Causey Engineering has been providing Expert Witness, Forensic Engineering, Investigation, and Litigation Support services NATIONWIDE since 1983. We specialize in Industrial and Construction Safety, to either plaintiff or defense council – where we have in-depth expertise.
Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Exposure - Crane operator gassed in pulp mill in FL.
Scaffold Failure - Employee topples through railing in mobile home manufacturing facility in TX.
Trip & Fall - Construction employee falls off roof in TX.
- Electrical contractor employee tripped over a masonry cord in TX.
Rendering Plant Explosion Analysis - Explosion in pet food plant in IN.
Lumber Band Break - Timbers fall on an employee when cutting steel bands in IL.
- Lumberyard employee injured while cutting steel bands in NY.
- Lumberyard customer injured when steel bands are cut from unit of lumber in TX.
Lumber Re-manufacturing Kick-back Accident - Temp employee hand cut off in finger-jointer in CA.
Plywood Vault Entrapment - Design Engineer accused of omitting to provide safety device in WA.
Saw Mill Edger Accident - Sawmill employee arms broken when clothing wraps around an unguarded shaft in NC.
Front End Loader Brake Failure - Employee claims front-end loader brakes failed in TX.
Natural Gas Pipeline Rupture - Gas regulator setup failed in manufacturing plant in TX.
Safety & Rate Case - Public Utility Commission negotiated a settlement on coal seam gas issues with a utility company in UT.
OIL & GAS
Oil Production Engineering Error & Omission - Engineering errors committed for pipe design for Venezuelan oil field production.
Refinery Explosion - Employees burned. Design engineer accused of providing an inadequate relief valve system in AL.
Intellectual Property and Patent Research - Employer claimed confidentiality agreement was breached by a former employee regarding design of tools for handling oil & gas deep-water offshore drilling casing.
PULP & PAPER
Boiler Electrostatic Precipitator Unplugging Accident - Contractor burned while vacuuming ash from an electrostatic precipitator in AL.
Corrugated Container Plant Cyclone Plug Accident - Employee falls into automatic bailer from inside a cyclone on roof in OH.
Paper Baler Accident - Employee at recycle paper plant had leg sheared off.
Recycle Paper Process Analysis - New plant not producing the contracted quantity and quality of recycled paper in MD.
Rail Car Bracing Failure - Salt bags fall on employee while unloading railroad car in PA.
Rail Car Switching - Employee claims an injury while uncoupling rail cars in TX.
WAREHOUSING
Warehouse Thievery - Renter claims tools stolen from warehouse in TX.
Well pump Shaft Warehousing Accident - Steel supplier employee injured when banding fails on a stack of shafting in NM
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