I usually advise against using gloves when working.
Nearly every tool you use will have a rotary action of some kind. If a portion of your glove was pulled into the rotary action, you're in real danger of losing fingers.
Drill presses, drills, lathes, rundown spindles... etc.
It's happened here, not to the FIRST team but to the factory workers, 3 times in the last 5 years. People used gloves and were not supposed to. Women especially tend to fall victim to this because they don't want to mess up their nails/hands. Most gloves are made of durable nylon or even worse, kevlar. It doesn't tear or rip - it just tightens around whatever it happens to be around until it pulls it off.
Just grin and bear the scrapes and aluminum slivers - it could be a lot worse
