Periodic inspection of slings, hardware and below-the-hook equipment to ASME B30.9 and OSHA 1910.184, at your site, anywhere in the country, or in our Hatfield shop. A written record for every piece, a tag an auditor can read, and a straight answer on anything that fails.
An inspection is only worth what it leaves behind. OSHA doesn't ask whether someone looked at your slings. It asks to see the record.
Three levels, and only one of them creates paperwork. Two of them are yours to do, not ours, and it is worth knowing which is which.
Each day or shift a sling is used, by the user or another competent person you designate. No record required. This one is on you, and it's the one OSHA cites most.
Annually in normal service. Monthly to quarterly in severe service. For special service, as a qualified person determines. Written record required. This is the one we do and document.
Every new, altered, modified or repaired sling before it goes into use. Anything we repair gets this before it goes back to you.
Most plants assume normal service and are wrong about at least part of their inventory. Severe service means the rigging sees heavy use, abrasive or corrosive conditions, extreme temperatures, or loads near its rated capacity. A foundry, a scrap operation or a marine yard is rarely running normal service, whatever the binder says. If you're not sure, that's a conversation worth having before the interval matters.
The sling guide sets out the removal criteria we inspect against, by sling type, if you want to see exactly what we're looking for.
We come to you, work through your rigging where it lives, and tag as we go. Most customers pick a slow shift or a shutdown so nothing is in use while we work. You get the records before we leave or shortly after, depending on volume.
Send it to Hatfield and we'll inspect, tag and return it. This suits customers who can pull rigging out of service in batches, and it's usually the faster route when a lot of items need repair, because anything that fails is already where it needs to be.
Everywhere. We are based in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, and we inspect on site across the country: California, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, and up and down the mid-Atlantic. If you have rigging in more than one facility, a single inspector covering several sites on one trip is usually cheaper than sourcing a local vendor at each.
Billed hourly, per inspector. No minimum job size. One inspector gets through roughly 80 to 100 pieces a day, so a plant with four hundred pieces of rigging is about a week of one person’s time, or less with more inspectors on site.
If you can count your rigging, you can estimate the scope yourself before you call us, and we will quote the rate against that count.
Turnaround depends on where the schedule sits when you call, and it moves. Rather than publish a number that’s wrong half the year: call, tell us what you have and where, and we’ll give you a real date on the phone.
However you want them. Paper for the binder on the wall, PDF for the file share, a spreadsheet you can sort and filter, or all three. Plenty of customers want the paper copy on site and the spreadsheet for whoever tracks compliance. That’s no trouble.
Everybody's page stops at "we inspect." This is the part customers actually ask about, so here it is.
Some proportion of your rigging will fail inspection. That's the point of doing it. What matters is what happens next, and you have three outcomes:
Nelson Wire Rope holds AWRF Accreditation, awarded only after an independent third-party audit conducted by the Lifting Equipment Engineers Association (LEEA), the global standards body for the lifting industry. The audit examines fabrication processes, inspection practices, technical training and documented quality management. It is a voluntary standard held by a select group of fabricators, and we pursued it for a straightforward reason: a company that inspects other people's rigging should be able to document its own.
Every inspection is carried out by a Nelson Wire Rope inspector trained to ASME B30.9 and OSHA 1910.184 criteria, both in our facility and in the field. We do not subcontract inspection work. Our inspectors are trained in the same shop that fabricates and proof tests the equipment they evaluate.
We are a fabricator first. Wire rope and chain slings have been built and proof tested in our Hatfield shop since 1979. The inspector assessing your rigging has built the same assemblies himself, and that manufacturing knowledge informs an inspection in a way a checklist alone cannot.
A report listing condemned rigging with no path forward leaves the problem with you. Because fabrication and repair happen in the same building, equipment removed from service during an inspection can be repaired, proof tested, re-tagged and returned without a second vendor, a second lead time or a second purchase order.
Tell us roughly what you have and where you are, and we'll tell you what it takes.
Inspection intervals, record requirements and removal criteria on this page follow ASME B30.9 Slings and OSHA 29 CFR 1910.184. On-site inspection nationwide from Hatfield, Pennsylvania. Rate and throughput figures current as of 2026.