Authoritative, layman-friendly testimony

on incidents involving chemicals

Explosion and fire from spark-ignited solvent fumes.

Prepared technical report on solvent volatility, spread of fumes, and source of ignition. Identified human errors.

Toxins spread from a leaking lagoon for chemical wastes.
Deposition testimony on process that produced chemical wastes, on alternative methods of

disposal, and exposures.

Personal injury to workers from factory lead fumes.
Analyzed air pollution data for plaintiff, prepared report, and testified in jury trial on exposures

and EPA/OSHA standards.

Fire spread by combustible vegetable oil in storage.
Prepared report on hazards of storage in relation to the spontaneous combustion that is well known

to persons trained in the field.

Patent infringement on a corrosion-protective coating.
Explained complex chemistry of process to distinguish between competing patents.  Prepared

report and deposition.

Spontaneous combustion of a supermarket charcoal.
Explained mechanism of spontaneous combustion, prepared report on cause and origin of fire. 

Chemical wastes from leaks in pharmaceuticals plant.
Analyzed causes of underground leakage, alternative storage, and process techniques.

Injuries from explosion in a pharmaceuticals plant.
Identified causes of explosion as well as the chemicals and process techniques that produced hazard.

Fire caused by storage of combustible naphthalene.
Reported on flammability of naphthalene, its heating characteristics and hazards, origins of

massive fire.

Explosion and fire in a drum disposal facility.
Identified the source of a fire in a drum thought to be empty of a flammable solvent.