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The Fiberglass Manhole Cover Safety Solution sm
The World of Manhole covers is changing all at once. The realization has suddenly come to the fore that there is a new safer cover available. It will save municipalities hundreds of thousands of dollars on a cumulative basis across the country. This new stronger safer cover will not be stolen for scrap and leave a municipality open to a law suit from an open manhole hole on a high traffic street. It will not strain the back of a worker, worse yet injure or remove fingers. It will not cause a rotary cuff injury that will cost the municipality lost hours of work, workers compensation, and insurance premiums that rise as a result, as it did in a Waste Water Treatment Plant in Cincinnati this past month. The frantic Heath and Safety Director for a very large municipal Waste Water Treatment Plant operations conglomerate. "This is now a health and safety issue, it is about a safe work environment", he said. "I want all the manhole covers throughout our system and this treatment plant replaced with your fiberglass manhole covers."
That reaction is happening every day for various applications. In one application it was a prison that I was called about. The Director of Maintenance called to say he needs to change the cover from Iron to light weight fiberglass. The fiberglass cover can weigh as little as 25 lbs where an iron one is as much as 250 lbs. Large maintenance vehicles have designed just to remove covers.
The Solution for the Manhole cover change to fiberglass can be found at one company in the United States. VPC Fiberglass offers the best solution for every application and they will ask the questions so you can have the best solution for your application. Dan Bryndle is an expert in fiberglass manhole cover consulting. He has provided an application for use at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, VA and for the United States Bureau of Reclamation in Denver, Colorado.
The fiberglass manhole cover solution is not one cover fits all. There is a domed cover that Dan custom designed for a Ski Slop in Western Pennsylvania. In that instance he also designed a fiberglass manhole adaptor system sm to fit over the existing manhole, bring it to grade, and make it easily accessible with the very light weight chained and lockable cover. The customer was so happy they sent photos of the finished job at the ski slope.
Every solution to your needs can be supplied by VPC Fiberglass and they offer municipalities and government agencies special government discounts on the fiberglass manhole covers. The reason one application does not fit every need is because of the cost of the cover and the specific need at the manhole. The savings can be significant and an unsuspecting end user would have not understanding of this issue. For example one user said they will be taking the cover off three times a day. They did not need a locking device as the manhole is in a protected area. They needed a handle that was in the center of the manhole cover and very easy to remove the cover. There was no possibility that anyone would walk on the manhole cover so light weight features are the most important. And finally, we need it to be exactly one inch thick. The engineers at VPC Fiberglass drew it to their custom specifications and production started the day the engineer's drawings were approved. A fiberglass manhole cover expert that understands the complexity and diversity of need is available to you and your organization or municipality or college at VPC Fiberglass. If you would like to understand the best cover for your needs call Dan Bryndle, the expert you know through this short article.
