Theater & Event Safety Expert
Theater Entertainment Expert Witness
Tom McClain is a theatrical and entertainment event expert consulting on best practices, event safety and stage accidents. He has 40 plus years of hands-on experience in music festivals, concerts, stagecraft, theater production, opera, film, rigging standards, stage labor relations and vendor management. He provides Expert Witness Services to law firms involved Performing Arts Safety and Accident litigation.
Expert Witness Services
Civil Cases
- Case and document review
- Identification of pertinent issues
- Report writing
- Expert witness trial testimony
Providing Expertise
- Stage related accidents
- Performer injuries
- Major event site coordination
- Personal injuries during set-up, performance or strike.
- Best practices for production and backstage operations
- Event design
- Rigging incidents
- Rigging design
- Structural failures
Select Cases
- 2013 – Indianapolis State Fair Stage Collapse
- 2014 – Dancer injured by a cryogenic special effect
- 2015 – Stagehand injured during a load out
- 2016 – Dancer disabled by stage machinery on a cruise shop
- 2017 – Patent infringement case concering a theatrical rigging system
- 2017 – Audience member injured by falling off a stage during a perfomance
- 2017 – Audience member injured by falling off a stage during a rock show
- 2018 – Fall from stage
- 2019 – Injury from a cable ramp trip hazard
- 2019 – Stagehand injury, LED screen rigging failure at a festival
- 2019 – Lighting Designer injured by falling through a hole onstage
- 2019 – Valuation dispute of stage technical equipment
- 2020 – Stagehand injury during a load-in
- 2021 – Technician injured on a TV show set
- 2022 – Guest injured by a trade show booth collapse
- 2023 – Presenter injured at a hotel meeting
Get in Touch
tommcclain@comcast.net
+1 (503) 539-7740