Odessa Hydrogen Sulfide Oilfield Wrongful Death — H2S Toxic Exposure at Aghorn Energy Pump House Kills Husband and Wife
When the Phone Goes to Voicemail at an Oilfield Site in Odessa
If you are reading this page, someone you love may not have come home from a site in the Permian Basin. The phone went to voicemail. The truck is still in the lot. The children are still in the car. And what you are feeling right now — the disbelief, the rage, the need to understand how a person can walk into a metal building in West Texas and never walk out — is exactly where every family in this situation starts. You are not behind. You are at the beginning of a fight that most people never knew existed, in a place where the rules that should have protected your family were on the books and were ignored, and where the evidence of that failure is already starting to disappear.
We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas, including the oilfield corridors of the Permian Basin where hydrogen sulfide gas kills workers and the people who go looking for them. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in Texas courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue claims from people exactly like you — and now uses that knowledge for injured families. We are writing this page to give you everything we know about what happened at a pump house on the west side of Odessa, Texas, on a night in October 2019, what the law says about it, what the evidence looks like, what it is worth, and what to do before the proof vanishes.
This page is legal information, not legal advice. Every case turns on its own facts. But the information here is the same analysis we would give you on the phone — the science, the statutes, the regulatory failures, the corporate defendant’s playbook, and the clock that is running on your right to act. Contact us for a free consultation. We don’t get paid unless we win your case. Call 1-888-ATTY-911, any hour, any day.
What Happened at the Foster D Pump House
On the night of October 26, 2019, a 44-year-old relief pumper for a small Odessa oil producer called Aghorn Energy Inc. received an automated maintenance call telling him a pump was malfunctioning at the company’s Foster D pump house on the west side of Odessa, in Ector County, Texas. He drove to the site alone, in the dark, with no supervisor notified and no buddy system. The building — a white sheet-metal structure sitting about 500 feet off the paved road — housed three water-circulation pumps that moved production water back into the oil formation. That water was saturated with hydrogen sulfide gas, a byproduct of the oil production in this aging field, where some wells had been producing since the 1930s.
The site’s hydrogen sulfide monitors did not work. They had been installed by a previous owner and had fallen into disrepair. There was a station meant to hold emergency air packs, but no actual breathing equipment was present. The two ventilation fans that served the pump house were broken down. The company had bought a portable fan to keep air moving in the building, but it was stolen, and the company never replaced it. The pumps themselves were chronic failures — a former employee who worked at the site for nearly 20 years said they were not just leaking but pouring water, and that it was “always gassy in there.”
When the pumper entered the building, he walked into an atmosphere containing hydrogen sulfide at a concentration of 96,000 parts per million. That number is not a typo. OSHA classifies 100 ppm as an immediate danger to life. At 700 ppm, the gas can kill within minutes. The concentration inside the Foster D pump house was roughly 137 times the rapidly fatal dose. A person entering that atmosphere would have experienced near-instantaneous olfactory paralysis — the ability to smell the gas’s characteristic rotten-egg odor disappears at high concentrations, which is one of the cruelest features of H2S — followed by rapid collapse, respiratory failure, and death.
When the pumper did not return, his wife drove to the site with their two children, ages 9 and 6, to look for him. She could not see him. The site was dark. The ground was covered in oily water. She could see his pickup truck, parked and running. She walked toward the pump house while on the phone with family members. Her last known words, according to state records, were “Oh, my God.”
Firefighters arrived half an hour later. They found both of them lying dead inside the building. The children were safe in their mother’s car, parked with the engine running. Firefighters measured hydrogen sulfide levels above 100 ppm near the pump house while wearing air tanks. They warned sheriff’s deputies not to approach the building. The deputies found the pumper’s personal H2S monitor still in the cab of his truck, emitting an audible alarm — an alarm that had sounded too late, in the wrong place, to save anyone.
OSHA subsequently cited Aghorn Energy for a willful violation of hydrogen sulfide safety standards, proposing a penalty of $105,253. The Texas Railroad Commission cited the company for failing to maintain safety devices, failing to post required signage, and failing to turn over training logs in a timely manner, proposing a $17,000 fine. The company was allowed to restart production at the lease served by the Foster D pump house by January of the following year.
What Is Hydrogen Sulfide and Why It Kills at 96,000 Parts Per Million
Hydrogen sulfide — H2S — is a colorless gas produced naturally in the decomposition of organic matter and encountered throughout the oil and gas industry, particularly in formations like those beneath the Permian Basin where the geology traps sulfur compounds alongside petroleum. It is heavier than air, which means it pools in low-lying areas, cellars, pits, and enclosed structures like pump houses. It has a characteristic rotten-egg odor at very low concentrations — the smell that everyone associates with sulfur. But here is the property that makes H2S one of the most dangerous industrial gases in the world: at higher concentrations, the gas paralyzes the olfactory nerve. The ability to smell it disappears. The more concentrated the gas, the less you can smell it. A worker walking into a lethal atmosphere may smell nothing at all, or may smell the odor briefly before it vanishes — tricking the brain into thinking the danger has passed when it is actually getting worse.
The mechanism by which H2S kills is cellular asphyxiation. The gas inhibits cytochrome c oxidase — an enzyme in the mitochondria that cells use to consume oxygen and produce energy. When that enzyme is blocked, cells cannot use oxygen even when it is present in the blood. The body’s tissues, particularly the brain, suffocate from the inside. The heart continues to pump oxygenated blood, but the cells cannot extract the oxygen from it. Unconsciousness can occur within seconds at high concentrations. Respiratory arrest follows. Cardiac failure follows that.
At 100 ppm, OSHA considers H2S an immediate danger to life or health. At 700 ppm, death can occur within minutes. At 96,000 ppm — the concentration measured inside the Foster D pump house — the gas is so concentrated that a few breaths would cause near-instantaneous collapse. The “knockdown” effect, as it is known in the oilfield, is exactly what it sounds like: a worker enters a space and drops. No warning. No gradual decline. No opportunity to retreat. The gas at that concentration does not give a person time to recognize danger, call for help, or reach the door.
