Expertise: "Handling Difficult and Complicated Matters" $140 per hour Accidents, Accident Reconstruction, Collisions, Biomechanics, Injuries, Safety Engineering, Seatbelts, Child Seats, Airbags, OSHA Compliance, Industrial Safety, ForkLift Truck, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regs FMCSA, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Regs FMVSS, Material Handling, Cranes, Scaffolds, Ergonomics, Helmets, Products Safety, Motorcycle, Trucks, Bus, Vehicles, Pedestrians, Bicycles, Bikes, Rollovers, Slip Trip & Falls, Animations, Building Codes, Safety Regs, Construction Site Safety, Amusement Rides, Tools, Tires, Vehicle Fires, Construction Equipment, Transportation Regulations, Injuries, Low Speed Impacts, Work Zones, Machine & Equipment Guarding, Human Factors, Hazards, Premesis Liability, Building Codes, Handicap ADA Standards, Regulations, CDR Crash Data Recorder, Mechanical Parts, Brakes, Traffic Signs & Control Devices, Industrial Products, Warning Signs, Ergonomics. 30 years exp. experts, BSOSH, MSOSH, PhD Safety Engineering & Injury Biomechanics, PSP, CECD

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Joseph Coplan has 32 years of Law Enforcement experience and is a qualified, ACTAR Certified Expert Witness.

Services Offered

• Preliminary & Detailed Reconstruction Analysis / Reports: Automobile - Motorcycle - Bicycle - Pedestrian
• Skid Mark & Speed Analysis / Estimates
• Delta V, P.D.O.F. & Impulse Calculations
• Speed / Time / Distance Studies - Kinematic Analysis
• Energy Analysis
• Yaw or Critical Speed Analysis
• Vehicle Roll-Over Analysis
• Low-Speed Impact Analysis
• Heavy Trucks (Commercial Vehicles)
• Braking Efficiency & Speed Analysis
• Speed / Time / Distance Studies
• Split Gear Speed Estimates
• Locating / Identifying / Documenting & Interpreting Physical Evidence<

Offices in Long Beach, San Diego & Riverside, CA; Las Vegas, NV & El Paso, TX - Robert Douglas, Operations Manager, former State Forensic Engineer, Registered in California and Arizona, over 35 years of experience in the Accident Reconstruction & Traffic/Transportation/Civil Engineering field. Has provided testimony in 300+ depositions and 30+ trials. Has qualified in Superior Court on Accident Reconstruction; Traffic Engineering; Roadway, Roadside, and Rail Crossing Design and Construction; Off Road Safety; Human Factors; Roadway/Roadside Design, Construction and Maintenance; Wet Weather Accidents, Low Light and/Photo/Video/Computer Animations. A member of ASCE, TRB, National Committee on Uniform Traffic Control Devices , ASTM Committees on Vehicle Pavement Systems, 3D Imaging Systems & Pedestrian walkway Safety, Human Factors & Ergonomics Society (HFES), ATSSA, SAE, IEEE (& life member of ITE & Association for Psychological Science), certified: Federal Highway Administration-Work Zone Traffic Control. Providing accredited surveys in both high definition laser surveys & total station surveys, providing exact models constructed from laser "point clouds" (see www.FieldAndTestEngineering.com web site - & Robert Douglas' cv for complete resume & details).

Areas of Expertise

• Accident Reconstruction
• Traffic & Road Design & Engineering
• Human Factors

• Accident Reconstruction, Investigation & Analysis
• Road Design, Construction & Maintenance
• Traffic Engineering, Traffic Control
• Design Immunity
• Human Factors
• Highway Rail Crossings
• Construction Defects
• Surveys: Total Station & Laser Surveying - Site & Vehicle Surveys
• Wet Pavement Accidents — Skid Resistance
• Slips, Trips, Falls on Parking Lots, Sidewalks and Roadways
• Asphalt
• Animation
• Civil Engineering

Mr. Herbert Sessner has over 39 years experience in the Materials Handling Industry as a Powered Industrial Trucks Expert. Mr. Sessner has been involved in 23 lift truck related cases of which 20 have been settled prior to trial and 3 pending, has taken 4 depositions and provides his services to the Plaintiff and Defense. He is a Certified Safety Instructor at the Master Level granted by the World Safety Organization and has trained over 1,100 lift truck operators and over 110 trainers.

Areas of Expertise:

• Lift Truck Accident Analysis and Investigation
• Review of All Case Documents.
• OSHA and ANSI Operator Training Requirements
• Safe Lift Truck Operating Procedures
• Authored various Lift Truck Operator Training Programs
• Prepares Lift Truck Operator Safety Policies and Procedures

• American Society of Safety Engineers
• World Safety Organization
• Listed in AM Best

Alpine Engineering & Design, Inc. is a company that specializes in rapid product development. Their engineers have had over 20 years developing the skills of new product design. Their innovative approach to product design can be seen in over 100 patents held by their engineers. When we create a product, we must sell it to our customer. We use resources such as our model shop, computer graphics and animations, full size prototypes and written descriptions to communicate our ideas to our customers. We effectively teach them about the product and its merits.

