An MRI magnet is one of the heaviest single pieces a Detroit 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 Detroit metro.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides MRI & medical equipment rigging in Detroit, MI 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 Detroit and nearby Michigan 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 Detroit'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 →
Detroit's imaging work is anchored by its health systems — Henry Ford Health, Detroit Medical Center, and Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital — 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.
Detroit, MI runs on automotive stamping, tool-and-die, Tier-1/2 suppliers, 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 Detroit replace equipment on a steady cycle. The equipment we rig for them includes:
The buildings set the route. Downtown towers led by the Renaissance Center, three downtown casinos (MGM Grand, MotorCity, Hollywood at Greektown), the Henry Ford and DMC hospital campuses and DTW airport carry the big central plants, 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 Detroit metro.
Gantries, tables, and cabinets moved and set for the install team across the Detroit metro.
C-arms, ceiling mounts, and components handled as one sequenced job across the Detroit metro.
Linac components rigged into vaults on planned routes across the Detroit metro.
Plenty of Detroit jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-75, I-94 and I-96, 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. Wayne State University, GM Global Technical Center, and Ford Research & Engineering Center 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 Detroit, MI 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 Detroit jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Detroit crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Detroit? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Detroit, MI and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
MRI & Medical Equipment Rigging throughout Detroit and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| Warren | Macomb County | 11 mi |
| Dearborn | Wayne County | 7 mi |
| Livonia | Wayne County | 16 mi |
| Sterling Heights | Macomb County | 17 mi |
| Troy | Oakland County | 20 mi |
| Romulus | Wayne County | 20 mi |
| Taylor | Wayne County | 13 mi |
| Pontiac | Oakland County | 25 mi |
| Southfield | Oakland County | 13 mi |
| Flint | Genesee County | 57 mi |
| Ann Arbor | Washtenaw County | 36 mi |
| Clinton Township | Macomb County | 19 mi |
| Canton | Wayne County | 22 mi |
| Westland | Wayne County | 18 mi |
| Farmington Hills | Oakland County | 20 mi |
| Waterford | Oakland County | 31 mi |
| Shelby | Macomb County | 24 mi |
| Rochester Hills | Oakland County | 23 mi |
| West Bloomfield Township | Oakland County | 24 mi |
| Saint Clair Shores | Macomb County | 14 mi |
| Royal Oak | Oakland County | 12 mi |
| Novi | Oakland County | 24 mi |
| Dearborn Heights | Wayne County | 12 mi |
| Redford | Wayne County | 13 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Detroit services or get a quote.
Most Detroit 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 Detroit crew.
Detroit riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Detroit as one accountable job.
Detroit machinery moving company →Machine tools are instruments, not freight. VMCs, lathes, and grinders moved on air-ride and squared back to the builder's spec in Detroit.
Detroit CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Detroit plants.
plant relocation in Detroit →In Detroit 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 Detroit.
The same Detroit crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Detroit: heavy lift rigging, chiller and HVAC rigging, transformer and generator rigging, and lab equipment moving.
Tell us what's moving and where. We'll route the nearest crew and quote it fast.
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