What to Know About Accidents and Injuries on the Oil Field With over a billion barrels of oil produced each year, Texas is the largest oil-producing state in the country. Thousands of people are employed on oil fields throughout the state leading to a large number of injuries each year. At Fibich, Leebron, Copeland, &…
Houston is a bustling hub of commerce and commercial activity, which is great for the region and for the many people who benefit from a healthy job market. Because much of this rich business environment is hinged on heavy industry, however, jobs in the Houston area can be dangerous. In fact, Houston sees thousands of…
Over the past two weeks, the Houston area has experienced two massive explosions in two different chemical plants. One at the KMCO chemical plant in Crosby that happened on April 2, and another at the Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) plant in Deer Park on March 17. KMCO Plant Explosion At least one person has died…
Last week, an explosion at PeroxyChem, a Pasadena chemical plant that produces hydrogen peroxide and other products, resulted in the death of a contractor and has left three other workers with serious injuries. This accident is just the latest in a string of plant explosions in the greater Houston area over the past 14 months. In…
Last November, four workers at a DuPont Co. plant in La Porte, Texas were killed after being exposed to a deadly airborne chemical called methyl mercaptan, a substance used by the plant to produce insecticide. The accident occurred early in the morning when a worker tried to drain what she thought was water from a…
An industrial accident at the Tenaris coiled tubing facility, located in Tidwell in northeast Harris County, has left one man dead. The accident occurred between 3:30 and 4:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 1, 2015. According to news reports, the man, a seven-year veteran of the company and father of six children, was crushed to death after getting…
A string of deadly explosions in the Chinese port city of Tianjin last week has left the world’s tenth-busiest container port a smoldering wasteland of devastation. Lax safety procedures and grievous oversights have been blamed for the accident, which is so far responsible for the deaths of over 100 people and more than 700 injuries….
Early Saturday morning on November 15, a serious chemical leak at a DuPont plant in La Porte, Texas left four workers dead and another employee critically injured. According to reports from safety officials and emergency personnel, the workers had been responding to reports of a leak when they were overcome. The leak involved methyl mercaptan,…
