An MRI magnet is one of the heaviest single pieces a Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City metro.
Quick answer: Badass Logistics provides MRI & medical equipment rigging in Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City and nearby Utah 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 Salt Lake City'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 →
Salt Lake City's imaging work is anchored by its health systems — University of Utah Health, Intermountain Medical Center, Murray, and Intermountain Primary Children's 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.
Salt Lake City, UT runs on mining & industrial, 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 Salt Lake City replace equipment on a steady cycle. The equipment we rig for them includes:
The buildings set the route. Downtown towers, the University of Utah and Intermountain hospital campuses, and the new Salt Lake City International Airport terminal carry large central 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 Salt Lake City metro.
Gantries, tables, and cabinets moved and set for the install team across the Salt Lake City metro.
C-arms, ceiling mounts, and components handled as one sequenced job across the Salt Lake City metro.
Linac components rigged into vaults on planned routes across the Salt Lake City metro.
Plenty of Salt Lake City jobs start and finish on one floor. The rest have to travel — to a new building across the metro, a sister plant down I-15, I-80 and I-70, 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. University of Utah and University of Utah Research Park 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 Salt Lake City, UT 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 Salt Lake City jobs. For bigger moves we walk both sites before we price anything.
The same Salt Lake City crews handle every kind of industrial rigging. If your job looks more like one of these, start here:
Running a trucking fleet out of Salt Lake City? See truck dispatch for fleets of 4+ trucks.
Working throughout Salt Lake City, UT and the surrounding metro — backed by a nationwide network of 88 locations when a move crosses state lines.
MRI & Medical Equipment Rigging throughout Salt Lake City and the industrial suburbs around it — the towns below are where the plants, shops and distribution parks actually sit:
| Town | County | From downtown |
|---|---|---|
| West Valley City | Salt Lake County | 8 mi |
| Sandy | Salt Lake County | 12 mi |
| Ogden | Weber County | 32 mi |
| Provo | Utah County | 38 mi |
| Orem | Utah County | 34 mi |
| West Jordan | Salt Lake County | 11 mi |
| Layton | Davis County | 21 mi |
| Tooele | Tooele County | 27 mi |
| Lehi | Utah County | 26 mi |
| Clearfield | Davis County | 25 mi |
| South Jordan | Salt Lake County | 14 mi |
| Millcreek | Salt Lake County | 5 mi |
| Taylorsville | Salt Lake County | 7 mi |
| Murray | Salt Lake County | 7 mi |
| Draper | Salt Lake County | 16 mi |
| Bountiful | Davis County | 9 mi |
| Riverton | Salt Lake County | 17 mi |
| Pleasant Grove | Utah County | 29 mi |
| Roy | Weber County | 29 mi |
| Spanish Fork | Utah County | 46 mi |
| Kearns | Salt Lake County | 9 mi |
| Cottonwood Heights | Salt Lake County | 11 mi |
| Midvale | Salt Lake County | 10 mi |
| Springville | Utah County | 44 mi |
Moving across the metro or out of state? See all our Salt Lake City services or get a quote.
Most Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City crew.
Salt Lake City riggers →Presses, compressors, generators, full production lines — disconnected, rigged, hauled, and re-leveled across Salt Lake City as one accountable job.
Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City CNC movers →Moving the whole floor instead of one machine? Phased teardown, sequenced loads, and reinstallation planning for Salt Lake City plants.
plant relocation in Salt Lake City →In Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City.
The same Salt Lake City crew also handles millwright services, machinery removal, crane and rigging services, and machinery loading and unloading.
Specialty rigging in Salt Lake City: 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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