Personal Injury Attorneys / Gas Explosion Lawyers in El Paso, Lubbock, San Angelo, Odessa, New Mexico NM TX New Mexico Texas, Darrouzett, Darrouzitt Texas,

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Gas Plant Explosion
Death Case
1.9 Million Net to Client

Our client’s husband was the supervisor for an oilfield services company that was testing pipe at a gas plant. The testing company would use nitrogen gas to pressure up pipe to ensure that it was structurally sound before it was installed in a gas compression plant. While testing pipes our client’s husband over-pressured the pipe and it exploded causing his death. Even though our decedent was in charge of pressuring up the pipe, we showed that he had been working for over 20 hours straight without a break in violation of hours of service rules. We also discovered that the communication with regard to the pressures that were to be used for the pressure testing was done poorly and critical information was not being communicated methodically. The companies involved had no set policy on how test pressures were communicated to all those involved in the testing. The pressures to be used in the test were communicated verbally and written on chalk on the pipe. It was easy to see that the accident was going to happen under these circumstances.