Incident investigations and root cause analysis are a core part of LCS’s services. Requests for investigations can be made through the contact form below.

Investigation History & Service Examples

Typical Client:  In House Legal Counsel or Business Unit Managers

RCA Lead Facilitator and/or Investigator Specialist /Consultant (representative samples)

• Tailings Operations Drowning Fatality
• Utility Plant Electrical Fatality
• Completions Fatality (P Tank Explosion)
• Construction Fatality (Overpressure Inlet Separator)
• Wildlife Attack Fatality
• Numerous serious injuries (Operations/Construction/Drilling /Completions/Mining)
• Gas Processing unplanned production outage(s), fires, explosions
• H2S Overexposure and knock down event(s)
• Multi Year complex large dollar loss events (Reputation)
• Trading floor losses (~$40M)
• Aviation Engine out in flight (Internal Aviation Group)
• Refinery Unplanned Outage (Reliability/Corrosion) event (~$100M)
• Solvent Line Rupture -LoC High Risk Potential (Frozen Dead Leg)
• Mining Haul Truck Metal on Metal Contacts (damage, injury and large dollar loss)
• Crane events (toppled, structural failure, strikes and contacts etc)
• Employee suspected insurance fraud investigation
• Numerous Significant Near Miss event investigations

RCA Consulting / Mentoring /Threat Assessment

• Underflow pump (reliability) risk to operations (estimated threat ~$10M/day)
• QA/QC of Prime Contractor Fatalities/Serious Injuries/Near Miss Investigations
• Risk to Operations Assessments
• Prime Contractor (Risk to Major Projects and Operations) Assessment
• Briefing CEO Assigned Investigation Teams for broad risk assessment.
• Large Plant Fire Water System operating failures
• Large Transformer compromised (272 kV)
• Floating Production Offshore Platform unplanned outage
• Numerous significant near-miss events
• Nitrogen Purge Overpressure/pipeline rupture
• UBC Particle Physics lab critical assessment of investigation practices
• Propane explosion and overpressure event