Ryszard (Richard) Szymani, PhD

Wood Machining Institute

Berkeley, California

Phone: 925 943 5240
Fax: 925 945 0947
Email: szymani@woodmachining.com
Website: www.woodmachining.com

General Specialty Area 1: Accident Reconstruction
General Specialty Area 2: Products Liability

Specialty Focus, Special Skills, Experience: Product Safety, Machine Guarding, Warning, OSHA Regulatory Compliance, Personal Injury and Product Liability, Table Saws, Gang Rip Saws, Wood Chippers, Planers and Molders, Power Saws, Chain Saws, Conveyors

Additional Information: Wood machining safety expert. 31 years experience in personal injury and product liability cases involving table saws, miter saws, power saws, chain saws, gang rip saws, band saws, wood chippers, planers, molders, machine guarding, conveyors. OSHA regulatory compliance and international safety standards. Accident reconstruction and expert witness testimony. Consulted in over 300 cases. Testified in courts in California, Florida, Arizona, and New York. Safety Consultant to ANSI Committee 01.1 Safety Requirements for Woodworking Machinery (1983-1997).

Education: PhD – Wood Science and Technology, University of California, Berkeley, CA ; M.S. –Engineering Science/Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA; M.S. – Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.; M. Eng. – Wood Technology, College of Agriculture, Poznan, Poland

Years in Practice: 32
Number of times Deposed/Testified in the last 4 years: 6