Dallas Apartment Gas-Explosion Lawyers — Oak Cliff Wrongful-Death, Burn & Blast-Injury Attorneys: Attorney911’s Ralph Manginello Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Experience and a BP Texas City Explosion-Litigation Pedigree, With Former Insurance-Defense Insider Lupe Peña, to Hold Atmos Energy and the Drilling and Soil-Testing Contractors Accountable for the East Ninth Street Blast That Killed Marisol and Erick Perez and Sylvia Collins — $50M+ Recovered, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
On the afternoon of May 28, a soil-test crew was boring into the ground beside the Clyde apartments on East Ninth Street, in the Bishop Arts area of Oak Cliff, when it struck a natural gas line. Minutes later the building exploded. Marisol Perez and her young son Erick were killed. So was Sylvia Collins, a neighbor and a longtime Dallas County precinct chair. Marisol's nine-year-old daughter, Vanessa, survived — and woke into a life without her mother and brother. Five more people were hurt. The National Transportation Safety Board sent a team, because this was not a kitchen accident or a frayed wire. A company put a drill into the ground next to people's homes, and a gas line that was supposed to be located and protected was not. We name them on purpose, because the companies behind this will spend the coming months turning Marisol, Erick, and Sylvia into "the incident," and turning a preventable explosion into "an unfortunate event." We are Attorney911 (The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC), principal office in Houston, and we built our practice on cases exactly like this one — including a litigation history that reaches the BP Texas City refinery explosion. Before we ask anything of a survivor or a grieving family, this page arms you: who is responsible when a gas line is struck and a building comes down, what Texas law requires of the companies that dig and the utility that owns the pipe, what evidence is already being shaped, and…
