Explosives Expert Legal Consulting

If your law firm has taken on a case that involves explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, ordnance, or fireworks, Bob Morhard can help you navigate the technical issues and provide explosives expert legal consulting. Explosives expert consulting is a niche field that requires specific training and experience in order to provide reliable testimony and legal consulting. ExploConsult can offer that reliability, accuracy, and efficiency.

Bob Morhard Simplify's Complex Technical Matters For Attorney's That Are Understandable by Jury's

ExploConsult is operated by Bob Morhard who has more than 50 years of experience working with explosive subject matter. Mr. Morhard has extensive U.S. military technical training and provides explosive expert consulting for various projects including:

  • Accident investigation
  • Forensic accident investigation
  • Product liability issues
  • Forensic environmental issues
  • Product development and formulation
  • Explosive disposal
  • Raw materials approvals
  • Procedure development
  • Risk management
  • Explosives use and application
  • Insurance underwriting

Mr. Morhard has had technical experiences over the past 50 years in explosives, detonator, propellants, ordnance, and pyrotechnics. This experience extends to all areas of formulation, safety, production, processing, management and storage, blasting application, manufacturing, handling, and disposal.

He is experienced in planning, designing, and managing the construction and startup of manufacturing facilities in 110 countries worldwide within more than 745 explosives, propellant, detonator, and pyrotechnic manufacturing plants.

To research more about Mr. Morhard’s extensive experience and expertise working with explosives, check out our qualifications page.

Explosives Expert Support

ExploConsult provides Explosive Expert support to attorneys with insight on initial civil or criminal case evaluation, developing discovery requests, interrogatories, and deposition questions involving incidents or accidents related to explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics material.

Attorneys are extremely busy, often managing many cases simultaneously and require reliable insight into legal strategies and causation. Bob Morhard communicates clearly and quickly with attorneys to define Duty of Care and Standard of Care in cases involving explosives materials, and to evaluate circumstances and the law.

Defining the Duty of Care and Standard of Care elements for explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics material, fireworks, ordnance, and devices requires subject matter expertise. Duty of Care and Standard of Care requirements for any explosive’s material vary, as what a reasonably careful, prudent person or organization would do in the same or similar circumstances with any explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics materials. Bob Morhard performs an in-depth examination of the facts, to provide a But-For assessment and an opinion on Predictability and Foreseeability and Causation described in objective, understandable, cogent and quantitively empirical terms.

Bob Morhard uses forensic tools and procedures and clearly communicates with attorneys on incidents or accidents related to energetic materials such as explosive, propellant, pyrotechnic materials, devices, fireworks, ammunition, or ordnance. Bob Morhard provides reliable, cogent, and concise information to assist attorneys in the development of legal strategies.

​The initial assessment in any case involving explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics material is to define Duty of Care and Standard of Care, and to evaluate the circumstances presented and the law. Duty of Care and Standard of Care are the requirements of what a reasonably careful, prudent person or organization would do in the same or similar circumstances with explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics materials.

Incidents, accidents, or criminal actions related to explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics material have subtle but crucial clues that must be identified. This involves the process of reconstructing a single, unique past event that is no longer observable and examining all the facts that led to a But-For assessment and formulate an explosive’s expert opinion on Predictability and Foreseeability and Causation.

Forensic Tools and Procedures

This involves the process of reconstructing a single, unique past event that is no longer observable. ExploConsult explosives expert professional services include these forensic tools to assess and opine on incidents or accidents related to energetic materials such as explosive, propellant, pyrotechnic materials, devices, fireworks, ammunition, or ordnance:

  • Analyzing the evidence and the scene
  • Accident reconstruction
  • Hazardous materials constituents in the substance or article
  • Laws, statues, regulations, permits, guidance assessment
  • Design, ignition, initiation, and related technology assessment
  • Explosive’s materials physical and chemical analysis
  • Hazardous materials audit UN Manual of Tests and Criteria
  • Logistics audit US DOT and foreign codes, truck, rail, and ship
  • Explosive’s article and inert exemplar testing
  • Compliance audit and compendium US, State, and municipal law
  • Compliance audit and compendium NATO, and foreign government law
  • Compliance audit and compendium for US Department of Defense regulations
  • Process safety management, quantitative risk assessment
  • Hazardous material constituent factors, design factors, formulation assessment
  • Blood spatter assessment
  • Injury pathology assessment
  • Structural and materials assessment
  • Scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction and X ray photoelectron spectroscopy
  • Infrared spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy
  • Assessing the explosives materials involved and the donor/receptor relationships
  • Deflagration to detonation transition assessment
  • Fragmentation zone and crater analysis
  • Fragmentation signature analysis
  • Fiber signature analysis
  • Defining the chemical interactions of the explosive’s materials
  • Defining the physical chemistry handling of the explosive’s materials
  • Preparing maps and diagrams
  • Detailing the process or handling procedures on balance with the actual events.
  • Assessing the environmental conditions
  • Assessing the human factors of all persons involved

If you need an expert opinion on explosives, turn to ExploConsult. We’ll analyze your case and any existing evidence and help you shed light on what happened and how your case can move forward. Get a comprehensive opinion report that will provide extra evidence for your case from our dedicated team.

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If you’d like to learn more about how ExploConsult can provide your law firm with explosive expert consulting, comprehensive reports, and explosives expert testimony, fill out our contact form. After we receive your message, we’ll review the particulars and reach out to you about our explosive expert legal consulting services and let you know how we can help.