We apply the same skills we use in developing new products to our work as expert witnesses. We give honest, understandable opinions with the underpinning required to help attorneys, judges and jurors make good decisions.

Alpine Engineering's Design Experience reaches a number of industries including Refuse Equipment, Hydraulically Operated Equipment, Trucks and Related Equipment, Aerial Lifts, Manlifts, Industrial Equipment, Mobile Equipment, Material Handling, Forklifts, Pallet Trucks, Boom Trucks, Suspension Systems, Garbage Trucks, Front Loaders, Side Loaders, Automated Loaders, Rear Loaders, Rolloffs, Liftgates, Exercise and Sports Equipment, Trucking Equipment, Turf Care Equipment, Farming Equipment.

Alpine Engineering's Comprehensive Services include:

Degrees: Stanford Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics (Mechanical Engineering).

Specialties: Reconstruction of vehicular accidents; mechanical failure analysis; tire failure analysis; analysis of vehicle collisions and vehicle response to operator input; dynamics, impact and vibration; computer analyses of solids, fluids, and one-of-a-kind engineering mechanics problems; applied physics.

Qualifications:

Firm Profile: American Crane Training, Inspection & Certification, Inc. (AmCrane) is a multi-disciplinary professional firm that provides crane and heavy equipment training, inspections and certification across the US. AmCrane offers accident reconstruction and expert witness testimony NATIONALLY in Crane, Aerial Lift, Equipment Safety and Management Fields.

Professional Experience: Mr. Burt Thorpe is a qualified Expert Witness in cranes, aerial lifts and heavy equipment with over 35 years experience in crane safety, equipment ownership and operation. His experience includes 4 1/2 years with the largest road and bridge contractor in the Southeast, with company wide responsibility in all cranes, rigging, critical lifts and operators. Mr. Thorpe spent 10 years as the Secretary/Treasurer, General Manager of a multi-office, multi-state equipment dealer and owner of cranes and aerial lifts. Duties included their purchase, new and used sale, rental, inspection, maintenance, repair, assembly, disassembly, transport and management.

Direct Hands-On Experience In:

Donald James Anderson is an Accident Reconstruction Specialist. His background includes research and engineering analysis for General Motors. He is now in private practice as a Consulting Engineer. Mr. Anderson has reviewed over 2,000 accidents since 1971.

Areas of Accident Reconstruction Expertise:

BACKGROUND: Over 40 years Human Factors Engineering experience working in industry and as a litigation and design consultant. Provided Human Factors support for the design and development of complex military, commercial and computer systems as well as consumer products to optimize the man/system or man/product interface. Efforts often included maintainability and safety considerations.

EDUCATION:

Dr. Rolin Barrett is a Licensed Professional Forensic Engineer who provides extensive experience to industries, governmental agencies, insurance companies, attorneys and individuals. His Forensic Engineering Consultation Services have been utilized in nearly 4,000 Cases.

Forensic Analysis and Accident Investigations Include:

• Autos, Trucks, Motorcycles, Airplanes, Conveyors, Forklifts and Other Vehicles or Industrial Trucks
• Construction - Textiles, Plastic Molding, Woodworking, Food Processing, Welding, Equipment Capabilities, Ladders, Elevators, Automatic Doors and On-Site Safety Adequacy
• Origins and Causes of Industrial Accidents - Building Damage Possibly Resulting from Military Ordinance and Commercial Blasting, Electrical Shock Following Contact with Power Lines or Various Types of Equipment
• Equipment Malfunctions and Violations of Codes and Standards- Violent Propulsion of Bottle Stoppers, Compressed Gas Cylinders, Slip Resistance of Various Walking Surfaces, Hoist Mechanisms, Chain and Wire Rope

B.E.C. Consulting, LLC was established in 1982. Since that time, we have provided top-level consulting engineering services and accident reconstruction to our clients; law firms, insurance companies, state and local agencies, manufacturing companies, and clients who are seeking product design analysis and other engineering related services.

Our engineers represent a broad range of engineering disciplines which enables us to work on a variety of cases using the team approach. The teams at B.E.C are comprised of Engineers, Technical Specialists, Graphics Specialists as well as Research and Administrative Personnel, so that each case is given personal attention and is handled efficiently and effectively. We are located in Tallahassee, Florida, but are active in AL, GA, MS, TN and SC. We have worked in almost every state in the United States, including Alaska.

Areas of Expertise:

Dr. Richard Collins, Former University Professor of Biomedical and Human Factors Engineering, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Collins has Demonstrated Accuracy in Research and Scientific Analysis in Mechanical and Biomechanical Engineering and Regulatory Assessments.

