A few years ago a large municipality had workers in a trench without protection and an Aluminum Trench Shield on site.  OSHA caught them and since they had trench shoring but didn’t use it, they got a willful violation and cost them over $150,000 in fines.  The unnamed Municipality decided to buy mod  series shoring for each of their crews.  Our dealer decided to make a bad situation a little better for both and offered a package deal to the municipality.  He offered the shoring, a small trailer and a job box that they could bolt to the trailer.  They could keep their pins, keepers, slings etc. together and locked when not in use.  The unnamed municipality loved the idea and bought several.  That is thinking outside the “box”.

Despite the current challenges to the economy, Pro-Tec’s Mod Series (Modular Aluminum Trench Shields) have never been more in demand than now.  Even when manufacturing for steel products slowed, we had a good backlog of aluminum orders, particularly Mod Series.

Pro-Tec’s rental division has struggled to keep up with the demand.  We have always had a consistent need for rentals involving spot repairs seem to have evolved into large, multiple shield orders. Read the rest of this entry »