Mining Facility Guardrail Project in Rico, Colorado

Galvanized Safety Guardrails for a Colorado Mining Facility

FCP partnered with Arnold Machinery Company (AMC) on a custom Mining Facility Guardrail Project in Rico, Colorado, fabricating galvanized steel guardrails. Built from customer-supplied engineered drawings, the guardrails provide safety for personnel and also help protect local wildlife from accidentally falling into open basins and troughs.

Industry

Mining

Client

Arnold Machinery Company

Location

Rico, Colorado

Project Background – Mining Facility Guardrail Project

Galvanized Guardrails, Crossover Stairs & Catwalks for a Colorado Mining Facility

FCP partnered with Arnold Machinery Company (AMC) on a custom Mining Facility Guardrail Project in Rico, Colorado, providing galvanized steel guardrails for the facility’s mining processing area.

Designed around the customer’s engineered drawings, the guardrails were fabricated in FCP’s California manufacturing facility and delivered to the client’s job site in Colorado. The guardrails provided safety around the facility’s process equipment and open areas. The guardrails also served another important purpose—helping prevent local wildlife from accidentally falling into the open process basins and troughs.

With a tight project deadline and little room for dimensional error, close coordination between AMC, FCP, and the customer was essential. FCP completed the project within the required timeframe, delivering a precision-fabricated system that fit as intended and provided the durability and finished appearance expected for a demanding outdoor mining environment.

Project Details

Custom Engineering Per Client’s Drawings
ConnectRite™ Framing System
Safety Guardrails – Featuring Gatorshield® Galvanized Tubing

The Challenge: Safe Access Around a Mining Operation

Mining and industrial facilities often contain process equipment, open basins, piping, elevation changes, and restricted areas that require carefully planned access and protective barriers.

For this Mining Facility Guardrail Project, the customer needed a custom galvanized steel system that would provide safety around the mining operation. Guardrails were required around exposed areas. The guardrails had an additional purpose unique to the facility’s mountain environment. Along with providing protective barriers for personnel, the system was designed to help prevent local wildlife from accidentally entering or falling into the open process areas.

Dimensional accuracy was critical. The fabricated steel components had to interface with the customer’s existing structures and equipment based on supplied engineered drawings. Adding to the complexity, the customer was working under a tight deadline.

The Solution: Custom Engineered Galvanized Guardrails

Working from the customer’s engineered drawings, FCP manufactured an integrated system incorporating galvanized guardrails. Rather than approaching the project as a collection of unrelated steel components, the system was fabricated to work with the client’s existing steel structures.

Galvanized Steel Guardrails

Custom steel guardrails created protective barriers around the process areas and perimeter surfaces.

The guardrail system helped define designated access areas for personnel while also providing a physical barrier intended to help prevent wildlife from accidentally entering the open process areas.

The galvanized finish provides corrosion protection for the steel, an important consideration for a system exposed to the outdoor conditions of the Colorado mountains.

Precision Fabrication That Fit in the Field

A custom steel system can look right on a drawing, but one of the true measures of successful fabrication is what happens when the finished components arrive at the project site. FCP manufactured the guardrails from the customer’s engineered drawings, requiring them to interface correctly when delivered to the mining facility.

According to Arnold Machinery Company’s Jon Danos, FCP delivered a finished product that “actually fit, and is cosmetically appealing.”

Accurate fabrication can help minimize field modifications, installation complications, and unnecessary delays—especially important when a project is already operating against a demanding schedule.

Galvanized Steel for Colorado’s Outdoor Environment

The project’s location created another important consideration: long-term exposure to the elements. Rico sits in the Colorado mountains, making outdoor steel components subject to changing temperatures, precipitation, snow, and moisture. Galvanizing provides a protective zinc coating that helps protect fabricated steel against corrosion and extend its service life in outdoor environments.