His work has been Extensively Published in National and International peer-reviewed Literature. He is an Internationally recognized engineering and medical expert, having earned his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Collins is qualified as an expert witness in civil and criminal courts.

Areas of Specialization:

Bison is a multi-disciplined engineering firm specializing in failure analysis, forensic engineering and fire sciences with a team of P.E.'s who have performed thousands of forensic assignments including in excess of 1,000 fuel gas investigations.

Legal professionals turn to Bison to scientifically conduct investigations to determine the cause of destructive events. Forensic Engineers provide expert testimony and consultation. Investigations include explosions, fires, carbon monoxide incidents, electrical fires and failures, structural failures, mechanical failures, accident reconstruction, specialized testing, and courtroom presentations:

Bloomberg Consulting, Inc. has several engineers on staff who have considerable experience in reconstructing vehicle accidents of all types. We have a Biomechanics Expert that has the rare combination of being a licensed physician and a PhD level engineer. This allows him to handle the complex engineering and medical aspects of a seat belt or a biomechanics case. We use the following equipment to evaluate our cases:

“Black Box” Data Retrieval Equipment – Used to download vehicle impact speeds, seat belt usage, braking information, and throttle information from passenger vehicles and tractor-trailers.

3-Dimensional Accident Simulation Software – Used to accurately reconstruct an accident to determine vehicle speed, occupant movement, and seat belt effectiveness.

Dr. Jeffrey Buckholz is a practicing design engineer with 30 years of experience in Traffic Engineering, Traffic Signal Timing, Signal Design and Signal Construction. He is also proficient in Pavement Marking Design, Roadway Signing, and Work Zone Traffic Control. Dr. Buckholz has authored 3 national training manuals in signal design, construction and inspection. He is a PE in 6 states: FL, GA, CA, MA, MI, OH and is a Professional Traffic Operations Engineer. Dr. Buckholz has been chief engineer of his engineering company for 20 years and has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Florida since 2005. He has served as an expert witness in about 50 cases.

Past Project Experience:

Profile: Consolidated Consultants company (CCc) provides broad-based Expert Witness and Medical Expert Witness Referrals on a national level. CCc's experienced Professionals cover many fields, professions, and medical, technical and scientific disciplines. Please contact us toll free @ 800-683-9847 for additional information.

Areas of Expertise Include:

Donald L. Asa is a Heavy Vehicle Specialist and expert in the area of Motor Carrier Safety and Regulatory Compliance. He is a Commercial Vehicle Accident Investigator and Consultant with over 60 years of experience in the Trucking Industry.

Mr. Asa's experience includes professional driving issues, truck driver actions and reactions, responsibilities, qualifications, training, compliance and safety. His services include Motor carrier safety and regulatory compliance review and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, Title 49 compliance. He is also familiar with the operation and maintenance of tractor-trailer brake systems, loading and unloading issues and related heavy equipment issues.

As an Expert Witness, Mr. Asa is available for Consultations, Case Review, Discovery Assistance, Deposition and Trial Testimony.

Areas of Expertise:

Peter J. Weller is a Mechanical Engineer with expertise in Mechanical and Hydraulic Design. He has his MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. Mr. Weller is a Registered Professional Engineer in California with over 37 years of experience in engineering, manufacturing and business. He has extensive experience in the design, manufacture, installation, sales and repair of hydromechanical equipment, towtrucks, car carriers, auto lifts and construction equipment.

Mr. Weller has patented an Automotive Lifting and Towing Apparatus. Among other accomplishments, he has designed a hydraulic clamshell system for use on a telescopic handler and lifting devices to be used by crane operators for loading heavy cargo onto cargo ships.

Dennis W. Eckstine is an expert on cranes, aerial work platforms, various types of lifting equipment, heavy duty trucks, carriers, and other similiar construction, industrial and agricultural equipment. He has held senior positions in engineering, quality, product safety and reliability for major manufacturers including representing the company at trial. Through his active involvement in current standards committees, his education, and his engineering and product safety experience at Grove Worldwide he brings a solid scientific and practical background to his clients.

He was previously Vice President, Senior Director of Product Safety & Reliability, and Director of Engineering Administration for different major manufacturers. He possesses a BSME and MBA. Mr. Eckstine started as a full time employee in the construction equipment industry in 1971 for Grove.

He is currently a member of numerous committees within the organizations of ANSI (American National Standards Institute), SAE (Society of Automotive Engineering), ISO, and National Commission for the Certification of Crane Operators. Mr. Eckstine was the founding International Chairman of ISO TC 214 for Elevating Work Platforms. He is currently International Chairman of ISO TC 96 SC 6 for Mobile Cranes, and a Commissioner of CCO.

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