Hiring a Lawyer
Personal Injury Cases
Motor Vehicle Accidents

Motor Vehicle Cases
Car Wrecks
Truck Wrecks
Motorcycle Wrecks
Train Wrecks
Drunk Drivers
Work Injuries
Oilfield Accidents
Construction Accidents
Farm Accidents
Industrial Accidents
Defective Products
Premises Liability
Slip and Fall
Dog Bites
Catastrophic Injuries
Electrocution
Burn Injuries
Spinal Cord Injuries
Brain Injury
Wrongful Death Cases
OUR RESULTS

Oilfield Spill
Chemical Burn
2.5 Million Net to Client
Our client was working at a gas compression station near Andrews, Texas. A chemical company was delivering acid to a 500 gallon tank and our client went out to sign a purchase receipt for the delivery. The delivery driver was standing on a 5 gallon bucket and holding a high pressure hose above his head to the tank to pump the acid and asked our client to flip a switch on the truck to turn on the pump. When our client flipped the switch, the delivery driver fell off the bucket and sprayed our client with acid causing burns to his arms and back.

We discovered in litigation that delivery drivers for this chemical company had been complaining for two years that the acid tank did not have proper connections for their hose to make a safe delivery. Instead they had to hold the hose over their heads and top fill the tank. In fact, the chemical company had a policy in place that stated they could not deliver chemicals to customers with top fill tanks because of the risk of accidental spills. Testimony from the chemical company management confirmed that they were aware of the safety policy against delivering to top fill tanks and simply ignored their own policy. The chemical company sales people also finally admitted that they knew the delivery system was unsafe, but they did not want to lose the customer so they continued to make deliveries even though the tank did not have proper hose connections.