Causey Engineering has
been providing Expert Witness, Forensic Engineering, Investigation, and
Litigation Support services NATIONWIDE since 1983. We specialize in Industrial
processes, along with Industrial and Construction Safety for either Plaintiff or
Defense Counsel – where we apply our in-depth expertise in addressing the most
crucial issues of each case.
Following are brief
comments describing the main issues on cases Causey has worked on in recent
times. They are grouped by the type of Industry or Discipline.
CONSTRUCTION
- WV - Drilling Crane Accident :
What should have been expected of the operator, and what training
was done for the injured party in West Virginia?
- OK - Guardrail Failure :
Did the General Contractor provide an
adequate construction guard railing in an Oklahoma fatality?
- FL - Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Exposure :
Why
did poisonous gas get to the crane operator in a pulp mill in Florida?
- TX - Scaffold Failure :
Employee topples through railing in mobile
home manufacturing facility in Texas.
- TX - Trip & Fall :
What
were the circumstances that led up to the employee falling off the roof in
Texas?
- TX - Trip & Fall :
Who had what responsibilities when the
electrical contractor employee tripped over a masonry cord in Texas?
FOOD MANUFACTURING
What obligations does the equipment
manufacturer have to prevent the user employee from injury while cleaning
conveyor equipment in Texas?
IN - Rendering Plant Explosion Analysis :
What must be done to prevent this Indiana
Plant explosion from happening again in the Corporations other pet food
manufacturing plants?
TX - Pie Crust Line :
Was the guarding adequate for the dough
feeder in Texas?
LUMBER & WOOD INDUSTRY
What should be the expected board feet yield of tone wood from
timber logged in the Prince George area, and what were the skills of the
parties involved to realize that potential in the Canadian and Idaho plants?
Lumber Band Break –
Did the Mississippi lumber mill properly
load and haul the truck of timbers that fell on the customer’s employee when
cutting steel bands in Illinois?
Lumber Band Break –
Did the home improvement center employee
use proper precautions while cutting steel bands in New York?
Lumber Band Break –
Did the lumberyard employee take proper
precautions for the customer when cutting steel bands from a unit of lumber
in Texas?
Lumber Re-manufacturing Kick-back Accident
-
What are the standard practices for
operating a finger jointer and edger that caused a Temp employee’s hand to
be cut off in California?
Plywood Vault Entrapment -
Did the design firm omit a safety device that would have prevented
an employee from being trapped in a scalding steam vault in Washington?
Saw Mill Edger
Accident -
What is the division
of responsibilities between the equipment supplier, sawmill owner, and an
employee in an accident where the employee broke both arms when his clothing
wrapped around an unguarded shaft in North Carolina?
MATERIAL HANDLING
- FL - Airport
Baggage Handling :
How do construction millwrights work
safely on luggage conveyers in Florida?
TX - Front End Loader Brake Failure :
Did the front-end loader brakes fail, and
were they properly maintained in Texas?
NATURAL GAS DISTRIBUTION
- TX - Industrial Pipeline Rupture :
Was the gas utility’s explanation of how
their Gas regulator failed plausible in a manufacturing plant in Texas?
- UT - Safety & Rate Case :
Causey Engineering helped the Public
Utility Commission negotiate a settlement on coal seam gas issues with a
utility company in Utah.
- IL - Domestic
Pipeline Rupture : What were
the circumstances that lead up to the multiple fatality explosion in
Illinois?