Medical Equipment Movers & MRI Rigging

Medical equipment is an instrument, not freight

An MRI magnet runs anywhere from roughly 8,000 to more than 25,000 pounds, sits on a very small footprint, and has tight manufacturer limits on tilt and shock. A CT gantry is lighter but full of alignment you don't want to redo. None of it can be muscled down a corridor on a pallet jack, and all of it usually has to move through a building that's still seeing patients.

That's why MRI moves are planned backward from the room. We walk the path of travel with the facility and the OEM or third-party installer — doorway widths, corridor turns, elevator ratings, floor loading, where a wall opening or a crane pick makes more sense than the front door. Then we build the rigging plan, the schedule, and the protection plan around that, usually for nights or weekends.

On move day the crew rigs from the manufacturer's designated points, moves on skates and air-ride with shock and tilt indicators on the unit, and sets it in the shielded room for the installer to take over. If the system is leaving the building for another site, we manage it as project freight on climate-appropriate, air-ride partner equipment — same crew on both ends.

Access: doors, walls, roofs, and cranes

The hardest part of most MRI jobs isn't the weight — it's the route. Magnets are too heavy for many passenger elevators and too big for many doorways, so the plan often comes down to one of three paths.

Through the building

When doors, turns, and floors allow it, the magnet travels on skates over steel plate or floor protection, with the corridor closed only for the move window.

Through a wall or knockout panel

Many MRI suites are built with a removable exterior panel. We coordinate the opening with your contractor, rig through it, and hand the wall back.

By crane

Rooftop, upper-floor, and landlocked suites often mean a crane pick onto a platform or through an opening — lift plan, street closure, and setting all run as one job.