This highly-qualified expert has over 25 years of experience in work zone safety, with demonstrated experience in health and safety management, regulatory compliance, safety auditing and reviews, and accident and incident investigations in areas of construction and mine safety. He earned his AS in electronics systems technology at Community College of the Air Force and his BS in occupational safety and health at Columbia Southern University. This expert holds several ...
This highly qualified mining and MSHA compliance expert has over 20 years of professional experience. He earned his BS in human resources from Geneva College. He is a certified safety professional and an associate in risk management. Additionally, this expert is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers. Formerly, he has served as the corporate safety director of the Florence Mining Company, and deputy administrator, chief of safety and health, and senior mine ...
This highly qualified engineering expert has extensive experience in his field. For the past 30 years, he has had specific experience in the mining and metal industry, pipeline engineering, and oil hydrocracking, to name a few. He received his BS in aeronautical engineering from the University of London and his MS in materials engineering from American University in Cairo, Egypt. This expert currently has 9 established patents. He has published over 20 journal articles ...
This expert has more than 30 years of experience in academia and industry specifically relating to mine design, planning, and optimization. He earned his undergraduate and masters degrees at Ghana University of Science & Technology, and University of Zambia. He also earned his PhD in mining engineering from the University of Alberta. He is a member of such prestigious societies as the American Society of Civil Engineers and is an advisory council member for the Mine ...
This expert has spent 35+ years in the mining industry, during which reclamation planning/execution has been a focal point. His experience includes mine and reclamation planning, mine and reclamation plan permitting by way of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) under the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), implementation of best mining and reclamation practices, mine closure, and historic/legacy mine remediation. He began his own ...
This Tennessee based expert entered the waste management industry in 1988, joining the old Browning-Ferris Industries as a District Manager of Environmental, Safety and Health for the Nashville District, covering 22,500 square miles. He was responsible for hiring, training, risk management, claims and compliance with OSHA, DOT and EPA regulations. He later became the Director of Solid Waste for the city of Franklin, TN, where he oversaw the conception and completion of a ...
This qualified expert has over 40 years of experience in planing and developing mining operations. He holds a B.S. in Mining Engineering from West Virginia University and is certified as a Safety and MHSA Instructor. Registered as a Professional Engineer in 25 states, he has worked on projects across the U.S. including projects in South America and Kuwait. Altogether, his experience amounts to nearly $2 billion dollars worth of construction projects. He currently works ...
This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience in statistics, data science, data mining, and machine learning. He specializes in R, SQL connectivity, time series analysis, econometrics, regression trees, categorical data analysis, operations research, and statistical quality control. He earned his BA in economics from McGill University, before continuing his MA in econometrics and MS in mathematics and statistics from Queens University at Kingston. He continued to ...
The mining industry in the United States is one that shares a historical connection with those who work within it and remains a staple part of surrounding local communities where they are located. Though mostly concentrated in specific regional sites…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Nevada Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: United States v. 400 Acres of Land Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 148130 The plaintiff’s geology expert opines on mineral resource calculations in order to determine…
Court: United States District Court for the District of Arizona Jurisdiction: Federal Case Name: El Paso Natural Gas Co. LLC v. United States Citation: 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 26054 Facts The plaintiff El Paso Natural Gas Company, LLC brought claims…
This case involves health issues that have arisen from plaintiffs using industrial products that contained asbestos. It was alleged that consumers, particularly those in the construction and maritime industries who were exposed to the products over a longer period of…
This is a class action case of several thousand miners suffering from lung fibrosis as a result of their exposure to dust over the last twenty years. This litigation alleged that the mining companies that owned or operated 100+ different mines…
This case involves a dispute over a large portion of land that was leased for surface mining. The landowner was approached by a firm asking for a land lease to perform surface mining. The landowner agreed to the land lease…
A lawsuit over health issues sustained by mining workers in talc mines launched an investigation into the mineral and silicate combinations of typical mines. Allegedly, the health issues arose from the mining of talc that contained asbestos, with numerous workers…
This case involves a man who suffered significant injuries from a roof bolting machine at a coalmine. As part of his job, he drove to and from the locations where he was to bolt or pin the roof of the…
This case involves a man who was injured as a result of a work related accident in a mine located in the state of Indiana. At the time of the incident, there was extensive mine blasting being done while one…
Background This litigation involved the alleged unlawful dumping of toxic industrial waste (“Coal Ash Waste” or “Waste”) in the Dominican Republic by The AES Corporation (“AES”) and four of its subsidiaries. Plaintiffs, residents of the Dominican Republic, alleged they were…