Incident Investigation
BakerRisk has conducted detailed forensic investigations of hundreds of incidents including many of the catastrophic industrial explosion losses that have occurred during the past 20 years.
Typical activities carried out by BakerRisk staff in support of an accident investigation include:
- Planning and coordinating the investigation
- Collecting and preserving physical evidence
- Interviewing witnesses
- Documenting damage to structures and equipment
- Mapping fragment and debris throw
- Conducting chemical and metallurgical analyses
- Developing potential accident scenarios
- Determining explosion source and energy
- Developing blast load contours
- Simulating the accident through modeling
- Conducting experiments to investigate scenarios
- Determining origin and root cause
- Providing litigation support and expert testimony