CESI was founded evaluating Product Liability matters. We can evaluate product safety, foreseeability of use, and the cause of an accident involving a product.
Product Liability is an area of litigation in which a product is allegedly the cause of or a contributing factor in a personal injury and/or property damage lawsuit. Products are generally evaluated by examination using failure analysis or human factors to determine if they were correctly designed, using the proper materials, manufactured, and assembled so that they can be used safely with the proper warnings for their intended purpose. Products involved in litigation may have been used in industrial, commercial, and consumer applications and can include transportations vehicles, production machinery, household and recreational products including kitchen appliances, bicycles, and toys.
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Agricultural Equipment is machinery used in agricultural application that can fail or malfunction during its use. With failure analysis we can determine how and why equipment fails and if it was properly designed and used for its intended purpose.
Our engineers can evaluate a product liability case from different points of view, including interaction of the user and the product. We can analyze the nature and cause of the incident to determine if a product failure was a cause of the user’s injury.
Alleged faulty medical devices can range from vascular closure devices to implants, infusion pumps, and PCA pumps, among others. In order to perform an evaluation of these devices our experts analyze how these devices function, how they interact with the patient, and how they were used by medical personnel.
Like most machines, commercial and industrial equipment can fail and cause injury or loss. Our engineers have worked with many kinds of equipment in various industries and have the knowledge and skills to figure out what happened and if the equipment that allegedly failed caused injury or property damage.
The variety of consumer products and the manner in which they are used is beyond comprehension. Any failure is, at root, caused by some physical or chemical phenomenon, which our engineers and scientists thoroughly understand and are able to evaluate.
CESI has trained staff that is knowledgeable and experienced in the design, manufacture, safety, and operational procedures of Forklifts/Materials Handling Equipment. If you have an accident that occurred in an industrial, commercial, construction, airport, healthcare, or retail setting we can help to determine what occurred and the cause.
Machine guarding is a very important aspect of safety in the workplace, especially in industrial environments. If not properly guarded, machinery can cause severe injury and death to operators and others in proximity to the machinery. Our team of experts has knowledge in machinery, machinery failures, and workplace practices. With this knowledge we can evaluate if the equipment was both properly and adequately guarded.
Materials can fail or fracture in a variety of ways that can be reduced to basic physics and chemistry. Our engineers have decades of failure analysis experience with a variety of materials, from small parts to large structures.
CESI has for many years been involved in investigating and providing accident reconstruction services to municipal mass transportation authorities. As a result, our accident reconstruction experts have extensive knowledge of the mass transportation systems, equipment, and infrastructure. Typical accident reconstruction cases involve busses, trolleys, trams, subways, and light and heavy rail.
Warnings are the third line of defense against workplace injuries. Designing away the hazard being the first and guarding the hazard from both advertent and inadvertent contact constitutes the second line of defense. Our engineers have worked with such warnings in many venues and are familiar with the hierarchy of safeguarding and the applicable codes and standards which cover product, vehicle, and machine safety.