Last week, the news media reported to the public on a daily basis about the conditions onboard Carnival’s disabled cruise ship Triumph. Fortunately, an unpleasant situation did not become a deadly one. The attention reminds us of the hazards involved in shipping. Carnival, a wealthy cruise line catering to passengers, not goods, and placid waters,…
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Men and women working in the oil and gas industry are more than eight times more likely than workers in other professions to be involved in a fatal on-the-job motor vehicle accident. Historically, more than one-third of those in the oil and gas who were killed in fatal workplace crashes worked right here in Texas….
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The Texas Supreme Court has recently ruled against a fire fighter who was injured on the job. The gist of its opinion is that, once again, a workers’ compensation carrier cannot be liable under the main enforcement provisions of the Texas Insurance Code and the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (dtpa). In addition, the insurance…
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A fire at BP’s Texas City refinery broke out today at 1:30 p.m. Officials with the Texas City Office of Emergency Management were alerted to this hydrocarbon fire shortly after 1:40 p.m. and BP fire crews were called to the scene. No calls for further assistance have been made. Workers inside the residual hydro treating…
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Last Wednesday, a jury awarded a Colorado man $7.2 million in damages for developing a chronic condition known as popcorn lung from a chemical used in flavoring microwave popcorn. Wayne Watson, a 59-year-old native from Denver, filed suit in a U.S. District Court. Mr. Watson proved that the downstate Illinois popcorn manufacturer and the supermarket…
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As reported by news sources earlier this week, three men were severely injured in a flash fire that occurred at the Watco Mechanical Services facility in Hockley, Texas on the afternoon of Sunday, August 19, 2012. The fire broke out in a paint booth which was under construction at the time. According to the company’s…
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Recently, the Texas Supreme Court ruled on the case, Texas West Oaks Hospital v. Williams, and in the aftermath, nurses and healthcare providers across the state have been adversely affected. Before the Texas West Oaks Hospital ruling by the Texas Supreme Court, if nurses and hospital employees were injured on-the-job, and their hospital employers did…
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The construction industry is the largest industry in the United States and unfortunately construction site accidents kill and injure thousands of workers each year. Numbers show 1 of 10 workers suffers some kind of on-the-job injury, making a construction site an accident waiting to happen. Every day we see federal reports that reveal an increase…
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