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Jul 18, 2026

Odessa College Construction Fatality & Wrongful Death Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Midland-Odessa Permian Basin, We Pursue the General Contractor of Record and the Premises Owner for the Jobsite Safety Failures Behind a Subcontractor’s Death on a Controlled Construction Site, We Demand the OSHA Investigation File, Site Safety Plans and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Non-Subscriber Law Strips the Employer’s Defenses When Workers’ Comp Coverage Is Missing, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Construction Death Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ for Injury Victims, the Governmental-Entity Notice Clock Is Short and May Already Be Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Construction Fatality: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Subcontractor Death at the Odessa College Site Someone you love went to work at a construction site in Odessa on a Tuesday in June and did not come home. You are reading this at a hour when no one should have to be awake, trying to understand what happened and what you are supposed to do next. We are going to tell you everything we know about the legal landscape your family is now standing in — not to pressure you, but because the decisions made in the first days after a construction death are the ones that decide whether the truth comes out or disappears under the dust of a job site that is already being cleaned up. A subcontractor was killed on June 23 at the Odessa College construction project. Cerris Builders is the general contractor of record. Odessa College and Cerris Builders issued a joint statement. The site was secured. Work was suspended in the affected area. OSHA is investigating. No details about the mechanism of death, the identity of the deceased, or the subcontractor’s employer have been released. That is where the public record stops — and where your family’s fight for the full story begins. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle construction accident and wrongful death cases across Texas. What follows is what the law actually says, what the companies are already doing, and what you need to know before you…

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Jul 18, 2026

Intoxicated Manslaughter on FM 554 — Abraham Adrian Vargas, 31, of Odessa Killed When an Intoxicated Driver Ran a Stop Sign at 60 MPH and Sent Both Pickup Trucks Rolling in Ector County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer, the Dram Shop That Over-Served Before Dawn, and Any Employer in Course-and-Scope, We Pull the Ford F-150 EDR Black-Box Data Before the Vehicle Is Scrapped and Preserve Dram Shop Surveillance Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Survival Statute With Gross-Negligence Exemplary Damages Under the State’s 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Wrongful Death: When an Intoxicated Driver Runs a Stop Sign and Kills The person who told you about this crash probably said it fast — the way people deliver news they know will break something inside you. A stop sign on FM 554. A Ford F-150 that never stopped. A Nissan Frontier that had the right of way. And now someone you love is gone — a 31-year-old from Odessa who was driving through a rural intersection in the pre-dawn dark of the Permian Basin when a truck came through it at sixty miles an hour. You are reading this because the man who ran that stop sign was arrested ten months later. You heard the charge — Intoxicated Manslaughter — and the bond amount, and maybe you felt something between fury and disbelief that twenty-five thousand dollars was the price of walking out the same day he was booked. What we want you to understand before anything else is this: the criminal charge is not your case. It is the State of Texas’s case. It will not pay your family. It will not replace the income, the presence, the life that was taken at that intersection on February 3, 2024. Your case is separate, it is civil, and under Texas law it belongs to you — the surviving spouse, the children, the parents of the person who was killed. We handle these cases. Not this specific case — we are writing to you as the resource your…

