Serious Injuries Need Serious First Aid

270,000 Injuries

Every year, an estimated 270,000 workshop injuries are treated in U.S. emergency rooms.

Lacerations, amputations, and burns can happen in an instant. You may think that buying a first aid kit and hanging it on your wall is all you need, but most over-the-counter first aid kits don’t include the right tools to treat these serious injuries.

Nothing can replace professional medical care, but we designed Makers MedKit to help you stop severe bleeding quickly and stabilize an injury until help arrives.

A Better First Aid Kit

How Makers MedKit Began

After a close call with a router, Brian Grandvall, a Physician Assistant, former medic, Marine Corpsman, and woodworker, had a surprising realization: despite 35 years in medicine, he didn’t have the right equipment to treat a serious injury in his own workshop.

At work, Brian had access to everything he needed. But when he looked for a first aid kit he could buy for his shop, he discovered a problem: no one was making a comprehensive kit specifically designed for the injuries makers and woodworkers are most likely to face.

A few months later, Brian met lifelong woodworker and video creator Michael Alm at WorkbenchCon. After a conversation about shop injuries and proper first aid, Brian shared his idea for a first aid kit built specifically for makers.

Michael immediately saw the need. After plenty of close calls of his own, the two began working together to create the kit they both wished they already had.