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Thermal infrared (IR) drones detect a customer’s water leak in a buried 24″ line. The drone is equipped with thermal imaging sensors that can detect temperature variations. Flying the drone over the suspected area captures thermal images that reveal potential water leaks through temperature anomalies. This non-intrusive method allows for rapid identification of leaks, even when not visually apparent. The thermal IR drone provides a highly accurate and efficient solution, enabling timely repairs to prevent further damage and water loss.

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Justin Morell, Health, Safety and Environmental Manager

James Lunden, CEO and Member-Manager of Mon Valley Integration LLC (MVI) headquartered in Morgantown, W.Va., is pleased to announce the appointment of Justin Morell as the Health, Safety and Environmental Manager. MVI is a leading electrical engineering and construction firm that serves the energy, manufacturing, and utility sectors in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, Kentucky and Illinois.

“Justin has the perfect balance of education and relevant real world experience. This hire is proof of MVI’s ongoing commitment to provide a safe and healthy workplace for our employees,” said Lunden. “I am certain that all of our customers and business associates will benefit greatly by his presence.”

Morell began his career as safety supervisor with the Alpha Natural Resources Cumberland and Emerald Mines. He was responsible for the safe operation of two highly productive and mechanized mining operations, regulatory agency compliance, and management of their health and safety programs.

Morell earned the Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from West Virginia University’s (WVU) College of Business and Economics in 2009. He continued his education and earned the Master of Science in safety management from the WVU Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources in 2012 with Summa Cum Laude recognition.

Certificate-of-Appreciation

In an effort to give back to the community, Mon Valley Integration has once again made a donation to St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures and prevention of pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. No child is ever denied treatment based on race, religion or a family’s ability to pay. Families of patients never receive a bill because all a family should worry about is caring for their child.

Since being founded in 1962, St. Jude has been on the cutting edge of pediatric catastrophic disease research. Medical breakthroughs made at St. Jude are openly shared with hospitals and researchers worldwide, so that all children and their families may have hope. From the beginning, St. Jude has been developing treatments that have contributed to changing the overall survival rate for children with life threatening diseases, including growing the overall survival rate for children with cancer from 20 percent to more than 80 percent.

The majority of funding for St Jude is received from charitable donations by individuals, allowing the medical staff to focus on what matters most, that is saving the lives of children. MVI is happy to continue its years of support for St. Jude in their mission to save the lives of our most precious resource, children.

In our continuing commitment to safety, Mon Valley Integration employees are undergoing SafelandUSA training. The goals of this training are to ensure knowledge of possible hazards and to increase awareness of potential dangers while working at the oil and gas operations.

Through the West Virginia University Safety and Health Extension; Jeremy Cole became a qualified SafeLandUSA instructor and has now conducted two training classes for the MVI team. The program includes a comprehensive eight hour course, along with an exam. Upon successful completion of the course, each student receives a photo identification card featuring the SafeLandUSA logo.

For more information on SafelandUSA visit:
http://safelandusa.org/index.html

Two MVI employees have recently achieved recognition by the West Virginia State Fire Marshall as Journeyman Electricians. By passing the examination, Keith Kincaid and Brian Shelosky will be able to perform qualified electrical work in many of the facilities that MVI currently services (Brian has already passed the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s electrical exam, certifying him to work on Mine Property as well).

Keith Kincaid runs MVI’s panel shop, and was hired not long after the company’s inception. He continues to increase his knowledge and skill in order to run his portion of the facility more safely and effectively.
Brian Shelosky has been employed with MVI for 5 years. Brian has become a valuable member of the maintenance department. He also continues to improve his skills in the areas of fiber optic installation and testing.
MVI is constantly encouraging and assisting its employees to increase their levels of training and certifications. This greatly benefits customers by having only trained and qualified workers on your property.
Congratulations Keith and Brian!

This past week, Mon Valley Integration held its annual Electrical Re-Training course for all qualified persons within the company at the Waterfront Place Hotel in the Wharf District of Morgantown, WV. This training is required by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Part 75 for surface, and Part 77 for underground. Both of these regulations state that “An individual qualified in accordance with this section shall, in order to retain qualification, certify annually to the District Manager, that he has satisfactorily completed a coal mine electrical retraining program approved by the Secretary.” Dr. David Podobinski, P.E., Director of Engineering at MVI, was the instructor for the course. He lectured on low, medium, and high voltage topics, along with safety and accident prevention. An always sobering review of fatalgrams took place, as well as a question and answer group discussion on a variety of topics, including safety ground fields. MVI would like to thank Dave for putting on such a great training session, and the Waterfront staff for being wonderful hosts all day.