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Jul 18, 2026

HF Sinclair Refinery Explosion in Artesia, New Mexico: Industrial Accident & Burn-Injury Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Refinery Operator and the Contractors Behind the Blast, OSHA Process Safety Management and EPA Risk Management Plan Compliance Failures, Four Years of Documented Emissions Complaints That Went Unanswered, the Prior-Notice Foundation for Punitive Damages, We Secure the SCADA Process Data, Alarm Logs and Mechanical Integrity Records Before They Overwrite, Blast Burns, Toxic Inhalation and Amputation Injuries ($3.8M+ Recovered, $50M+ Total by the Firm), Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, New Mexico Pure Comparative Negligence and Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities, Workers’ Compensation Is a Floor Not a Ceiling — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Artesia Refinery Explosion: Your Legal Rights After the HF Sinclair Navajo Refinery Blast If you are reading this from Artesia — from a hospital room in Carlsbad or Roswell, from a kitchen table where the windows still rattled from the blast, from a phone in your hand while your child coughs in the next room — you are not reading this casually. Something tore through your life when that refinery exploded. You may be hurt. Someone you love may be hurt. You may be wondering what your family breathed that day, because nobody in authority has told you. And you may have already heard from someone at the company, or from an adjuster, or from a workers’ compensation representative who made the whole thing sound simple. It is not simple. And what you do in the first weeks after an explosion like this can decide what the rest of your life looks like. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle refinery explosion cases, toxic exposure claims, and catastrophic workplace injury litigation. We are writing this for you: the worker who was inside the fence line when the unit let go, the contractor who was doing maintenance on the wrong shift, the parent whose child sits in a classroom across the highway from the refinery, and the family that has been breathing the air in this town for years and just watched a plume rise over it. This page is not a brochure. It is the full legal…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Police Pursuit Crash in Midland, Texas: The June 1 High-Speed Chase Through Permian Basin Corridors That Killed James Baker and Anderson Aguilar — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Pursuit-Crash Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Fleeing Driver and the Law Enforcement Agency Behind the Pursuit, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Tort Claims Act Liability, We Preserve the Dashcam, Bodycam and Radio Dispatch Recordings Before the 30-to-90-Day Overwrite Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Police Pursuit Crash: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Fleeing Driver and a Police Pursuit Turned Fatal If you are reading this because someone you love was killed in the June 1, 2026 pursuit crash in Midland — whether you are family to James Baker, family to Anderson Aguilar, or someone close to them trying to understand what happens next — we want you to hear the most important thing first, before anything else: the police video that shows what happened during that pursuit is on a clock. Dashcam footage, body-worn camera recordings, and radio dispatch traffic are the single most decisive evidence in any pursuit case, and the agency that holds them is also, potentially, a defendant. Standard retention cycles overwrite that footage in 30 to 90 days. The documentary examining this crash may surface information the families have not yet seen — but acting on evidence preservation cannot wait for a broadcast. The police recordings that could determine whether the pursuit was justified will be destroyed by routine policy if no one demands they be saved. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful-death and catastrophic-injury cases in Texas, including pursuit crashes where a fleeing driver and a pursuing law enforcement agency are both in the picture. We are writing this for one purpose: to give you the education, the governing law, the evidence clocks, and the honest case-value framework you need to make decisions while the proof still exists. We are not…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Gas Plant Explosion in Pecos, Reeves County, TX — Reynaldo Garcia, 57, and Angel Alaffa, 30, of Rio Grande City Killed in the I-20 Blast: Industrial Explosion & Workplace Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Gas Plant Operators and Contractors at These Facilities, We Secure the SCADA Data, Gas Detection Logs and Process Hazard Analysis Records Before Digital Systems Purge Them, OSHA Process Safety Management and the CSB Investigation Framework, the Texas Non-Subscriber Doctrine That Strips Employer Defenses When Workers’ Comp Coverage Is Absent, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Scene Evidence Is Cleared Within Days and the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Gas Plant Explosion Takes Two Lives in the Permian Basin If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home from Pecos. Maybe it was your husband, your father, your son, your brother — a man who left Rio Grande City to work at a gas plant along Interstate 20 in West Texas, five hundred miles from the family he was providing for. And on a Saturday morning in October 2023, at 10:14 a.m., something went catastrophically wrong at 631 W I-20, and two men — Reynaldo Garcia, 57, and Angel Alaffa, 30 — were killed. We are writing this for you. Not for a general audience — for the family that is sitting at a kitchen table in Rio Grande City, in Starr County, trying to understand what happened and what to do next. You may have already received a call from the employer’s insurance company. You may have been told that workers’ compensation is your only option. You may have been asked to sign something. You may have been told the cause is “still under investigation” and that you should wait. Here is the first thing you need to hear: industrial explosions are rarely accidents. They are the predictable result of someone’s failure to maintain equipment, follow safety protocols, or heed warning signs that were there long before the morning of October 2023. And under Texas law — which is different from every other state in the country — you may have far more…

