Dickinson & Associates, Inc. (D&A) was founded in 1988 to provide the highest quality engineering consulting services to commercial clients and to professionals in the insurance and legal fields. D&A professional staff have provided forensic, safety, and investigative engineering services (including expert testimony) to over one hundred law firms, insurance companies, and industrial clients nationwide. We have provided design, analysis, testing, and safety engineering services to motor vehicle manufacturers, the railroad industry, textile producers, textile machinery manufacturers, the tobacco industry, engineered-materials manufacturers, printing equipment manufacturers, and other industrial and commercial clients.

D&A offers expertise in the following areas:

Forensic and Safety Engineering Services Machinery and Equipment Accident and Failure Analysis Product Design and Failure Analysis Traffic Accident Reconstruction Fire Investigation and Cause Analysis Structural Failure Analysis Safety Evaluations and Regulations, Codes, and Standards Review Slip, Trip, and Fall Accident Analysis

Engineering Design and Related Services Mechanical and Machine Design Stress Analysis HVAC and Piping System Analysis Safety Engineering (Machinery and Facility) Reliability and Risk Analysis Process Monitoring and Analysis Mechanical Instrumentation and Testing

D&A staff have investigated hundreds of accidents, failures, and claims occurring in several states (AL, AR, CA, FL, IA, GA, MD, MO, NE, NC, NY, SC, TN, UT, VA, WV, WY) and Canada. D&A's expertise is utilized by our clients in the insurance and legal professions to support many aspects of the dispute resolution process. We can reconstruct the event, identify the cause(s), determine the scope of damages, develop solutions to prevent further occurrences, and provide expert testimony to support our findings.

We believe that technical accuracy, thorough preparation, professional ethics, timely response, and concise presentation are the keys to successful engineering consulting. These are the tenets upon which our practice is based. The success of this approach has been validated by D&A's growing list of satisfied clients and a corresponding high recurrence of repeat and referral business. D&A is very familiar with, and responsive to, the unique needs of our clients in the insurance and legal professions, especially the frequent requirement for immediate attention to a problem. For this reason our engineering consulting services are available on very short notice, around-the-clock.

Our firm prides itself on our rigorous scientific approach and on our ability to focus on the specific needs of the individual client. Our depth of experience and the multi-disciplinary nature of our staff and outside consultants guarantee that a knowledgeable, qualified project team is assigned to every project. In this way, our clients are assured of accuracy and efficiency.