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TSP is a Fireworks and Commercial Explosives Expert, Fireworks and Explosives Detonators Specialist, Fireworks and Explosives Accident Investigation Consultant with world-class expertise in accident and incident investigations in the field of fireworks and commercial detonator (electric and non-electric) manufacture, transportation, storage, and use.
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This KKAI consultant is an expert who conducts accident investigations and regulatory compliance or technical research for law cases involving fireworks and commercial explosive detonators. consulting assignments include explosive legal issues, criminal, and civil cases equally for plaintiffs and defense, safety issues, accident investigations, as well as business and compliance issues for those in the business of commercial explosives and fireworks manufacturing.
This KKAI consultant owned a display fireworks manufacturing company for ten years, and was also employed by the world's largest commercial explosives and detonator manufacturer for twenty-three years. Extensive experience in all phases of manufacturing display fireworks, and commercial detonators includes design, safety, regulatory compliance, failure analysis, accident investigations, as well as extensive knowledge regarding the chemistry and physics of fireworks and explosives. This consultant was supervisor of the electrical engineering / electronics department at a detonator manufacturing plant, and served on the safety committee, and plant process review board. This consultant holds two patents for devices that improve safety with the initiation of explosive materials.
This consultant was retained on an accident case involving a fourteen year old boy who found a live, unidentified fireworks shell that had fallen from the sky as a dud. The boy along with his Boy Scout troop was assisting in clean-up of the display fireworks site on the day following the event. The boy took the shell he had found to his home, and placed it on his desk in his bedroom, where it was forgotten, and had remained for four months. Then the boy’s curiosity motivated him to take the shell outside and pierce the hard cardboard shell casing with an ice pick. He proceeded to spill out a small amount of gray powder on the ground, and then ignited the powder, causing it to rapidly combust with a spray of sparks. The boy then spilled some more powder out of the hole he had made in the shell directly on the hot ashes of the previously ignited powder chemicals. The small stream of powder flowing from the hole in the shell ignited and the flame rapidly followed the powder train instantly to the hole in the shell setting off a powerful explosion. The boy instantly lost his hand and received other serious injury to his right leg, narrowly escaping death from bone fragments traveling at high velocity.
From a review of detailed recorded statements of the boy and his father, this expert consultant was able to determine the shell size, type, country of origin, and reason it had failed to function properly during the fireworks display that resulted in a live dud falling to the ground. The boy and his father described the shell as round about the size of a tennis ball, covered in pasted brown paper, and having a pointed bump in one spot, but no visible timing fuse. The boy further described the powder that he spilled out as being gray and a little shiny. There is only one type of fireworks shell that fits this description and it is named a flash powder "salute". Salutes function with a bright flash of light and a powerful thunderous boom in the sky, and all fireworks displays have them. The pointed bump in the shell was the timer fuse hidden under a layer of pasted paper, thus explaining why it failed to ignite when fired from its respective mortar gun. Round ball shaped shells are manufactured in the orient, most likely Taiwan or China, the main source of display fireworks purchased, imported, and fired in US fireworks displays.
In addition to this discovery, it was determined that several compliance issues of NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) Standard 1124 were violated by the display company operators with regard to the operator's duties of site layout, site inspection following the fireworks display, failure to inform the display sponsor and local fire marshal of site clean-up responsibilities and age restrictions, and site cleanup potential dangers.
Upon submitting a written report to the plaintiff’s attorney, a law suit was instigated against the display fireworks company. At the time of this writing, litigation was pending with the discovery interrogatories continuing.
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