This is why the oilfield has a recognized pattern called the “rescue cascade” — a worker goes down, a second person sees the collapse and rushes in to help, and the second person is also overcome. It is one of the most predictable and most preventable patterns in industrial safety, and it is the reason every major oil company in the world has strict protocols for H2S environments: atmospheric testing before entry, personal monitors calibrated and worn on the body, self-contained breathing apparatus available at the point of entry, an attendant stationed outside, and a rescue plan that does not involve sending an unprotected person into the atmosphere.
None of those protocols were in place at Foster D.
The Company That Owned the Air Inside That Building
Aghorn Energy Inc. is the kind of workaday independent operator that keeps the Permian Basin running. The company specializes in buying older oil and gas properties — leases where the wells have been producing for decades — and extending their working life. The work is not glamorous, but it can be profitable. The company’s CEO was recognized locally as the Odessa Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year in 2012. He has donated to his alma mater, Texas A&M University. By the standards of the West Texas oil community, the company is established, connected, and well-known.
Aghorn acquired the Foster D lease in the mid-1990s. The lease sits at the edge of Odessa’s developed area — to the east and south, small businesses and rural homes dot the landscape. To the north and west, the country opens up into scrub brush and pad sites. The pump house is approximately 500 feet from the paved road. It is not a remote location. It is on the fringe of a city of more than 100,000 people, with houses nearby.
The corporate structure matters in a wrongful death case because it determines who can be named as a defendant and whose insurance or assets are reachable. Aghorn Energy Inc. is the site owner and operator — the entity that controlled the Foster D pump house, that employed the pumper who died, that was responsible for maintaining the monitors and ventilation and breathing equipment, and that was cited by both OSHA and the Railroad Commission. Under Texas law, the CEO of a company can face individual liability for gross negligence if the evidence shows he consciously disregarded an extreme risk — a standard we will examine in detail below. The dossier identifies the CEO as a corporate decision-maker with authority over safety capital expenditures, and the record supports prior knowledge of hazardous conditions through employee reports.
Beyond Aghorn, the liability web extends to several additional defendants. The family’s lawsuits have named contractors and subcontractors who performed maintenance or installation work at the Foster D site, alleging they failed to properly maintain, calibrate, or repair the gas-detection monitors and ventilation systems. A parts supplier that supplied components for the pump that leaked H2S-saturated water on the night of the deaths is being pursued separately in state district court in Odessa. If the H2S monitors themselves were defectively designed, improperly specified for the environment, or came with inadequate warnings about their limitations, the monitor manufacturer could face products liability claims. Each of these defendants may carry separate commercial general liability or products coverage that materially expands the recovery pool beyond Aghorn’s own assets and insurance — which is critical, because the collectibility of any judgment against a small independent operator is the single largest constraint on what a case like this is worth.
The Safety Systems That Were Supposed to Save Their Lives — and Didn’t
Federal workplace safety law does not leave it to a company’s discretion whether to protect workers from hydrogen sulfide. OSHA regulates H2S exposure as an air contaminant, and the agency’s respiratory protection standard requires monitors and breathing systems for workplaces that handle toxic gases like H2S at concentrations at or above 10 parts per million. The Texas Railroad Commission enforces its own H2S rules under state administrative code, requiring permits, contingency plans, and functional safety devices at H2S-affected sites. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality separately regulates ambient H2S emissions under a stricter standard — 0.08 parts per million, averaged over 30 minutes, in residential or commercial areas.
Every one of those regulatory regimes was supposed to prevent what happened at Foster D. Here is what was actually in place:
The H2S monitors were non-functional. A previous owner had installed monitors to detect the gas. By the time of the deaths, none of them worked. A former Aghorn employee with nearly 20 years at the company — who was also the father of the worker who died — stated that the monitors had been broken for an extended period and that he was not authorized to repair them. The Railroad Commission’s post-incident inspection noted that it was unclear whether the monitors worked.
No breathing apparatus was present. There was a station meant to hold emergency air packs. The station was empty. No self-contained breathing apparatus, no supplied-air respirator, no escape mask — nothing that would have allowed a worker to enter the building safely or to survive if the atmosphere turned lethal.
The ventilation system was broken. The two permanent ventilation fans that served the pump house had failed and were not repaired. The company purchased a portable fan to keep air moving. The fan was stolen. The company never replaced it. In a building where H2S gas can accumulate to lethal concentrations in minutes, the absence of working ventilation is not a maintenance oversight — it is the removal of the single most basic engineering control that prevents gas buildup in an enclosed space.
No buddy system. No after-hours notification procedure. The worker was dispatched to the site by an automated call-out system. There was no procedure in place to notify a supervisor that a maintenance issue had occurred after hours. The only person who knew where he was going was his wife. He entered the building alone, at night, with no one standing by outside, no one checking on him, and no rescue plan.
Personal monitors were unreliable by design. Workers at Aghorn carried personal H2S detectors, but the gas was so prevalent at the company’s sites that the detectors went off constantly. Workers routinely left them in their trucks to avoid the constant alarms. This is not a worker-carelessness problem — it is an engineering and management failure. When a site is so saturated with H2S that personal monitors become nuisance alarms, the correct response is to fix the site, not to let workers disable their only personal warning system. The personal monitor found in the victim’s truck was still sounding its alarm when firefighters arrived — an alarm that came from the cab of a truck parked outside the building, not from the worker’s body where it should have been worn, and not in time to prevent the entry that killed him.
OSHA’s Willful Violation — What It Means for a Civil Case
After the deaths, OSHA investigated and cited Aghorn Energy for two violations, one of which was classified as willful — the most serious classification OSHA can assign. A willful violation means the employer knowingly disregarded a known safety standard. It is not an accident. It is not carelessness. It is a conscious choice to ignore a rule that the employer knew existed and knew applied to its workplace.
OSHA classified Aghorn’s violation as “willful,” meaning the employer knowingly disregarded a known safety standard — a classification that permits referral to the U.S. Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution.
The proposed penalty was $105,253. OSHA also cited the company for failing to provide training and basic safety equipment like respirators, which the agency’s rules require for workplaces that handle toxic gases like H2S. The company is contesting the OSHA case.
In a civil wrongful death lawsuit, an OSHA willful violation is devastating evidence. Texas courts allow OSHA violations to be offered as evidence of negligence — and in some circumstances, as evidence of negligence per se, meaning the violation of the safety standard itself establishes the breach of duty. The willful classification goes further: it establishes not just that the company broke a rule, but that it knew about the rule and chose to break it anyway. That is the same mental state that Texas law requires for a finding of gross negligence — conscious indifference to an extreme risk — which opens the door to punitive damages.
