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Jul 18, 2026

H2S Wrongful Death at Production Waste Solutions’ Oilfield Waste Facility Near Orla, TX: Attorney911 Holds the Operator and Corporate Parent Stack When Hydrogen Sulfide, Heavier Than Air and Lethal in Confined Sump Pits Where It Accumulates, Overcomes a Worker Assigned to Skim Sludge Without H2S Awareness Training, We Pursue Every Liable Party from the Employer to the Facility Owner to Any Staffing Contractor, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Oilfield Deaths, We Secure the OSHA Citation File, H2S Atmospheric Monitor Logs, Confined-Space Entry Permits and Training Records Before the Evidence Is Lost, Texas Workers’ Compensation Subscriber or Non-Subscriber Status Controls the Claim: Gross Negligence for Conscious Indifference to a Known Lethal Hazard, or Stripped Common-Law Defenses Under the Texas Wrongful Death Act and Survival Statute, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

H2S Death at an Oilfield Waste Facility Near Orla, Texas — What the Family of a Worker Killed by Hydrogen Sulfide Needs to Know If someone you love was killed at an oilfield facility in the Permian Basin, you are reading this at a kitchen table or in a truck cab, trying to understand how a person goes to work and does not come home. We are going to tell you exactly what happened at the Channing waste treatment facility near Orla, Texas, in September 2022 — what the federal government found, what it means in plain language, and what your family’s rights are under Texas law. This is not a sales pitch. This is the information we would want if we were sitting where you are sitting. A worker at Production Waste Solutions’ Channing oil and gas waste treatment and disposal facility near Orla was skimming and suctioning sludge water and oil byproducts from a sump pit when he was overcome by hydrogen sulfide gas and died. The federal government investigated and cited the company for six safety violations. The total fine was $39,064. That number — less than the price of a used pickup truck — is what the government assessed for a human life. It is not compensation to your family. It is a regulatory penalty, and your rights are entirely separate from it. What Happened at the Channing Facility Near Orla Orla, Texas sits in Reeves County, in the Delaware Basin sub-region of the Permian Basin…

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Jul 18, 2026

Auto-Pedestrian First-Responder Strike in Lubbock, Lubbock County, Texas: Firefighter Matt Dawson’s Traumatic Brain Injury and the Deaths of Lt. Eric Hill and Officer Nicholas Reyna on an Icy Emergency Scene — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Texas Move Over Law Claims, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver and the Insurer Behind Them When Three Catastrophic Claims Compete for One Policy, We Secure the EDR Black-Box Data and Body-Worn Camera Footage Before It Overwrites, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, TBI ($5M+ Recovered) and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Driver Strikes a First Responder at an Emergency Scene in Lubbock, Texas If you are reading this because you or someone you love was struck by a vehicle while working an emergency scene — or because you are a first responder in Lubbock who wants to understand what your rights actually are before the worst happens — you are in the right place. We are going to tell you everything we know about how these cases work in Texas, from the statute that makes striking a parked emergency vehicle a violation of law, to the medical reality of a traumatic brain injury that does not show up on a standard CT scan, to the insurance math that determines whether a catastrophic injury is fully compensated or quietly underpaid. On January 11, 2020, a Lubbock Fire Rescue firefighter was struck by a vehicle while working the scene of a car accident in icy conditions on a Lubbock roadway. The same incident killed Lieutenant Eric Hill of Lubbock Fire Rescue and Police Officer Nicholas Reyna of the Lubbock Police Department. The firefighter who survived suffered a traumatic brain injury and multiple fractures throughout his body, requiring extensive surgical intervention and prolonged rehabilitation at a Colorado facility. In August 2021, his community honored his sacrifice with a mortgage-free home through West Texas Hero Homes and community partners. That home was earned. The legal accountability for what happened on that icy road is a separate matter — and it is the one…

