For over 30 years Senior Forensic Engineer James D. Madden, P.E. has worked as a forensic engineer and accident reconstructionist in the forensic specialties of:
- consumer products, product liability, and equipment and machinery accidents
- premises accidents, including slips, trips and falls
- traffic accidents, including highway design and traffic control devices
- chemical, gases and materials accidents
- industrial, commercial and construction workplace accidents
- equipment and industrial fires and explosions
- hazardous combustion, including furnace and boiler explosions, and combustion equipment* and HVAC** malfunctions causing carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning
* such as furnaces, heaters, grills, emergency generators, etc.
** heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems in residential, commercial and industrial facilities
This forensic work has been based on principles of mechanical engineering and chemical engineering, including engineering mechanics (sometimes called the "physics of an accident"), and,
principles related to Safety of Equipment and Facilities, including principles of:
- human factors
- safety design (including safety design hierarchy)
- safe operation
- safeguards (e.g. machine guards)
- warnings (e.g. signs and signals)
- codes, standards, regulations and recommended practices.
In the over 30 years of forensic engineering work, Senior Forensic Engineer James D. Madden, P.E. has:
- completed over 1000 cases
- written and issued over 600 expert reports
- written and issued over 60 affidavits
- testified in over 90 depositions
- testified in over 75 trials
The forensic engineering work typically includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following activities, adjusted as required for each case.
- inspection of the accident site, such as a roadway, building or industrial facilities
- inspection of the involved equipment, during operation, or in damaged condition
- photography and/or video of the accident site and involved equipment
- interviewing witnesses - often during the inspection of the accident site, product and/or equipment
- review and study of case documents, evidence and applicable codes and standards
- testing accident items and exemplar items (such as consumer products)
- preparation of drawings, calculations, graphical analyses, computer analyses, etc.
- preparing written expert reports and affidavits, and courtroom exhibits
- coordinating or interfacing with others while they are preparing specialized courtroom exhibits
- providing expert testimony in deposition, trial and arbitration
- consultation with the client as requested, whenever requested
- response to all court requirements, such as scheduling
This forensic engineering work of Senior Forensic Engineer James D. Madden, P.E. followed 17 years of work in engineering design of equipment, systems and facilities, including construction assistance with the installation of these facilities. This work started after receiving the Master's degree in engineering.
12 ½ years of this work was with Engineering Construction companies, and 4 ½ years was with Chemical and Plastics companies.
The first 1 ½ years of work after receiving the Master's degree in engineering, and the work between receiving the Bachelor's degree in engineering and the Master's degree, had significant work in industrial operations. Work in industrial operations continued intermittently following the initial 1 ½ years of this work after receipt of the Master's degree.
Madden Accident Analysis & Forensic Engineering does work for both plaintiffs and defendants.
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