The willful classification also permits OSHA to refer the case to the U.S. Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution. Whether a criminal investigation is underway has not been publicly confirmed. But the civil case does not wait for the criminal case. The families have the right to pursue their claims on their own timeline, and the OSHA willful citation — once finalized — is one of the strongest pieces of liability evidence they can put in front of a jury.
The Regulatory Enforcement Gap in the Permian Basin
The Foster D deaths did not happen in a regulatory vacuum. They happened in a system that is theoretically governed by three separate agencies — OSHA at the federal level, the Texas Railroad Commission at the state oil-and-gas level, and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality at the ambient air quality level — and that nonetheless allowed a pump house with 96,000 ppm H2S, non-functional monitors, no breathing equipment, and broken ventilation to operate on the fringe of a city of 100,000 people.
The numbers tell the story. Ector County, where Odessa sits, has 2,552 sites with hydrogen sulfide permits issued by the Texas Railroad Commission. About 800 of those sites were permitted in the decade before the Foster D deaths. Neighboring Andrews County has 4,037 permitted H2S sites — the most in the state. Between 2015 and 2019, the Railroad Commission recorded 126,000 inspections statewide at sites with H2S permits. In 96% of those inspections, the inspectors simply verified whether warning signs and fences were in place. They did not check whether the gas monitors worked. They did not test the air. They did not verify that breathing equipment was present. In Ector County specifically, 93% of inspections — 3,029 out of 3,249 — were limited to signs and fences. The Railroad Commission checked the actual safety monitoring equipment at only 200 sites in Ector County over a five-year period.
This is not an enforcement system. It is a paperwork exercise. And the gap between what the rules require and what the regulators actually inspect is exactly the gap that companies like Aghorn operate in — technically permitted, technically inspected, but never actually checked for the conditions that kill people.
The TCEQ separately tested the air for H2S in Odessa and other parts of the Permian Basin. Its tests found levels of H2S that apparently violated the agency’s 80 ppb standard in four locations — two in Seminole, one in Goldsmith, and one in Odessa. One of those locations was a tank battery on the west side of Odessa, about a half-mile from the Aghorn pump house, owned by a different oil company, sharing a fence line with surrounding houses. A TCEQ spokesman said the H2S levels did not pose a danger to residents but were high enough to cause strong odors. The agency closed three of the four cases without seeking a penalty.
The enforcement gap is not just a policy problem. In a wrongful death case, it is evidence. It establishes that the regulatory framework existed, that the company was supposed to comply with it, and that the compliance was never meaningfully verified by the agencies charged with verifying it. The failure of the regulators does not excuse the company — it makes the company’s own failures more stark, because the company was the last line of defense, and it chose not to hold the line.
Texas Wrongful Death Law After an Oilfield Toxic Death
Texas law provides two separate causes of action after a death caused by someone else’s negligence: a wrongful death claim and a survival claim. They are distinct, they belong to different plaintiffs, and they compensate different losses. A thorough case pleads both.
The wrongful death claim belongs to the surviving family members — the spouse, the children, and the parents of the person who died. Under the Texas Wrongful Death Act, these beneficiaries may recover for the losses they personally suffered: the financial support the decedent would have provided, the care and companionship the decedent would have given, and the emotional anguish of losing a family member. For the two children left behind in this case — ages 9 and 6 at the time — the wrongful death claim includes the loss of both parents’ financial support, guidance, love, and presence across the entirety of their upbringing and beyond.
The survival claim belongs to the estate of the decedent. Under the Texas Survival Statute, the estate steps into the shoes of the person who died and may recover for the pain, suffering, and mental anguish the decedent experienced between the injury and death — the window of conscious suffering before the person lost awareness. In a hydrogen sulfide death at 96,000 ppm, that window is short but medically supportable. At that concentration, olfactory paralysis occurs nearly instantaneously, and collapse follows within seconds. But between the first breath of the lethal atmosphere and the loss of consciousness, there is a period of hypoxic distress — the body’s tissues are being starved of oxygen at the cellular level, and the brain registers that deprivation before it shuts down. A board-certified occupational medicine physician or toxicologist can opine on the mechanism and duration of that suffering, and that testimony is what supports the survival claim.
The statute of limitations. In Texas, a wrongful death claim must generally be filed within two years of the date of death. This is the deadline set by the Texas statute of limitations for wrongful death actions, and it is unforgiving — miss it, and the claim is gone, no matter how strong the evidence. There are limited exceptions, but they are narrow and must be examined case by case. The two-year clock is the reason that evidence preservation and legal representation must begin immediately, not after the family has had time to grieve.
Modified comparative negligence. Texas follows a modified comparative negligence rule with a 51% bar. A plaintiff may recover damages only if they are not more than 50% at fault. If the plaintiff is found to be 51% or more at fault, they recover nothing. If the plaintiff is found to be 50% or less at fault, their recovery is reduced by their percentage of fault. This rule is the engine behind the defense strategy in this case — Aghorn has already filed a legal response blaming the victim’s father for “guiding” the victim’s wife to the pump house, and the defense can be expected to argue that the worker assumed the risk by entering the building without his personal monitor. We will address that defense and its weaknesses below.
The Workers’ Compensation Non-Subscriber Fork
Texas is the only state in the nation that allows employers to opt out of the workers’ compensation system. An employer that chooses not to carry workers’ compensation insurance is called a “non-subscriber,” and the non-subscriber doctrine fundamentally changes the legal landscape for an injured worker or, in a fatal case, for the worker’s family.
If Aghorn Energy was a workers’ compensation subscriber — meaning it carried standard workers’ comp insurance — then the exclusive remedy rule bars a negligence suit against the employer directly. The family’s recovery from the employer would be limited to the death benefits provided by the workers’ comp system, which are capped by statute and do not include pain and suffering or punitive damages. In that scenario, the real case would be against third parties: the contractors who failed to maintain the monitors, the parts supplier, the monitor manufacturer — defendants who are not shielded by the comp bar.