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Jul 18, 2026

Kawasaki Disease Misdiagnosis and Pediatric Coronary Aneurysms: When Infant Wesley Long Was Discharged from Odessa Regional Medical Center with Acute Viral Syndrome Despite Meeting Four of Five Kawasaki Diagnostic Criteria in Odessa, Ector County, TX, Attorney911 Pursues the Community Hospital Systems and Treating Physicians Behind the Standard-of-Care Breach, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve the Chart, the Imaging, the Lab Work and the Consultation Notes Before Records Are Amended, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Operates, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Catastrophic Injury Victims, the AHA Diagnostic Criteria and the IVIG Treatment Window Lost to the Delay Under Texas Medical-Liability Law — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Doctor Misses Kawasaki Disease and Your Child’s Heart Pays for It If you are reading this because your child was sent home from an emergency room with a diagnosis of “acute viral syndrome” when the real condition was Kawasaki disease — and the delay meant your baby’s coronary arteries were permanently damaged — you already know the worst part of this. It is not the medicine. It is the moment you learned that someone saw the signs, someone else overruled them, and the clock ran out on your child while you trusted the people in the white coats. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle medical malpractice and catastrophic child injury cases across Texas, and we are writing this for one person: the parent sitting at a kitchen table in Midland, Odessa, or anywhere in the Permian Basin who just found out their baby has coronary artery aneurysms because a doctor discharged them with the wrong diagnosis. What follows is everything we know about how these cases work, what the law demands, what the defense will try, and what your child’s lifetime of cardiac care is going to cost — because knowing all of it is how you protect your child’s future. What Happened at Odessa Regional Medical Center A Midland County couple brought their infant son to Odessa Regional Medical Center on December 27, 2023. The baby had a rash, a fever, and a swollen tongue, ear, and neck. His primary care physician…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Pedestrian Hit-and-Run on Permian Basin Roads: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Ector County, We Pursue the At-Fault Drivers and the Fleeing Driver Who Violated the Duty to Stop and Render Aid, We Pull the Crash-Scene Data, Surveillance Footage and Cell Records Before the Overwrite Cycle, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine with Punitive Exposure for Conscious Indifference, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal Pedestrian 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

An Odessa Man Is Dead After Two Vehicles Struck Him and One Driver Drove Away — What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this, someone you love was killed on a road in Ector County. Two vehicles hit him. One of the drivers stopped. The other drove away and left him there. You are standing in the worst moment your family has ever faced, and the questions are already piling on top of the grief: Who was the person who fled? Will they ever be found? Is the driver who stayed at fault, or just the one who did not run? What are you supposed to do now, while the scene is still fresh and the evidence is still alive? We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We are a trial firm that takes Texas wrongful death cases, and we are writing this for one person: you, the family member who just lost someone on an Ector County road and is trying to figure out what comes next. Everything in this page is here to protect you, arm you, and tell you the truth about what you are walking into — because the insurance adjusters and the defense lawyers are already working, and the evidence that would hold whoever did this accountable is dying on a clock that started the moment the vehicles left the scene. We will not pretend to know exactly what happened. We were not there. But we know what these…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Stop-Sign Crash at Treva and Greenlee: Two Dead in Odessa, Ector County, Texas When an At-Fault Driver Ran a Stop Sign and T-Boned the Acura TL Carrying Adrian Andres Arzate Alvidrez and Alfredo Acosta Bejarano — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, to These Wrongful-Death Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Insurer and Investigate Honda Motor Company’s Acura Crashworthiness, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Fatal-Crash Claims, We Pull the EDR Black-Box Data and Cell-Phone Records Before the Overwrite, We Preserve Hospital Toxicology Specimens Before They Are Destroyed, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With the Stowers Duty That Forces Insurers to Settle Within Limits When Liability Is Clear, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Two People Are Dead After a Driver Ran a Stop Sign at Treva and Greenlee in Odessa — Here Is What the Law Says and What Your Family Needs to Do Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was killed at the intersection of Treva Avenue and Greenlee Avenue on the evening of April 8, 2026, we want you to hear this first: your loved ones did nothing wrong. The Texas Department of Public Safety has already confirmed the cause. An Acura TL was traveling westbound on Treva Avenue, where it had the right-of-way, when a Mitsubishi Outlander traveling southbound on Greenlee Avenue disregarded a stop sign and crashed into it. The Acura’s driver and passenger — two people who were simply crossing an intersection they had every legal right to cross — were pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Mitsubishi walked away with minor injuries and was taken to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa. That asymmetry — two people dead, the at-fault driver treated and released — tells you something about the physics of this crash that matters to the case. We will get to that. But right now, the thing you need to know is that critical evidence is already disappearing. Surveillance footage from homes and businesses near that intersection is overwriting itself on a loop measured in days, not months. Blood specimens that may have been drawn from the at-fault driver at Medical Center Hospital are typically destroyed within seven…

