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Precarious Conditions on the Dock
Posted: 05/13/2025
Rail-traveling ship loaders are a familiar sight on the Gulf Coast (and around the world)—and they are essential to the efficient loading of bulk materials. Disruption to the operation of these massive machines directly affects productivity and the bottom line, as represented by one company's experience when wind from a severe storm knocked the machine off its rails, leaving it dangerously close to the edge of the dock.
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Safety Source: Put These Safety Tips in Your Tailgate Playbook
Posted: 09/20/2017
Football season is back and that means the return of tailgating. Make sure you brush up on a few safety tips to make this tailgate season a safe one.
Deep South to Serve Warm Meals for Hurricane Harvey Relief
Posted: 09/06/2017
Deep South Crane will have teams in Mont Belvieu and Beaumont, Texas on Friday, September 8th and Saturday, September 9th for Deep South families, union employees, and first responders.
Safety Source: Above Average Hurricane Season Predicted
Posted: 08/24/2017
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season has already produced five tropical cyclones by the middle of July, a quick start for what is historically a slower time of the hurricane season. Now is the time to prepare should a storm head your way. Here are a few tips that can help you, your home, and your family stay safe.
Safety Starts With Planning - A Glimpse Into Our Roadmap to Safety
Posted: 07/26/2017
Looking through the lens of a 315,969-pound critical lift using the 1,000-ton VersaCrane CC-12000, Deep South highlights the importance of proper planning, good communication, and forming a partnership with clients to ensure safety on a jobsite.
Extreme Circumstances Call for Extreme Measures: A Narrow Canal Requires a Side Roll-Off
Posted: 07/13/2017
Deep South was contracted to deliver a 750,000-pound reactor to a refinery in northern Illinois. The navigable waterway, a highly-trafficked 125-foot wide canal, required a side roll-off.
15-Month Turnkey Transport and Erection Project at a Western Iowa Plant
Posted: 07/13/2017
Deep South was contracted to provide turnkey transportation and field erection services as part of a grassroots fertilizer project at a plant in Western Iowa. Over this 15-month period more than 150 pieces of plant equipment were successfully transported and erected.
Slow Ride: 330-Ton Reactor Makes Trek Through Riverbend to Refinery
Posted: 06/29/2017
The 90 foot-long, 24 foot-wide apparatus was secured to the platform of a self-propelled modular trailer and operated by Deep South Industrial Services to make the roughly five-hour trip from the Phoenix Terminal in Hartford to the refinery in Roxana.
