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Material Handling Expert Witnesses

Material handling expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on material handling. The material handling expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Business Operations, Engineering, Equipment & Machinery, Food, Management, Mechanical Engineering, OSHA, Safety, and Trucking.

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Dustin Hickey, CSP, CRSP, CMIOSH, CMQ/OE

OSHA/Workplace Safety & Premises Liability Expert

LegacyMark Safety Consulting (Texas & Nationwide)

Alabama

OSHA, Safety - Construction Safety, Industrial Safety, Confined Space, Slips/Trips, Lockout/Tagout, Machine Guarding, Trenching/Excavation, Scaffolding, Cranes & Rigging, Forklift, Workplace Safety, Aerial Lifts, Amputations, Material Handling, Electrocution, Ladder Safety, OSHA, Construction Accident, Warehouse Safety, Fall Protection

Board-certified and chartered safety & health executive and consultant, holding designations in the United States (CSP), Canada (CRSP), and the United Kingdom (CMIOSH). 20+ years of relevant work experience from field to executive leadership followed by safety consulting and safety expert witness work. Expert in OSHA 29 CFR 1910/1926 interpretation, compliance auditing, and safety management systems. — CERTIFICATIONS — · Certified Safety Professional (CSP) Board of Certified Safety Professionals, United States · Canadian Registered Safety Professional (CRSP) Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals, Canada · Chartered Member of IOSH (CMIOSH) Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, United Kingdom — EXPERTISE — · Construction Safety · Manufacturing Safety · Industrial Safety · OSHA Compliance · Workplace Safety & Health · Premises Liability · Confined Spaces · Fall Protection, Elevated Work · Lockout/Tagout (Control of Hazardo...

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Dustin Hickey, CSP, CRSP, CMIOSH, CMQ/OE

OSHA/Workplace Safety & Premises Liability Expert

LegacyMark Safety Consulting (Texas & Nationwide)

California

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Chip Darius, OHST, CIT, CSHO, CUSP

OSHA and Safety Expert Witness

Safety Priority Consultants, LLC

Cromwell, Connecticut

OSHA, Safety - forklift, slip trip & fall, machine guarding, amputation, material handling, occupational safety & health, aerial lift, boom lift, scissor lift, work zone, traffic, flagger, scaffold, ladder, lockout/tagout, Emergency Medical Services, mobile elevating work platform, excavation, railroad, MEWP

Retained in over 440 cases, state and federal. Deposition and trial testimony for matters in over 20 states. 35 years experience in safety & health and OSHA compliance consulting & training for industry, construction, utilities, and emergency services. Frequent speaker at conferences and seminars - international, national, regional, state and local. Instructor for OSHA Training Institute Education Center Region 1 (Boston region) and Adjunct Faculty at Keene State College over 20 years, teaching OSHA standards & policies, technical topics, accident/incident analysis, and outreach trainer courses for both construction and general industry. Lead instructor for fall protection, scaffold, and work zone safety courses. Construction Safety Professional of the Year, Associated General Contractors of Connecticut, 2022. Authorized OSHA Outreach Trainer for both construction and general industry. ATSSA Master Instructor. Experienced in: Personal injury, catastrophic injury and fatality ca...

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Dustin Hickey, CSP, CRSP, CMIOSH, CMQ/OE

OSHA/Workplace Safety & Premises Liability Expert

LegacyMark Safety Consulting (Texas & Nationwide)

Florida

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Stephen (Steve) T. Hopper, PE

Warehousing, Distribution, & Logistics Specialist

Inviscid Consulting

Canton, Georgia

Business Operations, Engineering - supply chain, warehouse, warehousing, distribution, logistics, material handling, productivity, automation, industrial engineering, warehouse management system, ecommerce fulfillment, capacity, WMS, TMS, warehouse accident, layout, material flow, labor, safety, software selection

Stephen (Steve) T. Hopper, PE, is Founder and Principal of Inviscid Consulting. Over more than three decades, Steve has helped hundreds of clients plan and streamline their warehousing, fulfillment, distribution, and logistics operations by driving down operating costs, boosting capacity, improving service levels, mitigating risk, implementing effective supply chain solutions, emphasizing safety, and enhancing the performance of their supply chain resources: people, processes, inventory, facilities, equipment, material handling systems, transportation assets, and supply chain information technology (IT). Steve has advised hundreds of clients ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. He has also served as an expert witness on dozens of cases involving supply chain operations in the US, Canada, and Australia and has advised private equity and venture capital investors. Steve earned a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering (BIE) degree from The Georgia Institute of Techno...

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Roger H Hanson, CSHO

Construction & OSHA Workplace Safety Expert

Critical Construction Consultation

La Porte, Texas

OSHA, Safety - Construction Safety, Fall Prevention, Ladder & Stairway Safety, Signals & Barricades, Cranes & Rigging, Excavation, General Safety, Scaffold Construction & Safety, Steel Erection, Confined Space, Material Handling, Electrical Safety, Hand & Power Tool Safety, Aerial Man Lifts, Respiratory Protection, Struck-by/Caught-between, PPE

I have 30+ years in the Construction Industry with 15 of those in Construction Safety. I have served in the field as a foreman, superintendent, project manager, safety manager, as well as a Corporate Safety Director, a Construction Safety Consultant, an OSHA Course Trainer and an Adjunct Instructor. Over the course of the last 14 years, I have taught more than 3,500 people and accrued approximately 28,000 instructional hours, all of which are directly related to the competent application of OSHA standards in the work environment. I hold an OSHA 510 and OSHA 500, as well as a Certified Safety and Health Official (CSHO) from Texas A&M University College of Engineering (TEEX). After completing my certificate, I was employed by TEEX from 2013-2015 as an Adjunct Instructor, teaching OSHA related courses to those in their CSHO certification program. I am a Subject Matter Expert in Personal Fall Arrest Systems and was the major contributor to the Student Fall Prevention/Protection Tex...