If Aghorn was a non-subscriber — meaning it opted out of the workers’ comp system — then the exclusive remedy defense is gone. The employer can be sued directly for negligence, and the common-law defenses that normally protect employers in injury cases are stripped away. A non-subscriber employer in Texas cannot raise the defense of contributory negligence, cannot raise the defense of assumption of risk, and cannot raise the defense that a co-worker’s negligence caused the injury. The only defense left to a non-subscriber is to prove that the employee was 100% at fault — a burden so steep that it is virtually impossible to meet in a case where the employer allowed monitors to sit broken, ventilation to remain non-functional, breathing equipment to be absent, and a worker to be dispatched alone into a known H2S environment at night.
Determining whether Aghorn was a subscriber or a non-subscriber is one of the first things we investigate in any Texas oilfield death. It is the fork in the road that determines the entire architecture of the case. Our workplace accident practice handles both paths — the third-party claim against contractors and manufacturers when the employer is a subscriber, and the direct-negligence claim against the employer when it is a non-subscriber. The workers’ compensation page on our site explains the non-subscriber doctrine in more detail.
Gross Negligence and Punitive Damages in Texas
Texas law allows punitive damages — called exemplary damages in the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code — but only upon a finding of gross negligence, proven by clear and convincing evidence. Gross negligence in Texas means an act or omission involving both (1) an extreme degree of risk, considering the probability and magnitude of the potential harm to others, and (2) actual awareness of the risk by the defendant, who nevertheless proceeded with conscious indifference to the rights, safety, or welfare of others.
The facts of the Foster D case are a textbook of gross negligence:
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Extreme risk: Hydrogen sulfide at 96,000 ppm in an enclosed building is an extreme risk — the gas is 137 times the rapidly fatal concentration. The magnitude of the potential harm is death. The probability of harm, given the broken monitors, the broken ventilation, the absence of breathing equipment, and the chronic leaks in the pumps, approaches certainty.
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Actual awareness: A former employee with nearly 20 years at the company testified that the building was “always gassy in there.” The pumps were chronic failures — “water would be pouring out of them.” The monitors had been broken for an extended period. The ventilation fans were broken. The portable fan was stolen and never replaced. The station for breathing equipment was empty. These are not conditions that developed overnight. They were known to the company over an extended period. The OSHA willful classification — which requires a knowing disregard of a known safety standard — is independent corroboration of the same mental state.
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Conscious indifference: The company had every opportunity to fix these conditions. It chose not to. It did not repair the monitors. It did not repair the ventilation. It did not replace the stolen portable fan. It did not purchase breathing apparatus. It did not implement an after-hours notification procedure. It dispatched a worker alone, at night, into a known H2S environment, with no buddy system and no rescue plan. Each of these omissions is a choice — a choice to accept the risk rather than spend the money to eliminate it.
Texas imposes statutory caps on exemplary damages, generally tied to the defendant’s net worth. The specific cap calculation should be confirmed against the current version of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code, but the structural point is this: punitive damages are available in this case, the evidence supports them strongly, and the OSHA willful classification is the single most powerful piece of evidence supporting the conscious-indifference element.
The Comparative Responsibility Defense — and Why It Fails
Aghorn’s legal filing blames the worker’s father — a former Aghorn employee — for “guiding” the worker’s wife to the pump house instead of warning her to stay away. The filing says the father and his wife “continued to guide her through the property” and “unfortunately guided her to the water station pump house where a pump had blown out and was emitting H2S.”
This is a comparative responsibility defense. Under Texas’s modified comparative negligence rule, the defense will attempt to assign a percentage of fault to the deceased and to the family members who were on the phone with her, reducing the family’s recovery by that percentage or, if the percentage exceeds 50%, barring recovery entirely.
The defense is weak, and here is why:
The father was not at the site. He was in New Mexico, on vacation. He was on the phone with his daughter-in-law, helping her find the site because he knew the layout from his years of working there. He was not present. He could not see the conditions. He could not smell the gas. He could not assess the danger. He was providing directions, not authorizing entry into a hazardous atmosphere.
The father was not authorized to repair the gas meters. He had told investigators that the monitors were broken and that he was not permitted to fix them. The responsibility for the non-functional monitors — the very safety system that would have warned the worker’s wife of the danger — rests with the company, not with a pumper who was told to leave the monitors alone.
The site had no warnings. The Railroad Commission cited Aghorn for failing to have signs at the entrance to the lease. The site was dark. The pump house was unlit. There was no fence, no warning sign, no barrier, no lighting — nothing that would communicate to a person arriving at the site that the building contained a lethal atmosphere. A non-employee spouse arriving at an unmarked, unlit oilfield site in the dark has no way to know that the building her husband entered is filled with a gas that kills in seconds.
The company created the hazard. The H2S-saturated water, the broken monitors, the broken ventilation, the absent breathing equipment, the leaking pumps, the absence of an after-hours notification procedure — every condition that made the site lethal was created or maintained by the company. Texas law does not allow a defendant who created a lethal hazard to escape liability by blaming the victim for not recognizing the hazard the defendant failed to warn about.
The “assumption of risk” defense is likely unavailable. If Aghorn was a workers’ compensation non-subscriber, the assumption-of-risk defense is stripped by statute. Even if Aghorn was a subscriber and the claim is against third parties, Texas’s comparative negligence rule — not a pure assumption-of-risk bar — governs, and the factual record strongly supports assigning the overwhelming majority of fault to the company.
The comparative responsibility defense in this case is a tactic designed to do two things: reduce the dollar value of the case by assigning fault to the family, and fracture family unity by pitting the father against the widow’s family. It is a common defense play in wrongful death cases, and it is exactly the kind of maneuver that Lupe Peña — who spent years on the defense side — can anticipate and counter because he has run it himself.
The Evidence Clock — What Exists, Who Holds It, How Fast It Dies
Every piece of evidence in this case is on a clock. Some of it is already gone. Some of it is dying. Some of it will survive only if someone demands it in writing before the retention period expires. The preservation letter — a formal demand that the company and its contractors freeze all relevant evidence — is the first thing that goes out the day a family calls us. Not after the funeral. Not after the insurance company calls. The day you call.
Here is the evidence, system by system:
The H2S monitor units and their calibration logs. These are the physical devices that were supposed to detect the gas and did not. They establish that the detection equipment was non-functional and for how long — central to both the gross negligence claim and the regulatory violation. The physical monitors may have been replaced after the incident. The calibration logs are paper or digital records that can be overwritten, discarded, or “lost.” Immediate inspection demand and a spoliation letter are required. Who holds it: Aghorn Energy. How fast it can die: the physical units can be swapped; the logs can be discarded at any time absent a hold.
