Refinery – Page 2 – Riggs Machine and Fabricating, Inc.

Is Your Scaffold System OSHA Compliant?

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Do you use long term scaffolding in place of permanent platforms? Are they stable, secure and up to the new OSHA regulations? Are you still renting your scaffolding and paying for it month after month?

FALL PROTECTION & SCAFFOLDING VIOLATIONS

remain among OSHA’s most frequently cited standard violations.*

OSHA violations are now subject to higher penalties,

this signals a 78% increase in penalty amounts.*

Convert your temporary, unstable scaffolding to a sturdy, permanent structure. No more rentals, no more repairs, no more guard rails that are dangerously low and above all, avoid the fear of those outrageous OSHA fines.

A Riggs Machine representative will review your current needs and outline the best options for your facility. We even offer 3D renders of the unit before construction begins so you can visualize the actual unit design.

Walkways – Handrail – Ladders

Riggs can not only deliver new assemblies for your facility, but update your existing equipment to bring it up to the new standards.

OSHA – Final Rule to Update General Industry Walking-Working Surface and Fall Protection Standards

OSHA – Top Violations

* bdlaw.com – Notes regarding OSHA penalty increases and violation citation frequency.

Witch Hat Strainers

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Ever lose a bolt while working on your car, and then have a hard time finding it? Imagine that while working on industrial piping. Well it happens. When a new pipe goes up, many items can find their way trapped in the pipe, and when the unit is first started up, those items go racing to the end of the pipes. Many times leading into a unit or a pump.

A simple bolt in a new pump is a recipe for disaster. The pump is blown. It has to be removed and repaired. They are often in hard to access locations, covered with guards and shrouds. Crews come in! Permits! Downtime! Behind schedule!

But this simple item could have prevented that. The Witch Hat Strainer (also called a Start-Up Strainer), is placed in-line to catch items like bolts, nuts, tools, debris and anything that may have found it’s way in the line during installation or maintenance.

A novel idea that saves time and money.

Custom Replacement Parts

04/18/2018RMF

Your facility has a 50 year old unit and replacement parts are not available. You have no drawings and the few parts you do have look like this!

This is a problem we see with the aging facilities common in our area. Luckily quick in-house replacement parts are one of our specialties.

No on-line hunting for parts – No stealing from other units! Give Riggs a call and get running again.

The Gator – First Test

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The Gator is a remote controlled tank cleaning unit we built for Veolia Environmental Services. It is driven into large tanks to clean the walls of hazardous materials. Its infrared lights cut through the dark and mist while recording all operations from the safety of a control booth.

This is a test of the unit running up a ramp and squeezing through a manway as it would enter a tank in the field.

Boiler Boxes – Refurbished

03/30/2018RMF

In a hot-job shop you never know what will come through the doors.

old manway boiler box — Old Manway Boiler Box

old hatch boiler box — Old Hatch Boiler Box

Take these worn boxes that attach to the sides of boilers. We needed to reuse some of the components, but build new, stronger frames.

new frame in process

These new Boiler Boxes will fit just like the old ones, but last a lot longer.

new flange boiler box — New Flange Boiler Box

new manway boiler box — New Manway Boiler Box

Boiler Face Plate w/Expansion Folds

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A boiler gets hot, really hot. And when it does, the walls expand.

To help control expansion, one solution is to cut slots in the walls and weld “Expansion Folds” over top of these slots.

This gives the plate a little more room to expand as the pressure builds in the unit. They are placed around the plate helping it expand as it heats.

How Safe Are Your Work Platforms?

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sturdy platform sturdy platform - front

How safe do your employees feel working on your old, outdated platforms? Are they still up to code?

platform - front view new platform

Replace those aging, rusted, dangerous platforms with new solid units from Riggs.

Chutes and Hoppers

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hopper gray

Getting Your Materials from Point A to B!
Everyone’s Hoppers and Chutes are a bit unique. They have to fit back in place just right. Getting that fit correct is something we know at Riggs.

Y hopper orange chute

A new custom replacement for a worn out unit or a rebuilt will fit like a glove. Access doors, cleanouts and manways back where they need to be.

open hopper custom hatch door

You’ll be happy you chose Riggs.

hopper 2A

Specialty Blinds – Target Blind

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Used during testing and turnarounds, the Target Blind is another example of the specialty blinds Riggs custom designs.

There’s a reason companies choose Riggs for their custom blind work. With other places, if it’s not on the shelf, they just can’t help you. That’s not how we work.

This Target Blind is the perfect example of that. From Spectacle Blinds with machined finishes to Double Bleeders with welded valves. “Not on the shelf” is never an excuse at Riggs.