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Oil & Gas Field Injuries

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Again, being in Texas we are the largest oil and gas producing state in the country. We’ve got the Barnett Shale, the Eagle Ford Shale, so yes, we’ve got oilfield accidents that involve being on the actual rig. We run into a lot of pipeline incidents where pipelines aren’t maintained and they rupture and they blow up. Obviously, you’ve got a lot of oilfield vehicle issues, you know you’ve got the oilfield trucks on the road; you got guys who have been driving for 18, 24 hours. They don’t really have the same regulations because they’re in the oilfield that you would have for like an interstate carrier.

And when things go wrong in an oilfield, it’s usually catastrophic. It’s not oh, we made a little mistake but usually things catch fire, things blow up, things collapse and you end up with real significant injuries if not someone dying.

Houston, TX Personal Injury Attorney Daniel D. Horowitz, III talks about cases he’s been involved in that entail oil & gas field injuries.

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