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Jul 18, 2026

Mobile IV Therapy Wrongful Death & Medical Malpractice in Odessa, Ector County — 30-Year-Old Ashly Flores Died After a Nurse Infused Nearly a Liter of IV Fluid in Under 30 Minutes With No Patient Screening or Monitoring, Causing Fluid Overload, Seizure and Cardiac Arrest, Attorney911 Pursues the Mobile IV Wellness Companies and the Nurses They Deploy, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Anchor Causation in the Death Certificate and Preserve the IV Equipment, Corporate Safety Protocols and Nurse Training Records on a 30-Day Evidence Clock, Texas Medical-Liability Law Requires an Expert Report on the Nursing Standard of Care and the Wrongful-Death Act Gives the Spouse, Children and Parents Each an Independent Claim, Gross-Negligence Standard for Punitive Damages, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Mobile IV Therapy Wrongful Death: When a Wellness Treatment Turns Fatal If you are reading this because someone you love died after a mobile IV therapy session — in Odessa, in the Permian Basin, anywhere in Texas — you are probably sitting with a fact that makes no sense. A nurse came to your home. The treatment was supposed to make your loved one feel better. Instead, she had a seizure. Her heart stopped. She was taken to Medical Center Hospital, and within hours she was gone. And the death certificate does not say “natural causes” or “unknown.” It says fluid overload. It says rapid infusion of intravenous solution. A government-issued document, signed by a medical professional who examined your loved one, says the IV killed her. That document is the most powerful piece of evidence in your case. And your case is real. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases across Texas, and we are writing this page because what happened in Odessa on April 2, 2023, is not an isolated tragedy. Mobile IV therapy businesses have spread across Texas — from Houston to Austin to Midland-Odessa — offering vitamin drips, hydration, weight-loss consultations, and hormone therapy in people’s living rooms, often with thin safety protocols and thinner insurance. When the nurse who arrives at your door skips the basic screening that every nursing program in the country teaches on day one, the business that sent her is responsible…

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Jul 18, 2026

Three Injured When the HF Sinclair Navajo Refinery Exploded in Artesia, New Mexico on October 31 — Industrial Explosion & Burn-Injury Attorneys, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Refiner and the Contractor Stack Behind the Blast and the Toxic Smoke Over the Community, OSHA Process Safety Management Under 29 CFR 1910.119, We Secure the PSM Records, DCS Process Data and Air-Monitoring Logs Before the 30-to-90-Day Surveillance Overwrite, New Mexico Strict Liability for Ultrahazardous Activities, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Artesia Refinery Explosion: What Happened at HF Sinclair’s Navajo Refinery on October 31, 2025, and What Your Rights Are Now If you were inside the Navajo Refinery on October 31, 2025, when the unit let go and the fire rolled through, you already know more about what an industrial explosion does to a human body than any lawyer can tell you. You felt the pressure wave before you heard the sound. You smelled the hydrocarbons before you saw the flash. And if you are reading this from a hospital bed in Artesia, Carlsbad, or Roswell — or from a kitchen table where someone you love is not sitting anymore — you are in the hours and days that decide everything about what comes next. Not just medically. Legally. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that handles refinery explosions, catastrophic industrial injuries, and toxic-exposure cases, and we are writing this for one person: you. The worker who was burned. The contractor who was thrown. The family member of someone who was not carried out. Or the parent in Artesia who watched thick black smoke settle over their children’s school the morning after Halloween and did not know whether it was safe to let them walk outside. Here is the first thing you need to hear: what happened at the Navajo Refinery was not an act of God. A refinery is not a weather event. It is a facility that handles enormous quantities of…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Officer-Involved Shooting in Northwest Odessa, TX: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Families Bereaved When Law-Enforcement Firearm Discharge Takes a Life — We Pursue the Governmental Entity and the Officer Under Section 1983’s Fourth Amendment Excessive-Force Standard and Texas’s Tort Claims Act Waiver of Governmental Immunity, We Send Spoliation Letters to Preserve Body-Camera Footage, Dispatch Audio and the Officer’s Personnel File Before the 30-Day Overwrite Window Closes and Oilfield-Transient Witnesses Relocate, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Governmental Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Officer-Involved Shooting in Odessa, Texas: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Fatal Police Encounter If you are reading this page, someone in your family is gone. A law enforcement officer used deadly force in northwest Odessa, and the person you love did not come home. You may be standing in a hallway outside a hospital room, sitting at a kitchen table at 3 a.m. with a phone full of missed calls, or staring at a television screen waiting for the sheriff’s office to tell you what happened. The information you are getting is probably incomplete. It may be changing. And the one thing nobody has told you is that while you are grieving, evidence is already disappearing. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases across Texas, and we build civil rights cases against law enforcement agencies that use force unreasonably. We are not telling you your case is worth a specific dollar amount. We cannot — not yet, because the facts are still emerging and the headline is all anyone has. What we can tell you is exactly how the law works, what the deadlines are, what evidence is on a clock right now, and what the family of someone killed in an officer-involved shooting should do in the first hours and days to protect the truth. That is what this page is. Take what you need from it. Call us when you are ready. What We Know and What We…

