How to Mitigate Key Safety Risks: Building Demolition of Mines, Oil & Gas Facilities

Some careers are much riskier than others: stuntman, rodeo, volcano tour guide. Unfortunately, that list of high-risk careers also includes almost every job related to the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas industry. In 2021, the fatal injury rate for the mining industry overall was 14.2 per 100,000 full-time workers. [...]

The Valuable Metals & Materials That Can Be Recovered From Your Mine, Refinery or Power Plant

If you’re an archaeologist, you get to jump into tombs and find forgotten treasures. If you’re a geologist, you get to break open geodes and uncover hidden gems.  And if you’re Richmond Steel, you get to salvage buildings and recover valuable metals. (We don’t always feel like Indiana Jones, but [...]

Lead Paint Removal: Our Hazardous Waste Disposal & Abatement Process During Demolition

If you lived in the 1800’s, there’s a good chance your bedroom wallpaper would have contained arsenic. Those toxic ink particles and vapors would lazily float through the air, and slowly accumulate inside your body. It wouldn’t have been long before you joined the growing list of mysterious illnesses being [...]

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