Worker Injury Articles

News accounts report that a fire in a downtown building burned five workers Thursday morning. The fire occurred in the AT&T building, located at 1121 Capital Street. The Houston Fire Department responded to the blaze. The five injured employees, some of whom are in critical condition, worked for CenterPoint. They were rushed to Memorial Hermann…

As reported in the Houston Chronicle, Chevron Phillips is seeking additional workers due to a recent boom in the shale gas industry. In fact, an expansion estimated at more than $15 billion is underway at plants along the Texas Gulf Coast. Such expansions have prompted Greg Wagner, Vice President of Human Resources at Chevron Phillips,…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announced on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 that they will refuse to provide additional money to help rebuild West, Texas, where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school, and killed 15 people-the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will continue investigating the ammonium nitrate explosion at the…

UPDATE: As many as 73 people have been injured and one person was killed in the plant blast at Williams Olefins, according to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. As many as seven to twenty-five people may have been injured in a petrochemical plant explosion this morning that closed nearby roads and triggered a haz-mat…

A College Station construction site was the location of a fatal workplace accident yesterday when a shifting of the walls serving as the foundation of the project pinned a worker between two 1,500 pound shoring panels and the ground below. Forty-nine year old Armando Gonzalez was trapped inside a 30- to 40-foot hole when he…

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recently been cracking down on U.S. construction sites for health and safety violations. When a worker is injured, an OSHA citation may seem like a justified response. However, this citation may result in the injured worker getting less compensation for his or her injuries in civil cases….

An oil storage tank belonging to Newfield Production exploded last week, killing one man and injuring another. The 400 gallon tank was undergoing routine maintenance when the fatal workplace explosion. A 28-year-old contract welder from Boren Construction was killed in the blast. The site of the oil storage tank explosion is an active oil well…

In an interesting article from the Dallas Morning News, the paper noted that the state of Texas makes bounce house operators actually carry liability coverage, but there is no similar requirement for fertilizer plants like the West Fertilizer plant that exploded. In the West Fertilizer case, the plant had ammonium nitrate that detonated leveling the…