Bernadine Givens
President
Signs every scope and every handback. Calls the plant manager herself when a window changes.
Industrial coatings, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Steel coated inside your shutdown window.
Red Fork Industrial Coatings blasts, primes and coats structural steel, tanks, piping and plant floors for Oklahoma facilities. A forty-person crew, a written safety plan before mobilization, and a handback binder at the end.
Start with what you need
Safety record
The figures a prequalification form asks for
Every contractor-safety portal wants the same few numbers. Ours are here, with the letters and logs behind them in the safety file.
0.82
Experience modification rateCurrent policy year
1.1
Total recordable incident rateThree-year average
0
Lost-time casesLast full year
Every shift
Toolbox talk and sign-inBefore anyone climbs or sprays
Sample figures.
Shutdown windows
Book the window before it opens
Most outages in our area cluster in spring and fall. Coatings have limits of their own: surface temperature, dew point and wind. This is the year from the crew's side.
Spring outage season
Refinery, terminal and plant turnarounds. Walk-downs happen the fall before, so crew and abrasive are held for you.
Mar to May
Fall outage season
The second run of turnarounds, and the last good stretch for exterior steel before the cold.
Sep to Nov
Summer: nights and shade
Steel in July sun is too hot to coat. We move to night shifts, work the shaded faces and read surface temperature on a gauge.
Jun to Aug
Winter: heat and enclosures
Below the product's limits we heat an enclosure or move to interior steel, floors and containment.
Dec to Feb
Weekend and short outages
A line down for two days still gets a written plan. Tell us the hours and we'll tell you what fits.
all year
What we coat
Three kinds of work, one crew
Prep and coating stay with the same people, so the crew that blasts the steel is the crew that primes it.
Structural steel
Columns, beams, trusses and bridge girders, from surface prep to finish coat.
Steel and bridges
Tanks and piping
Tank shells and roofs, pipe racks, supports and skids, with interiors scoped to the lining spec.
Tanks and piping
Plant interiors
Columns, walls, ceilings and floor striping in warehouses, garages and process buildings.
Plant interiors
How a window runs
From walk-down to handback
Five steps, the same on a tank and on a plant-wide turnaround.
- 01Weeks before
Step 1: Walk-down
We stand on the steel with your maintenance lead: access, coating condition, hot work rules and where the lift can go. Old coatings are sampled before we disturb them.
- 02Before mobilization
Step 2: Written scope and schedule
A plan sized to your window: prep grade, the coating system from your spec, shifts, crew size and hold points your inspector can attend.
- 03Day zero
Step 3: Orientation and permits
The crew badges in, sits through your orientation and signs your permits. The rescue plan is posted at the access point.
- 04Every shift
Step 4: Work the window
Containment, prep, prime and coats inside the recoat times, with film readings logged every shift.
- 05Last shift
Step 5: Handback
We walk the punch list with you, clear the abrasive and hand over the daily logs, readings and data sheets in one binder.
Credentials
On file before the first shift
What a facility asks a contractor for, in one place.
Registration
Registered business entityVerify
OK Filing # 000000 · Oklahoma Secretary of State
The firm is registered to do business in Oklahoma. The state doesn't issue a painting-contractor license.
Lead-Safe Certified Firm (RRP)Verify
US Firm # 000000 · U.S. EPA
The federal rule for paid work that disturbs paint in homes and child-occupied buildings built before 1978.
Insurance
General liability insurance
Your facility is named as certificate holder before we mobilize.
Workers' compensation coverage
Covers the crew on your site. The certificate comes with the safety file.
Who runs your job
Five people you can call by name
Each one answers for a part of the work, from the scope to the last film reading.
Hemant Mehrotra
Estimator and project manager
Walks the steel, writes the scope and schedule, and keeps the crew count honest to the window.
Rosaura Nieto
Safety director
Writes the site plan, runs orientation and has stop-work authority on every job.
Ardell Youngbird
Field superintendent
On the steel every shift, with the crew leads, the lift and the weather.
Obinna Nwosu
Quality control
Film readings, hold points and the daily log that goes in your binder.
From the maintenance office
“The plan came before I asked for it: scope, shifts, who was on the crew. The tank shell came back with the readings in a binder.”
Gus P.Maintenance planner, bulk terminal
“They worked around our wash-down schedule and never left abrasive in the process area.”
Wilbur T.Plant engineer, food plant
“Orientation took twenty minutes, and every person on the steel had done it.”
Ansel R.Maintenance supervisor, water plant
Sample reviews.
Where the crew goes
Tulsa and the plants around it
Type a ZIP to see whether a crew can reach your site.
- Tulsa County: Tulsa, Sperry · Plants, warehouses and yards along the river corridor
- Rogers County: Catoosa, Claremore, Verdigris, Inola, Oologah · Port-area terminals and the Claremore plants
- Osage County: Skiatook, Hominy · Yards and pipeline stations
- Wagoner County: Wagoner, Porter · Plants and distribution buildings
- Creek County: Bristow, Kellyville, Mannford, Drumright · Pipeline and processing yards
- Mayes County: Pryor, Chouteau · The industrial park at Pryor
- Payne County: Cushing · Tank farms
We don't take jobs more than about two hours' drive from Tulsa without pricing travel and lodging into the scope, and we don't enter a confined space without your permit system and rescue plan.
Questions facility managers ask
How much notice do you need for a shutdown?
For a plant-wide turnaround, eight weeks ahead is a comfortable start, because crew and abrasive are booked against the window. For one tank or one bay, two or three weeks can work. Call with the dates and we'll tell you what fits.
What do you need from us before mobilization?
Your orientation schedule, the permits for the work (hot work, confined space, lockout), a laydown area, power and water, and a named contact on each shift. We send a checklist with the written scope.
What about old coatings that may contain lead?
Older coatings on steel can contain lead, chromium and other metals. We sample before we disturb anything. The result decides containment, air monitoring and waste handling, and all three are written into the scope.
Do you paint buildings built before 1978?
Most of our work is industrial and commercial. Where paid work disturbs paint in a home or a child-occupied building such as a school or daycare built before 1978, a federal rule applies. The firm's EPA certification number is listed under Credentials; ask for it before any work starts.
What happens when weather closes the window?
Wind, rain and a surface close to the dew point stop spraying. The schedule carries weather days, and we tell you the same day what slipped and what we'll do about it.
How do I get a price?
We price from the scope: area or tonnage, prep grade, coat count, access, shifts and the hours in your window. A walk-down comes first, and the written price follows it.
Start here
Send us the scope
Two short steps. We reply with a walk-down date, or ask for drawings first.
Phone(918) 555-0101
Hours
- Monday – FridayToday
- 6 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Outage shifts run days or nights, as scoped.
Shutdown desk, while a crew is on your site(918) 555-0102