The maintenance records for the three water-circulation pumps. These demonstrate the known recurring failures — the “water would be pouring out of them” testimony — and the company’s failure to effect permanent repairs. Small operators often lack systematic record retention. Records may be incomplete, altered, or destroyed. Expedited discovery and a document hold are mandatory. Who holds it: Aghorn Energy. How fast it can die: no fixed statutory retention for a small operator’s maintenance records; they can be discarded at any time.
The OSHA investigation file, including the willful citation narrative. Federal agency findings of willful disregard are powerful liability evidence and may include witness statements, site photographs, and air-sampling data. OSHA files are obtainable through the Freedom of Information Act, but processing can take months. A concurrent subpoena in civil litigation is faster and more complete. Who holds it: OSHA. How fast it can die: the federal file is durable, but witness memories degrade and the file may not capture everything the investigator observed.
The Texas Railroad Commission inspection reports and citation file. The state regulator’s post-incident findings — no air packs present, unclear monitor status, failure to maintain safety devices — corroborate OSHA’s willful classification. These are public records but may be partially redacted. A civil subpoena reaches the unredacted versions. Who holds it: the Railroad Commission. How fast it can die: the public record is durable, but the underlying investigation materials may be subject to state records retention schedules.
The automated dispatch system records. The call-out log for the night of October 26, 2019, shows the after-hours notification system that dispatched the worker solo with no supervisor escalation. This is central to the negligent-procedure claim. Dispatch system data may be overwritten on regular cycles. Who holds it: Aghorn Energy and potentially its software vendor. How fast it can die: data may be overwritten on the next system cycle. A preservation letter to Aghorn and its software vendor must go out immediately.
The phone records. The call between the worker’s wife and the worker’s father and his wife reconstructs the timeline of her arrival, her statements, and the duration of the call. It refutes Aghorn’s comparative-responsibility defense. Carrier retention periods are typically 12 to 18 months. By the time litigation begins, these records may already be partially aged. Who holds it: the phone carriers. How fast it can die: 12 to 18 months from the date of the call. Subpoena immediately.
The 911 call recording and the Ector County Sheriff’s Office incident report. First-responder observations of H2S levels above 100 ppm, the alarm from the personal monitor found in the truck cab, and scene conditions are all documented here. These records are generally retained, but audio quality degrades. Who holds it: Ector County Sheriff’s Office and the 911 dispatch center. How fast it can die: generally retained but quality degrades; obtain through a public information request and civil subpoena.
The ventilation fan units and records of the stolen portable fan. Physical evidence that the two permanent fans were broken and the replacement was never purchased. This supports the conscious-indifference narrative. The fans may have been repaired or replaced post-incident. Who holds it: Aghorn Energy. How fast it can die: physical equipment can be repaired or replaced at any time. A site inspection and equipment seizure via court order may be necessary if the equipment is still available.
Aghorn’s training records and H2S safety program documentation. The Railroad Commission cited Aghorn for delayed turnover of training logs. The absence of training supports the negligent-training claim and the OSHA willful classification. If these records exist at all, they are paper records with no systematic retention. Who holds it: Aghorn Energy. How fast it can die: expedited discovery is essential.
The failed pump component. In the pending action against the parts supplier, the physical component that leaked is the central product. It must be preserved for failure analysis. Chain of custody must be established. If the part has been discarded or repaired, spoliation sanctions may apply. Who holds it: potentially Aghorn, potentially the parts supplier. How fast it can die: if discarded or repaired, the evidence is gone. Immediate preservation demand is critical.
The personnel file of the worker’s father. This 20-year employee’s file may contain documented safety complaints, internal communications about gas conditions, and evidence that he was not authorized to repair gas meters — all of which refutes Aghorn’s comparative-responsibility defense. Employment records are frequently purged post-separation. Who holds it: Aghorn Energy’s HR department. How fast it can die: preservation demand to Aghorn’s HR must go out immediately.
When evidence disappears after a preservation letter has been sent, the law provides remedies. A court may give an adverse-inference instruction — telling the jury they may assume the missing evidence was as bad as the plaintiff says it was. The court may impose sanctions. In some cases, the destruction of evidence after notice is itself a separate claim. The bar for the harshest sanctions is high, but the leverage begins the moment the letter is on file.
What a Dual Wrongful Death Case Is Worth
This is a dual wrongful death case — two people killed, two survival claims, two orphaned children who were present at the scene, and an OSHA willful-violation classification that supports both liability and punitive damages. The case value range we assess, based on the documented facts and Texas law, runs from approximately $8,000,000 on the low end to $40,000,000 on the high end.
The low end reflects a conservative scenario: a trial in Ector County, where the jury pool is historically industry-friendly, with comparative-responsibility arguments reducing the recovery, and the uncertainty of collecting a full judgment against a small independent operator like Aghorn. The high end reflects a trial in Harris County, where the jury pool is more diverse and plaintiff-favorable, with successful gross-negligence findings supporting punitive damages, the emotional devastation of two orphaned children present at the scene, the OSHA willful-violation classification as liability leverage, and the addition of products-liability and contractor defendants with separate insurance coverage.
The primary constraint on value is not the strength of the liability evidence — which is extraordinary — but the collectibility of any judgment. Aghorn’s asset base and insurance limits are the gating factor. The parts supplier and contractor defendants may carry commercial general liability and products coverage that materially expands the recovery pool, which is why identifying every defendant with separate coverage is as important as proving the underlying negligence.
Here is how the damages are built:
Economic damages — objectively calculable money losses — include the lost earning capacity of both decedents over their remaining work-life expectancy, the lost financial support the children would have received, funeral expenses, and the value of the household services both parents provided. A forensic economist projects these losses using worklife expectancy tables derived from federal labor data, fringe-benefit multipliers (benefits run roughly 30% on top of wages for a typical private-sector worker, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics), and present-value discount rates. For the worker — a 44-year-old employed oilfield pumper with a stable work history — the lost earning capacity is calculated across the years he would have remained in the labor force. For his wife — a 37-year-old non-employee spouse — the lost household services are valued by the replacement-cost method, using federal time-use data to determine the hours of childcare, cooking, driving, and household management she would have provided, multiplied by the market wage for each task.
