Richard M. Ziernicki, Ph.D., P.E.
info@baleraccidentexpert.com
303-925-1900
Dr. Ziernicki has personally conducted investigations and has evaluated over a thousand industrial and machine accidents. He has conducted way over one hundred professional lectures on industrial safety and accident reconstruction. Dr. Ziernicki has worked on accidents involving wood chippers, forklifts, cranes, balers, cars, trucks and more. He investigated accidents involving American Baler, Harmony Enterprises, Hunterwood Technologies, International Baler Corp and Marathon Equipment, Inc. manufacturers.
Dr. Ziernicki has authored over fifty papers on accident reconstruction and safety analysis. He has performed testing on balers including evaluation of safety issues. Dr. Ziernicki is very familiar with baler industry standards and with industry practices in the baler industry. Dr. Ziernicki has been deposed and also testified in several hundred cases in State and Federal Courts across the United States. He was qualified as an expert witness in the baler industry, including accident reconstruction, mechanical engineering, product design and safety. He has worked in baler cases where jurors awarded damages.
Dr. Ziernicki is a registered professional engineer in Alabama, California, Colorado, Kansas, Texas and Wyoming. He is Board Certified Diplomate in Forensic Engineering by the National Academy of Forensic Engineers.
SELECTED PUBLICATION
- Richard M. Ziernicki, Forensic Engineering Investigation of Workplace Incidents Involving Machinery (Abstract), Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers. (June 2015).
- Richard M. Ziernicki, The Forensic Engineer in State and Federal Court (Abstract), Journal of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers. Dec. 2014.
- Richard M. Ziernicki, Crush and Conservation of Energy Analysis: Toward a Consistent Methodology (Abstract), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 2005-01-1200, 2005.
- Richard M. Ziernicki, An Insight into Knott Laboratory with Dr. Ziernicki (Article). The Lawyer’s Logbook, Vol. 5, No. 3, Aug.-Sep. 2015.
- Richard M. Ziernicki,Considerations for Applying and Interpreting Monte Carlo Simulation Analyses in Accident Reconstruction (Abstract), Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 2007-01-0741, 2007.
- Richard M. Ziernicki, Reaffirmation of J224 – Collision Deformation Classification. Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) J224, 2001.
In addition to being a top baler expert witness, Dr. Ziernicki has a variety of other expertise in which he is nationally recognized. To view his areas of expertise, please click here or click below.
