What better expert for matters relating to marine and industrial engineering than a Merchant Mariner who’s versed in ship design and operation, who co-authored the U.S. Navy Towing Manual, and who’s been a recreational boater since childhood?
Bart’s experience doesn’t end there. He took his shipboard experience ashore where he designed, built, tested, troubleshot, maintained, and repaired highly specialized machines and systems. Machine guarding to piping, kettles to presses, rigging to blocking, Bart’s probably done it and crafted the instructions and warnings, too.
Bart holds a patent for remediation of contaminated soil, is a Professional Engineer registered by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES), and is licensed in nineteen states.
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- Seaworthy Magazine Gives Nod to Robson Forensic Visibility Study
The July 2012 issue of Seaworthy magazine gives recognition to the exceptional research conducted by the experts at Robson Forensic (page 4).
The seminal study investigates the visibility of small boats and provides suggestions to the pilots of small and large watercraft to improve safety on the water.
For a complete copy of the study, Visibility Factors in Small Boat Collisions, contact either Robson Forensic or the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME).
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- Visibility Factors in Small Boat Collisions
BACKGROUND:
Collisions with recreational vessels consistently rank as a leading primary marine accident type.
Robson Forensic conducted a research study, with the gracious participation of volunteers from Cecil County, Maryland,to examine the ability of a reasonably attentive lookout to detect and identify personal watercraft.
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- Machine Interlock – Expert Opinion Integral in $510,000 Settlement
A butcher was seriously injured at work. The victim was standing between filling and canning machines, loading stacks of lids, when his supervisor asked him to hand over a tool; when the butcher reached over and between the two machines his jacket got caught on the rotating power take-off shaft, resulting in multiple fractures to his right arm.
Robson Forensic expert, Bart Eckhardt, P.E., opined that the machine manufacturer failed to provide an interlock for the power take-off shaft guard and that the manufacturer failed to ensure the power take-off shaft guard was with the machine when the equipment was resold to the plaintiff’s employer. The absence of a shaft guard exposed the plaintiff to an unreasonable hazard and was a cause of his injury.
The case settled for $510,000 in mediation.
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- Fishing Boat - Expert Investigates Sinking of Brand New Vessel
An experienced delivery captain took possession of a brand new, high-end 35' sport fishing boat. Hours after leaving the dock, the boat sank in frigid water. The captain and crew died from hypothermia.
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- The Forensic Anatomy of the Events on the Deepwater Horizon
Forensic Anatomy of the Events on the Deepwater Horizon: A look at offshore drilling technology, both past and future.
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- Worker Trapped in Machine Sustains Crush Injuries, Receives Settlement of 2.2 million
A worker was trapped and suffered crush injuries to his abdomen and internal organs, when attempting to clear a jam in a copper coil stacker.
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- DuPont Found Grossly Negligent in 2004 Spill
On Monday, July 13, 2009, the jury hearing the 2004 DuPont Litigation returned a verdict in excess of $1.25 million for plaintiffs, who are but six of the 179 individuals suing E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company for injuries they sustained as a result of DuPont's October 11, 2004 release of clouds of toxic fuming sulfuric acid from its Wurtland plant over large portions of Greenup County, Kentucky. The remaining 173 plaintiffs' cases will be tried, under the streamlined trial plan developed by the Honorable David L. Bunning, as soon as Octover 2009.
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- Boating and Recreation Safety - Robson Forensic Experts
When you have cases involving recreational boating, aquatics, or summer recreation,
we can help. Our specialized marine and aquatic experts possess extensive
experience and training in watercraft design, performance and operations and stand
ready to assist your litigation/subrogation.
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