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Texas Explosion Lawyer Wins Settlement in Oilfield Workplace Injury Case

The personal injury attorneys at the Ammons Law Firm resolved a serious injury case on behalf of a man who suffered catastrophic and disabling injuries in an explosion at a natural gas production site in Texas.

Several different companies had been brought in to handle different pieces of the same job, and the work on site was not coordinated the way it should have been.

The company overseeing the work made the call to keep the system pressurized while a crew worked nearby. Nobody shut it down first. Nobody made sure the pressure was fully relieved before the crew got to work. So the crew kept going, because that is what they were told to do, and the system exploded.

Our client was thrown by the force of the blast and struck nearby equipment. He survived, but he was left with severe, permanent injuries.

That is the pattern we see again and again in workplace accident cases like this one. It is rarely one dramatic failure. It is a string of smaller ones. A system that should have been shut down before work began. A safety step that got skipped so the job could keep moving. Put enough of those failures together, and someone gets hurt.

We pursued claims against the companies responsible for operating and overseeing the work, alleging negligence, and secured a settlement for our client to help him and his family move forward.

If you or someone you love has been seriously hurt on a job site where safety was an afterthought, our explosion lawyers know how to investigate what happened and hold the responsible companies accountable.