AFTE Store - An Unusual Toolmark Examination of an Impact to aBridge

Tools and therefore toolmark examinations are not restricted to any shape or size virtually any item can be considered a tool if it is at least as hard or harder than the material being marked. This article describes an unusually large tool and impressed toolmark comparison involving two items not routinely examined in casework. In this instance a piece of heavy logging machinery was suspected as the tool, with a pedestrian bridge being the substrate. The application of the AFTE Range of Conclusions in this case also raised some interesting issues.