For this project, the galvanized finish provided corrosion protection while also giving the guardrails a consistent, professional appearance. The result was a guardrail system designed around both the facility’s operational requirements and the demanding environment in which it would be used.

Meeting a Tight Mining Project Schedule

Technical complexity wasn’t the only challenge. The customer needed the Mining Facility Guardrail Project completed within a tight timeframe.

According to AMC, FCP accommodated the required schedule and met the deadline without issue. Close communication among FCP, Arnold Machinery Company, and the customer helped keep the detailed project coordinated through fabrication and delivery.

The result was a functioning turnkey solution delivered on the schedule the customer needed.

Arnold Machinery Company Testimonial
Arnold Machinery Company (AMC) recently collaborated with FCP to provide a mining facility in Rico, CO, with a guardrail solution. This project was extremely detailed and required close coordination between all parties involved. FCP exceeded expectations and was pivotal in ensuring successful implementation of this project.

Our customer had a tight deadline, which FCP met without issue. FCP is offering high-quality solutions at competitive prices. Ben Jurca at FCP is a pleasure to work with; their team is organized, clear, and efficient. With the close partnership between AMC & FCP, we were able to provide a functioning turnkey solution and create a happy customer.

AMC provided guardrails for filled troughs to prevent local wildlife from falling in. They needed this project completed in a tight timeframe, which FCP accommodated. We designed the system based on the customer’s engineered drawings, and delivered a finished product that actually fit and is cosmetically appealing. The guardrail was also galvanized to prevent rust and stand the test of time.

Thanks to FCP for making such awesome products and this project a reality.”
Jon Danos
Arnold Machinery Company (AMC)

A Thank You From FCP

FCP would like to thank Jon Danos and the entire Arnold Machinery Company team for trusting us to help bring this unique Colorado mining project to life.

Successful custom steel projects require more than quality fabrication. They depend on communication, coordination, attention to detail, and strong working relationships between everyone involved.

We’re proud to have worked alongside AMC to transform the customer’s engineered drawings into a finished guardrail safety system that met the project’s dimensional, scheduling, and environmental requirements.

Thank you to Arnold Machinery Company for the partnership and for choosing FCP.

Need Industrial Galvanized Guardrails?

From individual steel guardrail components to complete industrial access systems, FCP manufactures custom steel solutions for mining, manufacturing, processing, warehousing, distribution, and other demanding commercial and industrial facilities.

FCP capabilities include industrial guardrails, catwalks, crossover stairs, industrial stairs, bar-grating walkways, work platforms, equipment platforms, and complete mezzanine systems.

Whether your project begins with engineered drawings or an operational challenge that needs a custom solution, put more than four decades of FCP steel manufacturing experience to work on your next project.

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What was included in this Mining Facility Guardrail Project?

FCP manufactured galvanized steel guardrails for a mining facility in Rico, Colorado. The components were fabricated from customer-supplied engineered drawings as part of an integrated access system around the facility’s water treatment process area.

Why were the mining facility guardrails galvanized?

Galvanizing provides steel with a protective zinc coating that helps resist corrosion. It is well suited for many outdoor industrial applications where steel guardrails, stairs, and catwalks are exposed to moisture, precipitation, and changing weather conditions.

Can FCP manufacture custom guardrails from engineered drawings?

Yes. FCP can fabricate custom steel guardrails and related access components from project-specific drawings and specifications. This Colorado mining project was manufactured from the customer’s engineered drawings and required close coordination to achieve the required field fit.

Does FCP manufacture more than industrial guardrails?

Yes. FCP manufactures complete industrial access and space-utilization systems that can include guardrails, catwalks, crossover stairs, industrial stairs, bar-grating walkways, work platforms, equipment platforms, and steel mezzanines.

How do I get a proposal for an industrial guardrail or access project?

Send FCP your plans, drawings, specifications, or project requirements. The FCP team can review the application and develop a project proposal based on the required guardrails, stairs, catwalks, platforms, or other fabricated steel components.