We have one mutual task together: get hand dryers removed from use.
You deserve restitution and damages from the parties that deceived you. We guide you to a win.
We are giving you one filed civil complaint and 15 sample complaints written for purchasers at the links below. Your legal teams may use them without restriction to prepare litigation against the appropriate companies. We are not attorneys and this is not legal advice. It is the map we built from scratch for our own case.
The complaints do not contain the thousands of hours of work that went into the testing, science, and legal analysis behind them. Forensic Dryer Group brings the fieldwork, the command of the record, and the orientation that tells a prepared legal and corporate team which questions win. One working day with us saves months of confusion. This is what we do.
You bought certified hand dryers and installed them for the people you serve. They spray hand water all over the room and the user. They do not dry hands in the time claimed, making them no more green than the paper towels they were meant to replace. They amplify room-air contamination by 49 to 110 times. They grow mold on the walls beneath them. See how dryers fail →
The manufacturer is the easy and proper target. They sold you the machine and the claims that came with it.
Less obvious — and the area in which we are particularly expert — are the certifiers and testing companies that have validated them since 2007. Every false dryer claim was wrapped in a certification that failed to address it: a mark from UL Solutions, NSF, SGS, or SmartEPD, the companies a reasonable person trusts to make sure our products do what they claim and are safe. These companies set the standards, ran the tests, and stamped the mark you and the manufacturer both trusted. Including them in litigation is next level, and we are expert guides.
Legal theory belongs to your lawyers, although we share ours with you for free. Our guidance rapidly contextualizes the primary evidence, brings total command of the record, and the orientation to deploy both. We do not practice law or advise on it. We make a prepared legal team instantly better than it could ever become on its own. Our goal is to win, and to help you win.
We have personally tested 226 restrooms across five states. 169 dryers. 462 drying trials. 1,076 culture dishes, counting approximately 50,000 bacterial and fungal colonies by hand. That is primary evidence no opposing expert can wave away, because it was gathered one restroom at a time, with a complete chain of custody for every sample.
Every paper in the literature. The relevant case law. Hundreds of hours inside the manufacturers' and certifiers' own documents, marketing, and standards — where every claim lives, which would take years to untangle from scratch. We can untangle it in a day.
We have written sixteen of these, one of which has been filed and is currently being litigated. We can answer the questions a prepared legal team asks — about the science, the documents, the defendants — and aim that team at the result.
One day, face to face with your counsel — early, mid, or late in the build — collapses months of groundwork.
If you or your institution purchased dryers and is building — or weighing — a case, the fastest path forward begins with your counsel and one working day with us.
contact@forensicdryergroup.comThe findings cited here are documented across eleven journal preprints with DOIs deposited at Zenodo (CERN) and the Harvard Dataverse. Full data and sources at www.handdryerstudy.com; the complaints at handdryerlegal.com.