Worker Injury Articles

Firm partner Benny Agosto, Jr. filed a new lawsuit on behalf of the wife and family of a worker who lost his life in an excavation/trench collapse earlier this year. The man’s employer has been sued for gross negligence in the lawsuit filed by Mr. Agosto. Earlier in the year and prior to the date…

On Wednesday, August 10, 2016, seven people were killed following a fatal explosion and fire at the Flower Branch Apartments in Silver Springs, Maryland. The incident left an additional twenty-five individuals injured and as many as 150 displaced. Even worse, of the seven people who died, two were children. In the three months following the…

On August 10, 2016, in Silver Springs, Maryland, an apartment fire and explosion resulted in the deaths of seven people. The fire and explosion also injured more than thirty people and displaced more than eighty families. Officials reported that the natural gas explosion occurred in the meter room of the Flower Branch apartment complex. After…

A food truck, known as Porky’s City Grill, located at 11616 Hempstead Road, Houston, Texas 77092, in the parking lot of Empire Tools, exploded on September 28, 2016 causing severe debilitating injuries to an employee. More specifically, on or about September 28, 2016, Brenda Guajardo Alvarado was working inside of the food truck preparing food…

Work injuries are all too common. Workers who are injured on the job should be compensated for work-related illnesses and injuries. When someone gets injured at work, workers’ compensation insurance should generally apply if the employer subscribes to workers’ compensation coverage. But obtaining workers’ comp. benefits is not always easy. Even individuals who have serious,…

Officials in the town of Sunray in the Texas Panhandle have reported that a gas line ruptured and caught fire Thursday afternoon. According to KFDA in Amarillo, three people were injured, with two airlifted to Lubbock and the third at a local hospital. A voluntary evacuation was issued for the area, and the city has…

An explosion severely injured several workers at the Sunoco Logistics plant in Nederland, Texas on Friday, August 12, 2016, at approximately 8:40 p.m. Several workers, contracted to work on a pipe containing crude oil, were working the night-shift, when suddenly and without warning, the pipe exploded. The blast and ensuing fire caused severe injuries to…

A worker was killed after falling into the water when a scaffold collapsed. Scaffolds provide essential working platforms for those constructing or servicing buildings and other structures. Builders have used them since antiquity, and they fulfill a crucial need in commercial, industrial, and even residential projects. But, along the many benefits scaffolds provide, they also…