The coal-fired SCE Mohave Generating Station in Laughlin, Nevada, suffered a catastrophic failure of a hot-reheat steam pipe that killed six and injured many more. DBA was the key defense investigator for the manufacturer of the pipe in a dispute as to whether the pipe or operation of the plant was at fault. We assisted with finding experts in such areas as creep fracture mechanics, finite element analysis and power plant operations. We assisted in the processing of thousands of pages of documents. We found, sorted and interviewed hundreds of workers in order to defend the failed pipe, manufactured twenty years previously. This whole effort took nearly three years.
Liability lawsuits involving the massive MGM Grand Hotel fire led to over a year of investigation by Douglas Baldwin on behalf of the key defendant. Every guest and employee was identified and tracked, and all those with any potential for having witness evidence as to the fire causation and spread were interviewed and their data organized in a computer database. Every possible piece of data was collected and organized, and all the original materials installed into the key fire areas had to be identified and re-obtained for fire testing.
When a garment district business was destroyed in an arson fire, our extensive surveillance tracked the owners to a warehouse which still held most of the pre-fire inventory.
A San Bernardino train crash led to the rupture of a petroleum pipeline. The resulting explosion killed five and destroyed a neighborhood. DBA assisted the defense team in tracking the history of the train’s operation and the clean-up efforts which lead to the explosion.
Liability lawsuits involving the massive MGM Grand Hotel fire led to over a year of investigation by Douglas Baldwin on behalf of the key defendant. Every guest and employee was identified and tracked, and all those with any potential for having witness evidence as to the fire causation and spread were interviewed and their data organized in a computer database. Every possible piece of data was collected and organized, and all the original materials installed into the key fire areas had to be identified and re-obtained for fire testing.
When a garment district business was destroyed in an arson fire, our extensive surveillance tracked the owners to a warehouse which still held most of the pre-fire inventory.
A San Bernardino train crash led to the rupture of a petroleum pipeline. The resulting explosion killed five and destroyed a neighborhood. DBA assisted the defense team in tracking the history of the train’s operation and the clean-up efforts which lead to the explosion.
