The Kilpatrick Group, PA provides a detailed and thorough engineering investigation for product defects and failures that either causes serious accidents resulting in injury or does not perform to manufacturers’ specifications.

Our services include:

• Accident Scene Documentation Videography and Photography
• Evidence Chain of Custody
• Design Defect and Failure Analyses
• Product Testing and Failure Analyses
• Digital Microscope Imaging
• Root Cause Analyses
• Laboratory Support For:
• Materials and Metallurgical Investigation and Testing
• Material Damage Mechanism Determination
• Scanning Electron Microscope
• X-Ray Microanalyses
• Electron Microscope Examination and Imaging
• Fatigue Failure Fractography Investigation and Imaging

Examples of Prior Product Failures Analyses Cases:

• Scaffold Failure Analysis
• Automotive Coil Spring Compression Tool Failure Analyses
• Exercise Machine Drive Train Failure Analyses
• ATV Recoil Starter Accident Analyses
• ROHV Suspension System Failure Analyses
• Poultry Halfing Machine Guarding Analyses
• Motorcycle Engine Valve Train Failure Analyses
• Motorcycle Primary Chain Failure Analyses
• Motorcycle Voltage Regulator Failure Analyses
• Crane Below-The-Hook Lifting Device Test Failure Analyses
• Powerline Tower Arm Failure Analyses