Heavy Equipment NDT: Cracks Don't
Announce Themselves

Structural inspection for cranes, booms, lifting gear and mining machines — field crews across Alberta.

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Heavy Equipment NDT & Structural Inspection

Heavy equipment fails by fatigue: thousands of load cycles working on welds and pins until a crack starts where nobody's looking. CIC provides NDT inspection for cranes, booms, lifting equipment, and mining and construction machinery across Alberta — finding cracks, corrosion and stress damage while they're still repairs instead of incidents.

Equipment We Inspect

  • Cranes and booms — lattice chords, welds, pins and sheave areas on mobile and overhead cranes

  • Lifting gear — hooks, spreader bars, lifting lugs and below-the-hook devices on recurring certification cycles

  • Mining and earthmoving equipment — shovel booms, dragline components, truck frames and attachment points

  • Construction machinery — structural weldments, outrigger assemblies and high-stress pivot details

The Methods Behind the Inspection

Fatigue cracks in equipment steel are exactly what MPI was born for; UT adds pin, shaft and section verification where the crack risk hides inside; LPI covers the non-magnetic components. Visual inspection by people who know where each machine class cracks ties it together — knowing where to look is half the service.

When to Call

  • Scheduled structural inspection cycles and insurer or owner-mandated certifications

  • After an overload, impact or derailment — before the machine goes back to work

  • Pre-purchase and end-of-season condition checks on high-value iron

  • Repair verification — confirming a weld repair actually restored the member

Frequently Asked Questions

How often should crane structures be NDT inspected?

Frequency follows the governing standard, the insurer and the duty cycle — annual structural NDT is a common baseline, with harsher duty earning shorter cycles and post-event inspections triggered immediately. We'll align the scope to the standard your certification runs under.

Can you inspect equipment without tearing it down?

Largely yes — MPI, UT and visual inspection work on assembled machines with access equipment, and we schedule around your utilization. Some scopes (pins out, boom sections down) do inspect better during planned teardowns; we'll tell you which honestly.