Worker Injury Articles

Recently, the Texas Supreme Court expanded protections available to insurance companies facing lawsuits from injured workers. In 1997, Glenn Johnson suffered terrible injuries as a result of an explosion at a smelting plant where he worked in Amarillo. He was left with severe burns all over his body and even had to have an arm…

Surprisingly, the most dangerous state for oil and gas workers is not Texas. It’s North Dakota. Oil and gas workers in North Dakota die on the jobs three times more frequently than the national average. In contrast, Texas was fifth on the list for workrelated deaths in the industry in 2011-2012, ranking behind West Virginia,…

Will the decline in oil prices throughout the world affect Texas? Of course it will. Tax revenues will decrease, employment will decline and related businesses will be forced to scale back or shut their doors entirely. However, there may eventually be an upside to this decline in oil and gas revenue: a decrease in worksite…

Speaking before a Senate committee, U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso confirmed that the deaths of the 4 workers at the DuPont chemical plant in La Porte, Texas were the result of broken plant equipment and lax safety practices. A clogged pipe from the methyl mercaptan, a key ingredient in pesticides, caused the deadly…

Last year, fifteen people were killed by a sudden explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas. Last month, four more people were killed at a pesticide plant in La Porte, Texas. Mr. Rafael Moure-Eraso, the Chairman of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, characterized the present situation as a “safety crisis.” Chairman Moure-Eraso called for…

A workplace accident in Texas may prove to be fatal, and this is going to be a difficult time for the family members left behind. Without compensation of any sort, though, these difficulties are made even more drastic because of the cost of a funeral and other such arrangements. On top of that, the family…

American chemical manufacturer, DuPont, has recently stated that 23,000 pounds of toxic gas have leaked from the company’s La Porte chemical plant, resulting in at least four deaths. This is a substantial increase over the initial estimate of 100 pounds reported earlier last month to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The substance leaked at…

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics recently put out a comprehensive report detailing the number of fatal workplace injuries to take place in the United States. For the entire country, they arrived at a total of 4,405. This was actually a drop from the year before, which saw 4,628 fatal accidents. In Houston, specifically, there…