Houston Explosion Attorney

In the past year, the Houston area has seen four separate fires at chemical plants, including an explosion and multiple casualties at the KMCO plant in Crosby and another fire at the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown.

The explosion of a Houston-headquartered petrochemical firm in November 2019 injured three people, and the strength of the blast left nearby homes destroyed. Residents living within a half-mile of the explosion were evacuated while the chemical fire continued to burn after the initial explosion.

Although working in the petroleum industry can be potentially hazardous, nobody should be injured or killed because of a person's negligence. At the Dick Law Firm, our Houston chemical plant explosion firm will prosecute those responsible for our clients' injuries — or the loss of their loved ones.

What are the most common causes of agricultural explosions in Houston, Texas?

Due to Houston's reliance on the oil industry, chemical plants are widespread throughout the region, and those so close. Although the industry offers vast numbers of decent jobs for thousands of people, they are exposed to hazardous working conditions.

As negligence affects the workplace, more employees may be at risk.

The most common causes of plant explosions in Houston include:

• Blowout in wells.
• Boilers that aren't regulated and managed correctly.
• Smoking of cigarettes in around flammable chemicals.
• Loose hardware that is not fixed or repaired.
• The supervisor's inability to ensure workers are compliant with federal safety guidelines.
• They are training the wrong workers.
• How to properly maintain equipment.
• Inoperative or defective machinery.
• Improper marking of raw materials or additives.
• Incorrect methods.
• Unsafe or inappropriate use of chemicals.
• Occupational protection, breaches.

These cases can be avoided where negligence is not a factor, so plant explosions that hurt or destroy people are avoidable and tragic.

Suppose you have been involved in a plant explosion in Houston and need to take more legal action to recover your injury. In that case, our Houston chemical plant explosion attorneys will support you.

What are the most common injuries linked to the plant explosion?

When a Houston plant explosion occurs, those involved will suffer permanent injuries from hearing loss, burns, scarring, and disfigurement.

Each accident victim we represent has specific financial situations, and we plan each case according to how the accident has changed their lives.

The most common plant-explosion-related injuries in Houston are:

• Chemical, electrical, or heat burns.
• Concussions, severe head trauma, and sports-related concussions.
• Crushed injuries.
• Severe damages caused by faulty equipment.
• Eye injury, including retinal bleeding and pan-retinal retino-choroid detachment.
• Drop from heights.
• Injured by dropping objects or machinery.
• Impact trauma and concussive injury caused by being slamming to the ground, walls, or other things.
• Internal ear damage, such as hearing loss.
• Lung damage from poisonous ingested gases.
• Bone and joint fractures, including injuries to muscles, ligaments, and bones.
• Poisonings due to toxic fumes/gases
• Penetrating injuries caused by flying debris.
• Severe lacerations and disfigurations, resulting in long-lasting scars.
• Smoke inhalation.
• Wrongful death.

If our clients are put in unfair danger by the negligence of another, whether it is a coworker, contractor, boss, or the company itself, our Chemical plant explosion law firm in Houston can defend their interests while seeking the best financial result possible for their particular circumstances.

What if I lost a loved one in an explosion at a Houston warehouse?

The Dick Law Firm will help you. Our Houston wrongful death attorneys are willing to help a family deal with their continued losses by prosecuting the negligent party responsible for their loved one's death.

Sadly, Houston chemical plant incidents often result in lethal results. When these unfortunate accidents lead to life loss, certain people must be kept responsible for untimely deaths.

Owing to Texas's large population and the state's strong dependence on the oil and gas industry, Texas accounted for over 10.4% of all workplace deaths in the United States last year.

While not all of those deaths happened in the oil and gas industry, and even one death caused by negligence is too many, it is fair to assume that even one death is too many.