An MRI magnet is one of the heaviest single pieces a Boston hospital will ever bring through its doors — and it has to arrive without a scratch, inside a building that never closes. We plan the route, rig the magnet and its components, and set them for the OEM's install team across the Boston metro.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides MRI & medical equipment rigging in Boston, MA and the surrounding metro. We rig MRI magnets, CT, PET/CT, cath lab, and linac components into and out of hospitals and imaging centers — on planned routes, with tilt and shock monitoring, sequenced around the OEM's install team. Our crews work across Boston and nearby Massachusetts metros, and moves between facilities run as project freight under the same plan — usually quoted the same day. Call (307) 284-1332.
Imaging equipment does not move like freight. A magnet has strict tilt and shock limits, a CT gantry carries delicate rotating components, and the route runs through corridors, elevators, and floors that were built for patients. In Boston's hospitals and imaging centers, the move is also planned around infection control and a schedule that keeps clinical areas open.
Badass Logistics plans the route from the truck to the suite — rated elevator, wall or knockout opening, or a crane pick to an upper floor — and checks floor loading at every stage. Magnet ramp-down, cryogens, and calibration stay with the OEM; we rig and set what they hand us, with monitoring recorded throughout. How to move an MRI machine →
Boston's imaging work is anchored by its health systems — Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute — and by the outpatient imaging centers that ring them. Each of them replaces scanners on a cycle, and each replacement means a magnet out, a magnet in, and a suite that has to reopen on a date.
Boston, MA runs on manufacturing & port, and almost none of it stays put. Same crews and the same MRI and medical equipment rigging standards across the region:
Hospital imaging departments, outpatient imaging centers, and cancer centers across Boston replace equipment on a steady cycle. The equipment we rig for them includes:
The buildings set the route. Financial District towers, the Longwood Medical Area, Kendall Square lab buildings and Logan Airport carry heavy chiller and lab-exhaust plant, and an imaging suite in any of them can sit on an upper floor, in a basement, or behind a corridor that was never built for a magnet.
Magnets rigged in, out, and between suites with tilt and shock monitoring across the Boston metro.
Gantries, tables, and cabinets moved and set for the install team across the Boston metro.
C-arms, ceiling mounts, and components handled as one sequenced job across the Boston metro.
Linac components rigged into vaults on planned routes across the Boston metro.
Plenty of Boston jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-90, I-95 and I-93, or a facility in another state. We don't hand that part off. It runs as project freight inside the same plan: machines crated or prepped on site, loads sequenced to the rig-out, transport through our licensed broker and carrier partners with dedicated capacity for bigger moves, and our crew waiting at the destination to set it.
Research imaging adds a second kind of job. MIT, Harvard University, and Kendall Square biotech cluster run scanners and instruments outside the clinical schedule, often in older research buildings where the route has to be engineered around floors that were never rated for a magnet.
Every MRI & medical equipment rigging job in Boston, MA is quoted from the actual work, not a rate sheet. These are the things that move the number — send them with your request and you'll get a real quote back fast:
Photos of the equipment, its nameplate, and the path out of the building save a site visit on smaller Boston jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Boston crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Boston? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Boston, MA and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
MRI & Medical Equipment Rigging throughout Boston and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Cambridge | Middlesex County | 3 mi |
| Quincy | Norfolk County | 8 mi |
| Worcester | Worcester County | 39 mi |
| Lowell | Middlesex County | 23 mi |
| Framingham | Middlesex County | 19 mi |
| Braintree | Norfolk County | 11 mi |
| Woburn | Middlesex County | 10 mi |
| Everett | Middlesex County | 4 mi |
| Chelsea | Suffolk County | 3 mi |
| Waltham | Middlesex County | 9 mi |
| Providence, RI | Providence County | 41 mi |
| Manchester, NH | Hillsborough County | 48 mi |
| Dorchester | Suffolk County | 4 mi |
| Brockton | Plymouth County | 19 mi |
| Fall River | Bristol County | 46 mi |
| Lynn | Essex County | 9 mi |
| Newton | Middlesex County | 8 mi |
| Nashua, NH | Hillsborough County | 35 mi |
| Warwick, RI | Kent County | 49 mi |
| Cranston, RI | Providence County | 44 mi |
| Somerville | Middlesex County | 3 mi |
| Lawrence | Essex County | 25 mi |
| Pawtucket, RI | Providence County | 37 mi |
| Framingham Center | Middlesex County | 20 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Boston services or get a quote.
Most Boston jobs don't stop at one service. The crew that rigs a machine out is the crew that manages the move and sets it back down — so you're dealing with one company from the disconnect to the re-level, not three subcontractors pointing at each other.
Machine has to come off the floor, through the door, or onto a pad before it travels? That's the rigging side of the same Boston crew.
Boston industrial rigging →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Boston as one accountable job.
Boston machinery movers →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Boston.
Boston CNC machine moving →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Boston plants.
factory relocation in Boston →In Boston we also run riggers, machinery movers, CNC movers, and plant relocation, plus project freight for the jobs we rig — or see every service we offer in Boston.
The same Boston crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Boston: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, and printing press moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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