Understand Past Failures to Create a Safer Future

Evaluating building collapses, worker accidents, mechanical system failures, cracks, leaks, fires, and floods; assessing vibrational, seismic, and adjacent construction damage; investigating site incidents, operating conditions, and environmental exposure factors.

Determining causes of explosions, pipeline ruptures, spills, and workplace accidents; assessing environmental and ecological impacts; evaluating toxicity as well as fate and transport.

Evaluating product failures related to design, engineering, materials, and combined factors; assessing safety issues for intended and unintended use; investigating manufacturing accidents and processes, including operating conditions and environmental exposure.

Pinpointing causes of battery fires and failures; examining materials failures; evaluating consumer injuries, such as burns and shocks; evaluating code and hardware failures.

Investigating sources of food contamination; analyzing manufacturing accidents and injuries; evaluating the safety of food and beverage additives.

Evaluating transportation disasters; supporting rapid response for natural disasters; investigating failures for government agency deliverables and processes.

Evaluating failures in medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and other healthcare equipment; pinpointing materials, electrical, software, and biomechanical engineering failures; supporting retrieval analysis, corrective and preventative actions (CAPA), and quality management systems.

Investigating machinery failures, assembly-line incidents and injuries; evaluating explosions and fires; assessing challenges caused by vibrations, electromagnetic frequencies, and other factors; pinpointing root causes of operator error.

Investigating causes of collapses, high-wall failures, tailing-dam failures, explosions, and worker accidents.

Analyzing wellhead accidents, refinery fires, pipeline ruptures, tanker accidents, and spills; evaluating alternative energy failures, including complex issues in solar, hydrogen, and wind.

Investigating motor vehicle accidents, air crashes, train derailments, and ship groundings; analyzing automobile and heavy equipment failures, including components, electronic systems, ADAS, and lithium-ion batteries.

Evaluating wildfire ignitions; identifying causes of accidents with industrial machinery and investigating worker injury incidents; pinpointing issues with gas and water pipelines and regulation systems.

Multidisciplinary accident reconstruction to identify root causes, reduce risk, and improve safety.

Comprehensive battery failure analysis to determine the root causes of failures and identify opportunities for mitigation.

Exposure assessments, toxicity evaluations, and support for issues of toxicology and mechanistic biology.

In-depth field examinations and high-tech modeling and testing to determine the origin and cause of fires, gas explosions, dust explosions, and other explosions...

Multidisciplinary consulting, including expertise in industrial operations and environmental forensics, to reconstruct historical chemical releases.

Accident investigation informed by 50+ years of failure analysis, including falls, equipment-related incidents, impacts and collapses.

Thorough research to examine the role that human performance issues and behaviors may have played in accident causation.

Sophisticated medical device evaluations for a vast array of applications.

Expert analysis and reconstruction of pedestrian and cyclist collisions.

Learn how consulting firm Exponent can help analyze autonomous vehicle accidents and incidents using a multidisciplinary approach.