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Dustin Hickey, CSP, CRSP, CMIOSH, CMQ/OE

OSHA/Workplace Safety & Premises Liability Expert

LegacyMark Safety Consulting (Texas & Nationwide)

Houston, Texas

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Joseph B. Michels, Ph.D., P.E., C.P.L., FIISE

Logistics, Trucking, Warehousing, Forklifts, 3PL

Solomon Bruce Consulting LLC

Fort Worth, Texas

Trucking, Management - Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Warehousing, Transportation, Sourcing, Logistics, Inventory Control, Aviation Logistics, Aviation, Military Logistics, Trucking, Business Operations, Material Handling, Forklift and Forklift safety, 3rd Party Logistics, Procurement, Freight Brokers, Motor Carriers

Dr. Michels is a licensed professional industrial engineer. He has provided depositions and testified in state and federal courts all over the USA. He has led organizations in major metal manufacturing operations, responsible for over 1700 vehicles in fleets to include all types of vehicles-- long haul trucks, local delivery trucks and freight line trucks, watercraft. He is a licensed professional engineer (PE) in the states of Texas and Montana as well as a Certified Professional Logistician (CPL). He has managed over 2 Million square feet of industrial and warehouse space in the Arctic, Pacific and the United States. He has testified in state and federal courts on logistics, manufacturing, transportation and supply chain matters. He was the Dean of the College of Business at Montana State University-Billings, as well as the Dean, School of Systems and Logistics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Dayton, Ohio. He is certified by SOLE, the International Society of Logist...

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Timothy Kobernat, CSP RET

OSHA Expert - Former Area Director

OSHAware LLC

Eau Claire, Wisconsin

OSHA, Safety - OSHA, Fall Protection, Confined Space, Trenches, OSHA Standards, Paper Mill, Excavating, Lockout/Tagout, Cranes & Forklifts, Grain Elevators, Multi-Employer Worksites, Material Handling

With 32 years experience as an OSHA Area Director and Safety Compliance Officer, as well as an additional 17 years in various related safety and heath related work, I have a broad range of experience in OSHA & safety related matters. In the approximately 14 years I spent as a compliance safety and health officer, I conducted approximately 1500 site inspections, roughly half of which were related to construction standards enforcement. During these inspections, I evaluated safety and health conditions and hazards, recommended abatement methods, and determined exposure and standard application. While serving approximately 16 years as district supervisor and area director for OSHA, a major part of my duties was to review virtually all files that came through our office, certifying their legal sufficiency for citations. In addition to my enforcement efforts with OSHA, I also conducted numerous construction safety seminars, helping companies to come into full compliance wit...

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Karl L Linck, PE

Food Processing/Packaging Systems/Facility Expert

Kohler, Wisconsin

Equipment & Machinery, Food - Food Process Engineering, Contract Performance, Pumps and Piping, OEE, Sanitary equipment Compliance, Industrial Hygiene/Mold, Packaging Systems, Patents, Performance Packaging Systems, Performance Process Systems, 3A GFSI USDA, Sanitary Building Construction, Performance Measurement, Food Waste POTW, Material Handling

Mr. Linck is an expert in food industry production and packaging with 45+ years of experience. He is a Professional Engineer in WI, IL, AZ, CA, FL, and ID and has held leadership roles with expert witness testimonies regarding IP and contract issues. His main area of experience is with the sanitary systems and their design in hygienic food processing. His experience covers food processing systems/equipment, facility sanitary design, equipment and engineering contracting, packaging line efficiency, MAP (Modified atmosphere) and food packaging equipment.

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Mark R Webster, PE, MSME, MBA

Webster Engineering, LLC

Hubertus, Wisconsin

Mechanical Engineering, Equipment & Machinery - Conveyors, Elevators, Material Lifts, Industrial Controls, Dynamic Analysis, Animations, Forensic Engineering, Intellectual Property, Freight Lifts, ASME Safety Standards, Failure Analysis, Hydraulics, Manufacturing, Products Liability, Lifting Systems, Material Handling, Machinery, Patents

Licensed Professional Engineer with more than 35 years of experience with conveyors, and a wide range of industrial machinery and control systems. conveyor systems, material handling systems, elevators, material lifts, vertical conveyors, shopping cart conveyors (adjacent to escalators), automated car parking systems, custom engineered machinery and systems. Board Certified Forensic Engineer. Chair of ASME B20.1 Safety Standards for Conveyors and Related Equipment, Member of ASME Board on Safety Codes and Standards, member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers. Engineering specialties include machine design, dynamic system analysis and animation (multi-body physics, motion analysis), hydraulic lifts and systems, heavy mechanical drives for lifting and other material handling applications, finite element analysis. Very active in ASME safety codes and standards.