Principles of Forensic Engineering Applied to Industrial AccidentsAN INTRODUCTORY TEXT ON THE INVESTIGATION OF INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS Forensic engineering should be seen as a rigorous approach to the discovery of root causes that lead to an accident or near miss. The approach should be suitable to identify both the immediate causes as well as the underlying factors that affected, amplified, or modified the events in terms of consequences, evolution, dynamics, etc., as well as the contribution of an eventual "human