These days, freak accidents are a staple on cable television. Yet not all these catastrophes are due to fatal miscalculations on the victim's part or chance interactions with electrical wiring. In fact, if a proper investigation is done, especially by an accredited electrical engineering expert witness, someone can be held liable. Here are two instances wherein the help of an electrical engineering expert witness helped determine the real culprit of such mishaps.
Workman Woes A man subject to the back-breaking work that is manual labor on a daily basis may find it hard to justify damages caused by a pipe coming into contact with nearby live wires. Muscular aches and pains come with the territory of being a general laborer and it would be easy for the contractor to attribute similar injuries towards this occupational hazard. Being as no one actually saw the incident, an electrical engineering expert witness was called in. He deemed the electrocuted man lucky enough to have escaped death from a charge that was enough to melt and cut the wires that held the pipe and fused part of the pipe to the building's metal frame. With the electrical engineering expert witness' investigation and conclusion therein, the plaintiff was awarded for the injuries that lead to bilateral fusion operations on his wrists.
Vertical Clearances After receiving recompense from the sailboat company, a crane operator turns on the electric company whose wires led to his electrocution. With the help of his electrical engineering authority, his lawyers were able to prove that it was the company's negligence to safety that permitted the wires to hang 15 feet less than standard. While removing the mast off of a sailboat, the pole touched the live wires nearby leading to electrical injuries, medical expenses, loss and suffering, and lost income. The electrical engineering specialist positioned that it was "common sense" for an electric company to submit to the 45 feet vertical clearance for areas that are obviously handling sailboat rigging and launching. The court awarded the plaintiff almost $5 million in damages alone, not including interest and costs that he would be further entitled to.
An electrical engineering expert will tell you that not all accidents are unstoppable. In fact, these supposed freak accidents may be the doing of faulty equipment, bad workmanship, machine failure, and even gross negligence. So if you find yourself in such a circumstance, reconsider the circumstances. You may need the help of an electrical engineering expert witness.
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