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Exploding Portable Air Tank: Were There Clues to the Impending Failure?
Incident Description: A man received a call from his daughter, who had a flat tire and needed his help. The man grabbed a portable compressed air tank, which he planned…
Is The Sum of the “Parts” Greater than the Whole? Responsibility in Manufacturing.
Many vocational trucks distributed throughout North America are not manufactured, start to finish, on a single assembly line. Rather, many small, medium, and even some large trucks are manufactured in…
Mill & Overlay
As pavement applications for roadways reach the latter stages of their lifecycle, a “mill and overlay” operation is often utilized to remove a top layer of old asphalt and replace…
Construction Safety: Employer’s Responsibility Requires Adaptive Thinking
Construction has long been one of the most dangerous occupations. For the year 2019, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recorded an average of over 21 deaths per week in…
Sun Glare and the Circle Game … 180 Degrees Makes All the Difference!
Speed from video, tractor-trailer off-tracking, and sun glare are topics I enjoy writing about the most. Sun glare is the topic of choice this time around. Recently, I picked up…
Life in the Fast, Rectilinear Lane
Surveillance videos often distort what they capture, making the recorded events difficult to analyze with an untrained eye. Such distortions will make otherwise geometric straight lines and edges look unnaturally…
More is Not Always Better: Sports Conditioning Caveats
A high school baseball coach organized a pre-season conditioning program for his team. The workout consisted of 4 sets of overhead to between leg “Dumbbell Swings, “Goblet Squats” and “Burpees”…
Always, Always, Always… Start with the Physical Evidence
As collision reconstruction engineers, we are charged with the task of applying the laws of physics to the physical evidence that remains following a collision to determine, if possible, how…
Dunk the Straw
This was a tragic case where a young competitive swimmer drowned in a freshwater lake when he became entrapped under a dock. A beautiful private lake with many open water…