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Jul 18, 2026

Rosa Emma Mendoza Robles, 81, Killed When a Kenworth W9 Commercial Truck Struck Her Vehicle at the FM 866 and SH 302 Intersection in Ector County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Commercial Carrier Behind the Oilfield Rig and Every Liable Party, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pull the ECM Black-Box Data and ELD Logs Before the Overwrite, Post-Accident Drug Testing Under Federal Trucking Rules, an 80,000-Pound Class 8 Truck Carries Momentum That Turns a Rural Crossroad Into a Fatal Impact Zone on the Permian Basin’s Oilfield Corridors, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and the 51 Percent Comparative-Fault Bar, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful Death — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Ector County Commercial Truck Crash on SH 302: What the FM 866 Intersection Wrongful Death Means for Your Family If you found this page, you are likely sitting with a death that happened at a rural intersection in the Permian Basin, and you are trying to understand whether anyone besides the driver of that pickup is responsible — and whether the commercial truck that struck it carries a deeper accountability the first news report did not capture. We are going to tell you everything we know about crashes at this kind of intersection, in this kind of oilfield corridor, involving this kind of truck, under Texas law. Not a sales pitch. The actual law, the actual evidence clocks, the actual playbook the insurance company is already running, and an honest assessment of what a case like this is worth — and what it is not. An 81-year-old Odessa woman died Friday morning, May 15, 2026, after a collision at the intersection of Farm-to-Market Road 866 and State Highway 302 in rural northern Ector County. According to the preliminary Texas Department of Public Safety report, a 2001 Chevrolet Silverado traveling northbound on FM 866 failed to yield the right of way at the intersection and was struck on its passenger side by a westbound 2008 Kenworth W9 commercial truck towing a trailer. The woman was taken to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, where she was pronounced dead. DPS has characterized the crash as involving a failure to yield, and the investigation…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Loop 250 Rollover Ejection — Cheyenne Mansell, 21, Killed When a Pickup Veered Into the Median on South Loop 250 in Midland, Texas: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Wrongful-Death Cases Born on the Permian Basin’s High-Speed Loops, We Investigate the At-Fault Driver’s Speed and Loss of Control and Pursue the Pickup Manufacturer When Roof Crush and Door-Latch Failure Turn a Survivable Rollover Into a Fatal Ejection, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Passenger-Ejection Deaths, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data and Inspect the Vehicle Before It Is Scrapped, Texas Wrongful-Death Law and the Comparative-Fault Rule Mean an Unbelted Passenger’s Family Still Has a Claim — the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Passenger Is Ejected in a Midland Rollover — Your Rights Under Texas Wrongful Death Law If you found this page because someone you love was killed in a rollover crash on Loop 250 or anywhere in Midland County, the first thing we need you to hear is simple and absolute: the seatbelt does not erase the driver’s fault. A back-seat passenger cannot prevent a driver from veering into a median at highway speed. The decision to speed, the loss of control, the rollover — those were the driver’s choices. Texas law does not bar recovery for an unbelted passenger. It may reduce the percentage of damages a jury assigns, but the driver’s negligence remains the primary cause, and the family’s right to hold that driver accountable does not disappear because a 21-year-old did not click a buckle. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin and the Midland County courts. This page is not about a case we have filed. It is a resource — the education, the governing law, the evidence clocks, and the honest evaluation of what a case like this is worth — for any family waking up to the reality that a pickup rolled over on a West Texas loop and someone they love did not come home. Everything that follows is written to give you the information you need at the moment you need it most: before the…

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