Non-economic damages — the human losses no receipt can measure — include the pain and mental anguish each decedent experienced before death (the survival claim), the loss of companionship and parental guidance the children suffered (the wrongful death claim), and the emotional anguish of the surviving family members. The worker’s survival claim includes the hypoxic distress he experienced between entering the lethal atmosphere and losing consciousness. His wife’s survival claim includes the terror of walking into a lethal concentration while conscious — her final words, “Oh, my God,” are an evidentiary anchor for pre-death mental anguish that a jury can feel in the bone.
Punitive damages — meant to punish and deter — are supported by the OSHA willful classification, the 137-times-fatal gas concentration, the documented non-functional monitors, the broken ventilation, the absent breathing equipment, and the prior employee reports of persistent gas. This evidence meets the Texas gross-negligence standard of conscious indifference to an extreme risk. Texas imposes statutory caps on exemplary damages, generally tied to the defendant’s net worth, and the specific calculation should be confirmed against the current statute.
The children as damages multiplier. Two children, ages 9 and 6, were present at the scene. They waited in a running car while their parents lay dead inside a building they could not see. They lost both parents in a single night. The orphaning of two young children is a damages multiplier of the highest order — not because the law puts a price tag on a parent’s love, but because the loss of parental guidance, financial support, and emotional nurturing across the entirety of a child’s upbringing is the most concrete and devastating loss a wrongful death case can present. A jury that sees two children who were sitting in a car while their parents died in a gas-filled building is a jury that understands what was taken.
The case value analysis above is an honest assessment based on the documented facts and Texas law. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. What a case like this is actually worth depends on the venue, the jury, the strength of the evidence at trial, the collectibility of the defendants, and the skill of the lawyers on both sides. What we can tell you is that the liability evidence in this case — the OSHA willful violation, the 96,000 ppm concentration, the broken monitors, the broken ventilation, the absent breathing equipment, the prior employee reports — is as strong as any oilfield toxic death case we have seen.
The Insurance Adjuster’s Playbook in an Oilfield Death Case
The insurance adjuster and the defense lawyer have a playbook for cases like this. We know it because Lupe Peña used to run it. Here are the plays and the counters:
Play 1: The fast settlement check. Within days of the death, a check may arrive — sometimes accompanied by a release document that, if signed, extinguishes the family’s right to sue. The amount will seem substantial to a grieving family. It will be a fraction of what the case is worth. The counter: do not sign anything, do not cash any check, do not accept any payment from the company or its insurer without speaking to a lawyer first. A release signed in the first weeks after a death, when the family is in shock and the full scope of the loss is not yet clear, is the insurance industry’s single most profitable move.
Play 2: The recorded statement. Someone friendly will call to “check on the family” and ask the family to “just tell us what happened” on a recording. The recording is built to be quoted against the family later — to establish that the family “felt okay,” to lock in a timeline that favors the defense, or to elicit a statement that the worker “always left his monitor in the truck.” The counter: decline the recorded statement. You are not required to give one. Anything you say can and will be used to reduce the value of your case. When the insurance company wants your story, they can get it through formal discovery, on the record, with your lawyer present.
Play 3: Blame the worker. The defense will argue that the worker assumed the risk by entering the building without his personal monitor, that he knew the site was gassy, and that he should have refused to enter. The counter: the worker was dispatched by an automated system to a site the company controlled. The company’s monitors were broken. The company’s ventilation was broken. The company’s breathing equipment was absent. The company’s training was deficient. The personal monitor was a nuisance alarm because the company allowed the site to be so saturated with gas that the monitors were useless. Every condition that made the site lethal was created and maintained by the company. The worker did not assume a risk that the company was legally required to eliminate.
Play 4: Blame the family. Aghorn has already filed this play — blaming the worker’s father for “guiding” the wife to the site. The counter: the father was in another state, on the phone, providing directions to a site he no longer worked at. He could not see the conditions. He was not authorized to repair the monitors. The site had no warnings, no lighting, no barriers. The company, not the father, created the hazard and failed to warn about it.
Play 5: The “independent contractor” dodge. If any of the workers who serviced the monitors or the ventilation were contractors, the company may argue that the contractor is responsible, not the company. The counter: the company owned the site, controlled the site, and had a non-delegable duty to maintain safe conditions. Under the OSHA multi-employer worksite doctrine, the controlling employer bears responsibility for hazards it had the power to correct. The contractors may be additional defendants, not replacements for the company.
Play 6: Delay. The insurance company may string the family along for months, requesting documents, scheduling examinations, and promising a fair resolution that never comes — all while the statute of limitations runs and the evidence degrades. The counter: move fast. Preserve evidence immediately. File suit before the deadline. Put the case in the hands of a lawyer who knows that delay is a defense tactic, not a courtesy.
How a Case Like This Is Actually Built
Here is the chronological walk of how a dual wrongful death case in the Permian Basin is built, from the first phone call to resolution:
Week one. The preservation letter goes out — to Aghorn Energy, to every contractor who worked at the site, to the parts supplier, to the software vendor that runs the dispatch system, and to the phone carriers. The letter names every category of evidence: the monitors, the calibration logs, the maintenance records, the dispatch records, the phone records, the 911 recordings, the ventilation equipment, the training records, the personnel files, and the failed pump component. The letter puts every recipient on notice that the evidence must be preserved and that destruction will result in sanctions.
Weeks one through four. The OSHA file is requested through FOIA and, simultaneously, through a civil subpoena. The Railroad Commission file is requested through the Texas Public Information Act and a civil subpoena. The 911 recording and the Ector County Sheriff’s Office incident report are requested through a public information request. The phone records are subpoenaed from the carriers before the 12-to-18-month retention window closes.
Months one through three. The personal representative of each estate is appointed — the one person Texas law authorizes to bring the family’s case. We handle that appointment. The workers’ compensation status of Aghorn is determined — subscriber or non-subscriber — which determines the architecture of the complaint. The complaint is filed. The defendants are served. The venue fight begins — whether the case stays in Harris County or is transferred to Ector County is the single most consequential procedural battle.
