Equipment & Machinery Expert Witness Listings

Tucson, Arizona

Accident Reconstruction, Biomechanics, Construction, Engineering, Equipment & Machinery, Ergonomics, Hotel & Restaurant, Premises Liability, Product Liability, Slip Trip & Fall, Transportation, Warnings & Labels

Additional Information: Focus disciplines include human factors/ergonomics, biomechanics, safety, and industrial/systems engineering sciences as applicable to premise, product and personal injury liability in civil and criminal matters. Focus areas include human interactions and interfaces between people, technology and the environment involving tasks, hardware, software, policies, procedures, and warnings/instructions. Activities include design consulting, incident investigation, injury causation, and issues involving railroad, trucking, vehicle, pedestrian, construction, and falling merchandise incidents.

Laguna Niguel, California

Power, Equipment Machinery, Generation, Forensic Sciences, Investigation, Risk Management, Electricity

Additional Information: We have arbitration, court room and insurance root cause forensic analysis experience. Dennis's experience with General Electric covers international and domestic installation as a controls start up engineer in addition to maintenance and training. We have represented customers in combustion (heavy and aero), steam turbines plus STAG configurations, generators, compressors, turbine and excitation controls. Past attorneys have commented on the ability to train them on the given subjects. Past work has also included deposition reviews with written and attorney discussions.

Palm Harbor, Florida

Marine Surveyor, Marine Appraisal/Valuation, Thermography, Thermal Imaging, Marine Inspections, Accident Reconstruction, Seaworthiness, Dispute Resolution, Equipment and Machinery, Fire Reconstruction, Boat Design/Construction Forensics, Boat/ship inspections, Condition of boats and ships

Additional Information: Experienced boat builder(78 boats) WOOD, Fiberglass Composite, Steel and Aluminum Commercial and recreational, Accredited Marine Surveyor with 9600+ boats inspected, Certified in Thermography, NDT testing Steel and Aluminum, Accident and Fraud Certified, Marine Certified Engine Surveyor Merchant Marine Master with 47 years on license, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, Certified by Polish Registrar of Shipping, Subcontractor for Lloyds

Louisville, Kentucky

Lifts, hoists, jacks, cranes, hydraulics, fork lifts, scissors lifts, industrial machines, safety

Additional Information: Drawing on 40 years of engineering, manufacturing and management experience, Heath and Associates provides forensic engineering services and litigation support relating to lifting equipment (lifts, cranes, jacks and hoists) industrial machines, manufacturing tools, material handling equipment and rigging hardware.

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Accident Reconstruction, Athletics, Automotive, Agriculture, Chemistry & Chemicals, Electricity, Equipment, Explosives, Fire, Premises Liability, Safety, Slip, Trip & Fall

Additional Information: For 30 years, Professors James Miller and Mark Lehto and six staff engineers provided design, analysis and forensic services to clients. They authored books on Warnings, Human Factors and Ergonomics, and also safety book chapters and engineering articles. Equipment and process design safety and internationally tailored operator manuals/warnings are specialties.

Franklin Lakes, New Jersey

Machine guarding, saws, metalworking, food, forklifts, conveyors, rubber, plastic machinery, truck loading

Additional Information: Oxy-acetylene welding and cutting torches, compressed gas containers, rubber/plastic mills calendars and Banbury style mixers, 3-roll mills, vertical post mixers, grinders, printing presses, press brakes, power presses, wood working machines, hand and power tools, doors and gates, hoists, lifts, palletizers, shaker screens, bucket elevators, exercise machines, strut.

Dayton, Ohio

Liquid mixing, powder mixing, mixers, blenders, viscous mixing, mixing equipment, mixing processes, process equipment

Ruffs Dale, Pennsylvania

Operations, Management, Failure Analysis, O & M, Financial Modeling, Pro-forms, Power Plants, Construction, Assessments, Electric Power Energy, Workouts

Additional Information: Asset management, procedures, mergers, acquisitions, insurance claims, property damage, claims investigations and verification, business interruption

Kingwood (Houston), Texas

Mechanical engineer, failure analysis, products liability, design, patents, stress, stability, trucks, high-pressure, pumps, compressors, diesel engine, consumer products, oilfield, industrial, agricultural, lifts, crane, water leak, backhoe, piping, design or manufacturing defect, testing, graphics

Additional Information: 33 yr. expertise: Design & R&D: High-pressure oilfield pumps (Halliburton), automotive components (NTN, Ann Arbor, MI), hydraulic components ▪ 15 Patents ▪ Mechanical design, failure analysis, patent disputes, products liability, defects, stress & stability analysis, testing, calculations, graphics ▪ Truck accidents, Oilfield, Industrial, Construction, & Agricultural equipment failure ▪ Pumps, valves, compressors, brakes, lifts, backhoe, crane, diesel engine, consumer product, water leak, piping, etc ▪ State & Federal Testimony ▪ Defense ▪ Plaintiff ▪ Thorough Preparation ▪ Clear Communication

Renton, Washington

industrial process. industrial design, energy modeling, energy control, steam production, fluid transfer, process analysis, heat exchange, piping, pumps, vessels, acoustics

Additional Information: pragmatic engineering experience in a variety of industries and applications involving fluid and heat transfer coupled with analysis, design, start-up, and maintenance with domestic and international experience.

Hubertus, Wisconsin

Vertical Conveyors, Material Handeling, Conveyors, Dynamic Analysis, Animations, Forensic Engineering, Elevators, Shopping Cart Conveyors, Material Lifts, Dock Lifts, Hydraulic Lifts, Freight Lifts, Custom Machinery

Additional Information: Professional Engineer with 26 years experience in the material handling industry, specifically in the areas of custom material lifts, vertical conveyors, shopping cart conveyors (escalators), and custom material handling systems for capacities ranging from 50 lb. to 300,000 lb. Experienced at forensic engineering and writing expert opinion reports. Have received expert witness training through SEAK, Inc. Engineering specialties include dynamic system analysis and animation (multi-body physics, motion analysis), hydraulic lift systems, heavy mechanical drives for conveying and lifting, finite element analysis. Very active in ASME safety codes and standards. Vice Chair of ASME B20.1 Safety Standards for Conveyors and Related Equipment, member of ASME Board on Safety Codes and Standards.