Steel Repair & Heat Straightening
Bridge strikes, impact-damaged girders and bent beams and columns — heat straightening, damage evaluation and member replacement for DOTs, authorities and facility owners, often on an emergency call.
Request a QuoteBridge Strikes & Emergency Response
When an over-height load hits a girder, HSE responds the way we did for NYSDOT in Westchester County: an engineer and a crew lead dispatched together, a rapid-response make-safe plan, and heat straightening or member replacement scheduled into the owner’s closure windows. The same engineers and crews answer impact-damage calls inside warehouses and plants.
- Rapid response to bridge strikes and impact-damaged girders
- Heat straightening over live traffic — the member restored in place
- Make-safe shoring, then permanent repair
- Emergency calls from DOTs, authorities and facility owners
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HSE supports commercial warehouses, industrial plants, and facility owners with damaged steel evaluation and repair, including forklift strikes, truck impacts, loading dock damage, damaged beams, damaged columns, emergency steel repair, heat straightening, member replacement, and related rigging. No prime, no bid — the facility owner or manager calls HSE, and our engineers and crew respond.
- Owner-direct: one call, one contractor, one point of accountability
- Damage evaluation and repair design by licensed PEs
- Heat straightening, member repair and member replacement
- Work planned around the facility’s operations
Heat Straightening
A repair-focused alternative to member replacement. Controlled heating restores a buckled or bent beam or column in place — shorter lead time, lower cost and a faster return to service than cutting the member out.
- The damaged member restored in place
- Shorter lead time than fabricating a replacement
- Faster return to service for the facility
Forklift, Truck & Loading-Dock Impacts
The most common call: a column struck by a forklift, a dock canopy hit by a trailer, a beam bent by a load. HSE evaluates whether the member can be straightened or has to be replaced, then does the work while the building keeps operating.
- Forklift strikes, truck impacts and loading-dock damage
- Damaged beams and columns inside operating facilities
- Temporary shoring designed by our own engineers
Member Replacement & Rigging
When a member is beyond straightening, HSE removes and replaces it — shoring, rigging and the pick planned by in-house PEs, with fabrication and heavy haul available inside the High family when the owner wants one source.
- Shoring, removal and replacement under one contract
- Rigging and crane coordination inside and around occupied buildings
- Fabrication and heavy haul available within the High family
What Comes With the Crew
What a facility owner gets when they call HSE instead of a general contractor.
Heat Straightening
A repair-focused alternative to member replacement — the damaged member is restored in place, in an operating facility.
Licensed Professional Engineers
Damage evaluation, repair design and lift planning by our own PEs, licensed in ten states.
Emergency Response
Crews and engineering mobilised for red-flag and impact-damage calls, on bridges and inside buildings.
Part of the High Family
When a member has to be replaced, fabrication and heavy haul are available inside the High family — one call.
Can We Help?
Have a damaged beam, column or girder that needs to be evaluated, straightened or replaced?
Send the plans or piece schedule with the let or bid date, location and any staging or MOT constraints — a link to your plan room or ITB works.