Ladder Expert Witnesses in Rhode Island

This expert is a building and construction professional with over 30 years of hands-on experience in the construction and building inspection industries. He has testified in numerous trials and depositions for both plaintiff and defense attorneys. He has been qualified as an expert in construction and personal injury cases in courtrooms from New York City to Connecticut to Boston and has authored and presented numerous Continuing Legal Education courses, coast to coast. This expert has been specifically trained in residential and commercial building codes, construction site safety, residential and commercial building envelopes, slip, trip and fall accidents and building inspections. His decades of practical experience provides him with the unique ability to translate written code words into three-dimensional, real world interpretations making him extremely valuable as a forensic expert. Since the late 1970’s, This expert has been involved in the residential and commercial construction and building inspection industries. He also has extensive experience in prefabricated buildings and ran separate building manufacturing, roofing and drywall companies as subsidiaries of his construction company. Using the partnership and knowledge of his father, combined with his natural instincts and abilities as a building professional, he has worked side by side with his dad in the family building inspection and construction businesses since the late 1970’s. As this expert says, “you cannot learn in college what you can learn from your father”. With that as his mantra, he is a firm believer that there is no better educational resource than hands-on experience. In 2014 this expert was hired as the lead expert by one of New York City’s most prominent personal injury law firms to act as the plaintiff’s safety expert in a construction accident case that returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiff in the amount of $62 million, the highest amount ever awarded to a single plaintiff in the history of Queens, New York.

This highly qualified occupation health and safety expert has over 30 years of experience in his field, specializing in asbestos, lead, and industrial hygiene issues. After earning his BS from the University of Massachusetts, this expert went on to become a certified safety professional and ergonomics assessment specialist. He is an active member of the American Society of Safety Professionals and has completed extensive professional development coursework with the OSHA Training Institute Education Center of New England. Namely, this expert has training and experience in excavations, trenching, and soil mechanics; electrical standards; fall arrest systems; accident investigation; and safety and health management. Formerly, he served as a safety officer and project monitor for Dec-Tam Corporation and as a technical coordinator for Quality Control Services, Inc. This expert is currently based in Massachusetts as an independent consultant for occupational safety and health, where he regularly works on construction and general industry assignments, providing hazard assessments, safety program development, and training.