FallTech
Compton, California, since 1992 — one job, done at American construction scale, with a test lab that publishes its own numbers.
Miller
One of the oldest working names in American fall protection, sold with the rest of Honeywell's PPE business to PIP in May 2025 — same harnesses, new hands, and a track record that restarts now.
Miller is the harness name an American safety manager writes on a spec sheet without thinking, and for fifteen years it answered to Honeywell. On May 22, 2025, Honeywell completed the sale of its personal protective equipment business to Protective Industrial Products, a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners, for $1.325 billion in cash — and Miller changed hands along with North, Fibre-Metal, Salisbury and Howard Leight. The catalog is intact. What has no track record yet is everything around it.
- May 2025Honeywell completes the sale of its PPE business to PIP
- $1.325bnAll-cash price for the whole PPE portfolio, Miller included
- 9 brandsNamed in PIP's announcement — Miller and Howard Leight among them
What we'd reach for
- Revolution harnessThe flagship full-body harness family, still listed among PIP's Miller best sellers, including an arc-rated variant for utility work.
- TurboLite+ personal SRLsThe compact self-retracting lifeline range, including the T-Bak twin-leg unit — the everyday retractable of the Miller line.
- Relief StepThe suspension-trauma relief strap that ships clipped to harnesses across the industry. Small, cheap, and the part of the system most often copied.
On May 22, 2025, Honeywell completed the sale of its personal protective equipment business to Protective Industrial Products — PIP, a portfolio company of Odyssey Investment Partners — for $1.325 billion in cash. Honeywell’s release calls it “the completion of Honeywell’s exit from the PPE space,” a process that started when it sold its footwear brands to Rocky in 2021.
PIP’s own announcement names what moved: “Fendall, Fibre-Metal, Howard Leight, KCL, Miller, Morning Pride, North, Oliver, Salisbury, and others.” Miller is the fall protection name on that list, and the reason this page exists.
What Miller makes
The working catalog came through the sale intact. PIP’s Miller pages lead with the H500 and H700 harness families, the breathable AirCore, and the Revolution — including an arc-rated variant, which is why this page carries the utilities chip. On the retractable side: TurboLite+ personal SRLs including the twin-leg T-Bak, the Falcon+ Edge, the MightyLite+, and the MightyEvac+ retrieval unit. Plus the Relief Step, the suspension-trauma strap half the industry imitates.
The usual discipline applies double during an ownership change: ANSI/ASSP Z359 ratings belong to individual models, not to the logo. The standards documents themselves are paywalled, so what you read anywhere — including here — is manufacturer-reported compliance. Check the current spec sheet for the exact model number, because “the same harness” is a claim the label has to prove.
The history page didn’t survive the move
Miller is commonly dated to the mid-1940s and to Franklin, Pennsylvania. We could not verify either on any page the old owner or the new one currently publishes — millerfallprotection.com now redirects straight into PIP’s catalog, and no history section made the trip. Where a figure isn’t published we don’t print one, which is why this page carries no founding year. An eighty-ish-year-old brand whose own story is currently unpublished tells you something about where brand heritage ranks in a portfolio transaction.
Where they fall down
The transition is the open question, and we won’t pretend otherwise. Warranty service, replacement parts, inspection documentation and recall handling under PIP have no track record yet — not a bad record, no record. PIP’s announcement stresses continuity, with the PPE business’s president staying on, and that is a reasonable sign. It is also a press release.
The brand infrastructure has visibly thinned. A dedicated domain became a redirect; a history became a product grid. None of that affects a dorsal D-ring, but buyers who standardize on a name are also buying the organization behind it, and that organization is being rebuilt in real time.
Documentation culture. FallTech runs an accredited in-house lab and publishes test reports. Miller’s compliance claims are conventional manufacturer statements, and during a systems migration between owners, conventional is the thing to verify per model.
Where Miller sits
Miller remains the incumbent American harness name alongside 3M’s DBI-SALA, with FallTech as the value-and-documentation play and Guardian as the self-described independent. Note that Howard Leight, whose page covers its Honeywell years, was named in the same transfer — the two brands’ fortunes now travel together under PIP.
On the documented record: the gear that made the name is still in the catalog, and the company behind the warranty card is new. We rate the first highly and are watching the second.
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