Parking Lot Slip, Trip, and Fall Forensic Engineering Evaluation
Serving Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, Putnam, and Westchester.
Professional Engineers can determine the cause of a parking lot slip, trip, and fall accident. A Professional Engineer can also determine which codes and standards are violated, whether the owner created the hazard, whether a pedestrian injury is foreseeable, and so on.
Many accidents and resulting injuries occur because of parking lot defects. Among the services provided are investigations and reports on slip, trip, and fall accidents and other accidents caused by parking lot defects. Harold Krongelb, P.E., has investigated many parking lot slip, trip, and fall incidents at a wide variety of sites, including restaurants, parks, museums, office buildings, homes, apartment buildings, outside steps, sidewalks, playgrounds, and more. These locations are prone to defects such as irregular stairs, improper handrails, unsafe curbs, poor or improper maintenance, improper design, improper construction, unsafe equipment, and improper repairs.
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Building codes are designed to protect the public. In addition, numerous standards have been published covering virtually all aspects of modern life. These standards also serve to protect the public.
In many cases, the City of New York Codes or the State of New York Building Codes are applicable. Including code references in the reports makes it clear how the code violation contributed to the injury and how following the applicable codes would have helped prevent it.
When conducting parking lot slip, trip, and fall investigations, Harold Krongelb, P.E., analyzes the site and determines the cause of the accident. If appropriate, photographs and measurements are taken to document site conditions. It is then determined which codes and standards are applicable and how site conditions violate them.
After the research, a report is prepared that describes the site conditions, the causes of slips, trips, and falls, and the code and reference standards violated. The reports are clearly written and help all parties understand how the hazard caused the accident and subsequent injury.
