a Division of Parmelee Industries, Inc.

Parmelee Industries, Inc. was founded over 60 years ago on the ideal of providing worker protection. Its operating division, U.S. Safety  is dedicated solely to the production, manufacture and sale of personal protective equipment.  U.S. Safety  today manufactures a full line of personal protective products, including prescription and plano eyewear, respirators, goggles, faceshields and welding helmets. It is one of the top three companies in the U.S. fabricating protective safety prescription eyewear.

In 1935, the foundation was laid for Parmelee Industries by Mr. A. F. Parmelee, who was doing consulting safety engineering work for many utility companies throughout the nation. He established United States Safety Service Company (U.S. Safety) and moved into a small office in the Uptown Theater Building on Broadway, Kansas City, Missouri, in 1941. There was one employee-- Mr. Parmelee's wife.

The business soon outgrew this small office and, in 1943, moved into larger quarters at 3613 Broadway, where Parmelee Industries, Inc. was formed to become the manufacturing arm of the business. It was there, in 1944, that the "Saf-I-Shield" one-piece plastic goggle and the "Expendable" Salt Tablet Dispenser were put into production. These were the first products manufactured and sold by Parmelee Industries.

The Company continues to expand and grow. U.S. Safety's new corporate headquarters in Lenexa, Kansas includes its corporate offices, a central distribution center and warehouse facility, and a new state of the art, prescription eyewear laboratory. This new facility has doubled the capacity and capabilities of its prescription eyewear business and focused that division as the company's core business.

U.S. Safety currently has manufacturing facilities in Windsor, Missouri; and Lenexa, Kansas. It has sales offices in major industrial cities of the United States, and its customers range from fortune 500 companies, state, local and federal government agencies, to walk in customers at its Lenexa headquarters.

The company employs over 100 full time people in U.S. operations.