 

As required by Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) Part 48, Mon Valley Integration held it’s annual underground refresher training this past week at the Dolls run Training Center near Morgantown, WV. Per MSHA regulations, many aspects of safety and health were reviewed during classroom sessions: fatalities and preventative measures, mine mapping, transportation safety, ventilation, emergency evacuation and firefighting plans, first aid, electrical hazards, self-rescue and respiratory devices, explosives, mine gases, and health issues such as dust, noise, and control plans.
After the morning classroom session, the employees were split into two groups, with one being walked through hands on first aid training, while the other was lead into a simulation mine that is on-site at Dolls Run. The mining simulation takes students into and underground environment that has an air intake, air return, and belt-line, along with several cross cuts. Our employees took part in a simulated underground work day, where they traveled into the mine together before being split into three different groups to work at various areas. They were then subjected to smoke made from vegetable oil to simulate a mine fire. As if everyone were in an actual mine fire, they proceeded to don their self-contained self-rescuers (SCSR). They then had to work together to locate and SCSR cash in order to transfer from their smaller personal rescuers to a larger one meant to last them until they exited the mine safely. After completing this task, they proceeded to attempt an exit from the mine. Unlike last years exercise, this years was designed to simulate a condition in which the miners would not be able to exit the mine safely, and they were forced to find a rescue shelter.
The groups switched class areas after this, in order for everyone to get hands on training in the mine and with the first aid dummy. The day concluded with a question and answer session.
As always, MVI would like to thank Joe Spiker and the rest of the instructors at Dolls Run for putting on a a great course that left all of our employees better prepared to be able to react quickly in case of an emergency. Also, thanks goes to Robert and CED Blueridge Electric Supply for providing lunch on site.

 

Two MVI employees have recently achieved recognition by the West Virginia Department of Miner’s Health Safety and Training (WVMHST) as Certified Electrician for Low, Medium, and High Voltage circuits. By passing the West Virginia examination, they will automatically receive recognition by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) as a “Qualified Person” for Surface and Underground electrical installations. The two newly qualified individuals are Tristan Rosier and Brian Shelosky.

Tristan Rosier has been employed by MVI for 4 years. He has quickly increased his skill set to where he is now performing project engineering and PLC programming and HMI work.

Brian Shelosky has been employed for 3 years. Brian has become a valuable worker in our panel shop and out in the field. Recently, Brian also recently completed advanced fiber optic training, and routinely performs fiber optic installation and testing.

With the two new mine certified electricians, MVI can now deploy 14 MSHA and 12 West Virginia electricians. In addition, MVI has 14 West Virginia State Fire Marshall certified electricians – four of which are Master Electricians.

MVI is constantly encouraging and assisting our employees to increase their levels of training and certifications. This greatly benefits the Customer by having only trained and qualified workers on your property.

Congratulations Tristan and Brian!

Mon Valley Integration held a Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk View Site Edition (SE) training class for its programming engineers and technicians earlier this week. The objective of this course was to bring more of our team up to speed on our existing View SE infrastructure installations, as well as educate some of our newer programmers on setting up a successful View SE deployment. Jed Hepfner came in from Rockwell’s Cleveland office to conduct the two-day course. Day one consisted of distributed networking discussion and system design proposal. Day two consisted of software setup, system implementation, and troubleshooting scenarios. Labs were conducted using Microsoft Windows Server Operating System, FactoryTalk View Studio, SE Server, and SE Client. FactoryTalk ViewPoint and VMWare Workstation were also discussed during the two-day session. MVI would like to thank Rockwell Automation for putting on a great class, and CED Mosebach Electric for providing lunch both days.

FactoryTalk View® Site Edition (SE) is a supervisory HMI software package for enterprise solutions. It has a distributed and scalable architecture that supports distributed-server/multi-user applications, giving maximum control over information where you want it.

Mon Valley Integration is a Rockwell Automation Recognized System Integrator; if you have plans to implement a FactoryTalk View SE system at your mine or plant, please contact us to see how we can help.

In a continuing effort to assist our employees with education and training, Mon Valley Integration would like to congratulate Brian Shelosky on completing a week long Fiber Optics training course in Virginia Beach with the Electronics Technicians Association (ETA). The course consisted of hands on labs and bookwork. The labs had students splicing fiber mechanically, placing various styles of connectors onto strands of multi and single mode fiber, splcing fiber by machine, using a fusion splicer, and testing all of their connections with various scopes and equipment, including an Optical Time Delay Refractometer (OTDR). Bookwork led students through the history of fiber optic connections, illustrating how the industry came to be and where its headed. Brian now joins several of our other employees as an ETA Certified Fiber Optics Technician/Installer. Find out what our fiber optics installation department can do for you here.