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.