely difficult to identify.  Hand tools, frayed wire, and sharp edge covers can all quickly become frightening dangers.  HexArmor® offers the highest level of cut protection on the hand safety market.  Our proprietary SuperFabric® technology has been trialed and tested on rigs for almost a decade, with constant design improvements to account for the variability in these types of injuries.

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Industry Products

Oil Field Smash Injury Reduction

Designing high performance hand protection with global petro-chemical companies

For global petro-chemical service companies like ExxonMobil and Halliburton contractor employee hand injuries represented a disproportionate source of costly worker downtime and insurance claims. ExxonMobil initiated an in-depth study of hand-injuries and established safety glove guidelines and standards in 2008. Initial studies identified smash injuries as the leading cause of on-the-job hand injuries. Industry partner and contractor Halliburton, collaborating with ExxonMobil’s efforts, refined hand-injury research and discovered that while smash and pinch injuries were significant in oil field work (approximately 45% of all hand injuries), cut and puncture wounds also represented a higher than expected percentage of hand injuries (nearly 50% of all hand injuries) than initially thought.

SEARCHING FOR SOLUTIONS AND SETTING INDUSTRY STANDARDS

With ExxonMobil establishing industry safety standards for protective oil and gas field gloves, and Halliburton fully engaged in the hazard discovery process, the next logical step was to find a glove on the market capable of meeting the new industry standards, or locate a technical glove designer and manufacturer capable of engineering a safety glove capable of reducing or eliminating debilitating hand-injuries associated with the oil and gas drilling, transportation, construction and refining processes.

Research conducted by ExxonMobil and Halliburton, of safety gloves available on the market, revealed that most construction gloves offered little protection against cut, puncture, smash and pinch injuries. Some of the glove manufacturers contacted resisted modification of glove designs to meet the new industry standards due to lack of design and engineering assets or resistance to the costs involved in retooling production lines.

One company, however, welcomed the challenge of designing and engineering a technical glove to meet the demands of tough oil and gas field applications: HexArmor®.

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