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An electrician was shocked, knocked down and badly burned when the 2000-amp electrical chassis he was modifying short-circuited. The workers' compensation insurance company hired APTECH to investigate the accident. APTECH's findings indicated that the three-phase bus bars had been bridged by a loose metal component, and that the panel had not been de-energized before the work commenced.

Satish Almaula		Plant failure and root cause analysis; process and design engineering analysis; process technology development and testing; plant engineering, operations, maintenance and safety management; plant and process control system management.

Richard Schreiber, P.E.		Machinery and mechanical device failure analysis, mechanical testing, combustion and heat transfer, industrial fires and explosions, gas appliances.

Kimble Clark, Ph.D.		Failure analysis, heat transfer & thermodynamics, process plant equipment failures & explosions, fuel science, combustion, industrial fires and explosions.