Tyler Sherrill’s short time at Road Machinery & Supplies Co. has been anything but typical. He joined RMS in 2019 as a Territory Manager in Virginia, Minn., but just 10 months into the role, Sherrill was attending a motocross race when a bike flew off the track and collided with him.   “I suffered a traumatic brain injury and was in an induced coma for about a week,” recalled Tyler. “For the next five months I was doing physical therapy and undergoing surgeries. I didn’t know what was going on for a while, it was difficult. Through a lot of hard work, I was able to recover.”   The process back was a tedious one. In addition to re-learning how to do basic motor skills and undergoing physical therapy, Tyler still had to build his stamina as he was returning to work.   “I would have to take a nap during the day because I was so exhausted,” he noted. “I also had light sensitivity and other injuries that were still healing as well. It wasn’t easy.”   Through it all, T...

Helm Civil uses iMC technology to complete grinding project underwater No two jobsites are alike, but they usually have one thing in common: they are above water. That wasn’t the case for Helm Civil when it tackled a lock and dam rebuild for the Army Corps of Engineers on the Mississippi River in Rock Island, Ill. Lock and Dam 15 was built in 1931 on wood cribbing and wood piling. Over the years, consistent barge traffic caused the old foundation to fail on the lower guide wall that the barges use to come in and out of lock chamber. Helm Civil, an East-Moline, Ill.-based firm, won a best-value contract with the Army Corps of Engineers, Rock Island District, to remove twelve 30-foot monoliths and install 63 drilled shafts. “The section we had to grind was 360 feet long and five feet tall,” noted Helm Civil Senior Project Manager Clint Zimmerman. “All of it was about seven to eight feet under water, which obviously posed a unique challenge.” To complete the job, Zimmerman had to get the ...