Months three through twelve. Discovery. The defendants produce the maintenance records, the training records, the dispatch records, the personnel files, the monitor calibration logs, and the franchise/contractual documents that reveal the corporate structure and the insurance coverage. The depositions begin — the safety director, the foreman, the CEO, the contractors, the parts supplier’s representatives. Under oath, the company’s decision-makers explain why the monitors were not repaired, why the ventilation was not fixed, why the breathing equipment was not purchased, and why a worker was dispatched alone into a known H2S environment at night.
Months six through eighteen. The expert witnesses are retained and deployed. A board-certified occupational medicine physician or toxicologist opines on the mechanism of death and the window of pre-death conscious suffering. A certified industrial hygienist reconstructs the atmospheric conditions inside the pump house — modeling the H2S concentration, the airflow patterns, and the accumulation that would have occurred with broken ventilation. A petroleum engineering expert addresses the industry-standard practices for H2S site management and the deviation from those standards. A forensic economist calculates the lost earning capacity of both decedents, the lost household services, the fringe benefits, and the present value of the total economic loss.
Months twelve through twenty-four. The case moves toward mediation or trial. A Stowers-style demand strategy in Texas requires identifying the applicable liability limits of each defendant’s insurance coverage and crafting a settlement demand within or exceeding those limits to trigger the insurer’s duty to accept. If the insurer refuses and a verdict exceeds policy limits, the defendant may assign bad-faith claims against its own carrier. Mediation should be deferred until the OSHA willful citation is finalized and the regulatory citation file is in hand, because those are the strongest settlement-leverage instruments.
The number at the end is built from all of it. The preservation demand that froze the logs. The subpoena that pulled the dispatch records. The deposition where the safety director admitted the monitors had been broken for a year. The expert who modeled the gas concentration and testified that death would have occurred within seconds. The economist who calculated the lost earnings and household services. The life-care planner who projected the cost of raising two children without their parents. Every piece of evidence, every deposition, every expert report — they all feed into the number that the jury sees or that the insurer agrees to pay.
The First 72 Hours — What to Do and What Not to Do
If you are in the first hours or days after an oilfield death, here is what matters and what does not:
Do get medical attention for anyone who was at the scene. Even if the children appear unharmed, they were in a vehicle near a lethal H2S atmosphere. H2S exposure at sub-lethal concentrations can cause delayed pulmonary edema, neurological effects, and respiratory irritation. A medical evaluation creates a contemporaneous record and ensures that no one is silently suffering an exposure injury.
Do not sign anything. No release, no waiver, no settlement agreement, no authorization for the company to access medical records, no statement to the insurance adjuster. If someone puts a document in front of you and tells you it is routine, do not sign it. Call a lawyer first.
Do not give a recorded statement. The insurance company will call. They will sound sympathetic. They will ask you to “just tell us what happened.” Decline. You are not obligated to provide a recorded statement to the other side’s insurance company. Anything you say will be transcribed, taken out of context, and used to reduce the value of your case.
Do not post on social media. Do not post about the incident, the company, the conditions at the site, or your family’s emotional state. The insurance company and its investigators monitor social media. A photograph, a comment, or a check-in can be taken out of context and used to undermine your case.
Do preserve everything you have. The worker’s personal H2S monitor. His phone and its call history. His truck and its contents. Any photographs taken at the scene. Any text messages or emails about the dispatch call. Any communications with Aghorn employees. These items are evidence, and they need to be preserved in their original condition.
Do request the official reports. The Ector County Sheriff’s Office incident report, the 911 call recording, the OSHA investigation file, and the Railroad Commission inspection report are all obtainable through public records requests. But the window for obtaining them is not unlimited, and the quality of the records degrades over time.
Do call a lawyer. The preservation letter that freezes the evidence can only go out after a lawyer is retained. The subpoena that pulls the phone records before they expire can only be issued through counsel. The appointment of the personal representative — the person authorized to bring the wrongful death claim — requires a court order. Every day that passes without a lawyer is a day the evidence degrades, the retention periods expire, and the defense builds its case. The call is free. The consultation is free. We do not get paid unless we win.
The Children
Two children, ages 9 and 6, were sitting in a running car on the night their parents died. They were close enough to the pump house that the air around them measured above 100 ppm H2S. They waited, not understanding why neither parent was coming back to the car. They are the center of this case — not as a legal theory, but as the human beings whose lives were permanently altered by a company’s decision to let safety equipment sit broken while it continued to operate a site full of gas that kills in seconds.
The children’s long-term welfare — emotional, educational, and financial — is the foreground of every decision in this case. A guardianship and structured-settlement discussion should be initiated early to protect their interests. The financial recovery from this case is, in practical terms, the only resource these children will have to replace the support, guidance, and care their parents would have provided. A structured settlement — designed by a life-care planner and a forensic economist, approved by the court, and funded by the settlement or verdict — can provide guaranteed income across the children’s upbringing, their education, and their transition to adulthood.
The children’s presence at the scene also raises a potential claim for negligent infliction of emotional distress. Texas recognizes this claim in limited circumstances, typically requiring that the plaintiff was in the zone of danger of physical impact or witnessed the injury to a close family member. The children were at the site. They were in a zone of H2S exposure. They lost both parents in a single event. Whether the claim is viable depends on the specific facts and the jurisdiction’s current case law, but it is a theory worth exploring with the family’s lawyer.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long do I have to file a wrongful death lawsuit in Texas after an oilfield death?
Texas generally requires that a wrongful death claim be filed within two years of the date of death. This is the statutory deadline, and it is unforgiving — if the deadline passes, the claim is extinguished regardless of how strong the evidence is. There are limited exceptions, but they are narrow. The two-year clock is one of the primary reasons to contact a lawyer immediately. The evidence is also degrading during that two-year window — phone records expire, memories fade, physical equipment is repaired or replaced. The deadline is not the only clock running; the evidence clock is faster.
Can I sue the employer if my loved one was killed at an oilfield site in Texas?
It depends on whether the employer carried workers’ compensation insurance. Texas is the only state that allows employers to opt out of workers’ comp. If the employer was a subscriber, the workers’ comp system is generally the exclusive remedy against the employer, and the real case is against third parties — contractors, equipment manufacturers, parts suppliers. If the employer was a non-subscriber, the employer can be sued directly, and nearly all of its common-law defenses are stripped away. Determining the employer’s subscriber status is one of the first things we investigate.
What does an OSHA willful violation mean for a wrongful death case?
