Explosives Expert
Witness Services

Why We're Different

ExploDynamics' expertise is grounded in fieldwork, not academic or laboratory study — co-founder Aaron Mach brings over 20 years of hands-on EOD experience, and Ben Nelson brings 20+ years spanning military ordnance disposal, WMD/CBRN response, and interagency explosives investigations. Together, they have:

  • Rendered safe live explosive devices in the field

  • Worked directly with military-grade, improvised, and commercial energetic materials

  • Trained U.S. and international agencies on explosives safety, handling, and risk mitigation

  • Advised on compliance with ATF, DoD, and international explosives regulations

Explosives Expert Witness

ExploDynamics provides explosives expert witness services to attorneys and judges with insight on legal cases involving incidents or accidents related to explosives, propellants, and pyrotechnics material. With most cases, this involves the process of reconstructing a single, unique past event that is no longer observable, and performing a deep-dive analysis to derive the facts. ExploDynamics experts work diligently on your case in the determination of Root Cause.

Attorneys are extremely busy, often managing many cases simultaneously and require reliable insight into legal strategies and causation. ExploDynamics 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.

ExploDynamics uses forensic tools and procedures to clearly communicate with attorneys on incidents or accidents related to energetic materials such as explosive, propellant, pyrotechnic materials, devices, fireworks, ammunition, or ordnance. The team provides reliable, cogent, and concise information that is understandable by the Courts.

Forensic Tools and Procedures

ExploDynamics explosives expert witness 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, statutes, regulations, permits, guidance assessment
  • Design, ignition, initiation, and related technology assessment
  • Explosive 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 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
  • Fragmentation zone and crater analysis
  • Fragmentation signature analysis
  • 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
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