Silo Cleaning Services

A clean silo maximizes storage efficiency. In a silo, material is fed through the top and removed from the bottom. The free movement of the stored materials ensures that the oldest material is used first and does not contaminate newer, fresher material.

In some storage silos, all that is needed for a fire or explosion are a sufficient fuel source, oxygen, and heat or spark. Grain dusts, cotton lint, and many other organic materials are flammable. Under certain conditions, they present explosion hazards. In other storage silos, flammable materials of all types may be present.

Silo Cleaning Georgia

Manual cleaning, by lowering a worker on a rope to free material, is the simplest way to clean silos. However, manual cleaning is dangerous due to the release of material, the possible lack of oxygen, the presence of gases such as nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO). A worker inside a silo could face the gaseous products of microbial decomposition including methane (CH4), ammonia (NH3), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Dusts, molds, and toxins (aflatoxin, mycotoxin, endotoxin, etc.) can cause illness or acute respiratory infections.

Regardless of the silo, special precautions should be taken. Because of their confined space silo cleaning requires specific protocols for entry. We are OSHA Confined Space certified which means we have the skills, training, and safety equipment to go where others can’t. Our associates are all 10-hour OSHA certified.

Blackwells Inc. offers silo cleaning service in Georgia and throughout the southeastern United States.

Contact Us for more information about Silo Cleaning in Georgia and throughout the Southeastern United States.

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