An OSHA willful violation means the employer knowingly disregarded a known safety standard. In a civil wrongful death case, this is powerful evidence of negligence and, in Texas, can support a finding of gross negligence — which opens the door to punitive damages. The willful classification also permits referral to the Department of Justice for potential criminal prosecution. The civil case does not wait for the criminal case; the families can pursue their claims on their own timeline, and the OSHA willful citation is one of the strongest pieces of liability evidence they can present to a jury.
How much is an oilfield hydrogen sulfide wrongful death case worth?
The value depends on the venue, the strength of the evidence, the collectibility of the defendants, and the skill of the lawyers. Based on the documented facts of this case — two deaths, two orphaned children present at the scene, an OSHA willful violation, H2S at 96,000 ppm, broken monitors, broken ventilation, no breathing equipment, and prior employee reports of persistent gas — the case value range runs from approximately $8,000,000 to $40,000,000. The primary constraint is not the liability evidence but the collectibility of the judgment against a small independent operator. Identifying additional defendants with separate insurance coverage is critical to maximizing recovery. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes.
What if the company says my loved one was partly at fault?
Texas follows a modified comparative negligence rule with a 51% bar. The defense will attempt to assign fault to the deceased — for entering the building without a personal monitor, for not recognizing the danger, or for family members who were on the phone with the victim’s wife. But every condition that made the site lethal was created and maintained by the company. The company’s monitors were broken. The company’s ventilation was broken. The company’s breathing equipment was absent. The site had no warnings. Under Texas law, a defendant who creates a lethal hazard cannot escape liability by blaming the victim for not recognizing the hazard the defendant failed to warn about.
What evidence needs to be preserved after an oilfield H2S death?
The critical evidence includes: the H2S monitor units and their calibration logs, the maintenance records for the pumps, the OSHA investigation file, the Railroad Commission inspection reports, the automated dispatch system records, the phone records from the night of the incident, the 911 call recording, the sheriff’s office incident report, the ventilation fan units, the company’s training records, the failed pump component, and the personnel files of any employees who reported the gas conditions. A preservation letter — a formal demand that all evidence be frozen — must go out immediately. Every day that passes without a preservation letter is a day the evidence can be legally destroyed.
Why would the case be filed in Houston instead of Odessa?
The venue — where the case is filed — is one of the most consequential procedural decisions in a Texas wrongful death case. Harris County (Houston) offers a more diverse jury pool that is generally more receptive to plaintiff claims. Ector County (Odessa) has a jury pool that is historically industry-friendly, given the oil industry’s dominance in the local economy. The defense in this case is seeking to transfer the case to Ector County, where they expect a more favorable jury. The venue fight is the single most important procedural battle, and it is one of the first things we address.
Can the CEO of the oil company be held personally liable?
Under Texas law, individual corporate officers can face personal liability for gross negligence if the evidence shows they consciously disregarded an extreme risk. The CEO of a company that operates H2S sites has authority over safety capital expenditures — the decision to repair or not repair monitors, to purchase or not purchase breathing equipment, to fix or not fix ventilation. If the evidence shows the CEO was aware of the conditions at the site and chose not to address them, the gross negligence standard may be met. The OSHA willful classification is evidence of the same mental state — knowing disregard of a known safety standard.
What if I signed a document after the death?
If you signed a release, a settlement agreement, a waiver, or any other document provided by the company or its insurance company, contact a lawyer immediately. In Texas, releases obtained under certain circumstances — duress, lack of capacity, fraud, or in some cases within a short window after a death — may be challenged. Do not assume that a document you signed is final. Let a lawyer review it and determine whether it can be challenged.
How do I afford a lawyer for a wrongful death case?
We work on contingency. That means we do not charge an hourly fee. We advance the costs of the case — the filing fees, the expert witness fees, the deposition costs, the records fees — and we are paid only if we recover money for the family. The fee is a percentage of the recovery — 33.33% before trial and 40% if the case goes to trial. If we do not recover, you do not owe us attorney’s fees. The consultation is free. The call is free. We serve families across Texas, and we serve your family fully in Spanish if that is the language you are most comfortable in. Hablamos Español.
Why This Firm — and What the First Call Costs
Ralph Manginello has spent more than 27 years in Texas courtrooms, including federal court. He was a journalist before he was a lawyer, which means he knows how to find the story the evidence tells and how to tell it to a jury in plain language. He is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Houston Bar Association, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He leads the active $10 million hazing lawsuit against Pi Kappa Phi at the University of Houston — a case that, like this one, involves a family’s fight for accountability after a preventable death. His full background is here.
Lupe Peña is a former insurance-defense attorney. He spent years inside a national defense firm — the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue claims from injured people. He knows how the other side values a claim, how it sets reserves in the first 48 hours, how it selects IME doctors, how it conducts surveillance, and how it uses delay as a weapon. He now uses that knowledge for injured families. He is fluent in Spanish and conducts full client consultations in Spanish without an interpreter. A third-generation Texan with family roots to the King Ranch, he was born, raised, and lives in Sugar Land. His full background is here.
The firm has recovered more than $50 million for clients, including a $5 million-plus brain-injury settlement, a $3.8 million-plus amputation settlement, a $2.5 million-plus truck-crash recovery, and a $2 million-plus maritime back-injury settlement. These are the firm’s documented results. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. What we can tell you is that the same methods that produced those results — the immediate evidence preservation, the insider knowledge of insurance tactics, the refusal to accept the first offer, the willingness to take a case to trial — are the methods we bring to every oilfield wrongful death case we handle.
The first call costs nothing. The consultation costs nothing. We do not get paid unless we win your case. The fee is 33.33% before trial and 40% if the case goes to trial. If we do not recover, you do not owe us attorney’s fees. Call 1-888-ATTY-911 — any hour, any day. Our staff is live, 24/7. We are not an answering service. We have offices in Houston and Austin and serve clients across Texas, including the Permian Basin communities of Odessa, Midland, Andrews, and the surrounding oilfield corridors.
If your family has been affected by an oilfield hydrogen sulfide death — at Foster D or anywhere in the Permian Basin — the evidence is already degrading. The phone records are aging. The maintenance records can be discarded. The physical equipment can be repaired or replaced. The statute of limitations is running. The day you call is the day the preservation letter goes out, the evidence freezes, and the fight for accountability begins. Call 1-888-ATTY-911. Contact us here. We are ready.
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