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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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Power Move: Transformer Lift and Staging Rises to the Occasion
Posted: 01/25/2021
In support of a power plant project in the Northeast, Deep South crews were tasked with transporting and staging four transformers, each 22’ high, 12’ wide and 14’ long and weighing 314,000 pounds.
Safety Source: Don’t Fuel the Fire by The American Burn Association
Posted: 01/19/2021
Looking for a safety topic to begin your upcoming meeting? Read on for helpful information from The American Burn Association regarding working with or around gasoline as well as a reminder of Burn Awareness Week, which will be hosted February 7-13, 2021.
Custom Connections Deliver Heavy Systems Safely, Timely, and Cost Effectively
Posted: 01/12/2021
Deep South has put its transport and skills to work for a heavy industrial project in the Southwest that required Deep South to direct discharge from ships gear to barge, haul and sett a cold box, depropanizer and six modules.
15 Module Lift and Transport
Posted: 01/08/2021
Deep South was contracted by a Gulf Coast refinery to transport fifteen modules from a fabrication shop in Port Allen, LA to the site in Norco, LA.
New VersaCrane TC-36000/S2 makes lifting debut - AC&T Feature
Posted: 10/27/2020
For more than 50 years, Deep South Crane & Rigging has been distinguishing itself throughout North America. Founder Camile Landry has an intense appreciation for cranes, and he has always been intrigued by projects that require a higher level of skill and expertise. In the 1980s, he saw a need for a new generation of cranes. He envisioned a high-capacity crane with a smaller footprint and a tighter tail swing. He wanted to see a crane that could be transported easier than other heavy lift cranes.
What's Your Why Art Contest
Posted: 10/26/2020
Our Deep South family is not defined by just those that physically come to work every day. It includes daughters, sons, nieces, nephews, wives, husbands, and grandchildren – all of which play an important part of why we come to work each day and stay safe.
To include these extensions of our “family,” Deep South is hosting an art contest for the children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews of Deep South employees who are ages 3 – 18.
Deep South Wins GBRIA's 2020 Craft Workforce Development and Safety Excellence Awards
Posted: 10/21/2020
The Greater Baton Rouge Industry Alliance (GBRIA) recently honored Deep South Crane & Rigging with their 2020 Craft Workforce Development Best of Division I Award and their 2020 Safety Excellence Award for Division II.