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Jul 18, 2026

Toxic H2S Gas Exposure from Texas Oil & Gas Wells: Attorney911 Pursues the Lease Operators and Storage-Tank Companies Behind 54,000+ Hazardous Wells Where Hydrogen Sulfide at 100+ ppm Leaks Invisible Near Homes and Schools — a Gas That Causes Olfactory Fatigue So Residents Cannot Smell It at Deadly Concentrations, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Pull the Form H-9 Filings, Air-Monitoring Logs and Tank Maintenance Records Before the Retention Clock Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Neurological Damage and Chronic Exposure Injuries, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims, Texas Toxic Tort Claims Including Nuisance, Trespass and Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities, the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Texas H2S Gas Exposure from Oil and Gas Wells: Your Legal Rights When the Air Around Your Home Is Poisoned You looked up your address on the map, and a colored dot sat on top of your home — or your child’s school. The headaches that have been coming for months, the nausea you could never explain, the dizziness your wife mentioned at dinner last week. You are reading this at 2 a.m. because the connection just clicked, and you want to know whether the invisible gas seeping from that well a quarter-mile away is what has been making your family sick. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a Texas trial firm, and this page is written for one person: you, sitting in your kitchen in the dark, trying to understand what hydrogen sulfide is, what it does to a human body, and whether the law gives you any power against the company that put a poison well next to your house and the state agency that never bothered to tell you. Everything that follows is the work product of our trial team — the law, the medicine, the regulatory failures, the evidence we would pull first, the defenses the oil company will raise, and the honest answer to what a case like this is worth. We hold nothing back, because the more you know before you call, the stronger you are. What the Investigation Found: 54,000-Plus Hazardous Wells Across Texas A year-long investigation mapped…

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Jul 18, 2026

Toxic Gas Release & Respiratory Injury Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues Targa Resources and the Midstream Operators When a Toxic Gas Release Goes Unreported Near Midland, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Secure the TCEQ Investigation File, Emissions Monitoring Data and Internal Communications Before the 30-to-90-Day Retention Cycle Purges Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Toxic-Exposure Cases, H2S Exposure Means Respiratory Injury, Chemical Pneumonitis and Latent Disease Risk — When the Operator Stays Silent the Exposure Window Stays Open, Texas Gross-Negligence Law Opens the Door to Punitive Damages for Knowing Reporting Delays, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, the Limitations Clock Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Targa Gas Release — When the Silence Was the Harm You smelled something. Or maybe you didn’t — and that’s the part that frightens you most. Maybe your children were playing in the yard that afternoon, or you were at work inside a building a half-mile from the plant, and the air carried something you couldn’t see. Maybe you felt the headache, the nausea, the burning in your throat, and you told yourself it was the West Texas dust or the heat. Maybe you only learned later — from a neighbor, from a news alert, from a state regulator’s announcement — that a significant gas release had happened at a Targa Resources facility near your home, and that the company had not reported it promptly. That delay is not a paperwork technicality. It is the reason you were still breathing that air when you should have been told to leave. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle toxic tort and industrial disaster cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin. 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 people exactly like you — before he came to this side of the table. He conducts full consultations in Spanish without an interpreter. We know the Permian Basin because we have lived and worked in Texas our entire careers. We…

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Jul 18, 2026

Fatal Midland County Motorcycle Crash Claims Odessa Rider William Smedley — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Wrong-Way, No-Headlight Collisions on Fairgrounds Road, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner and the Insurers Behind a 2013 Hyundai Sonata That Crossed Into Oncoming Lanes in Darkness, We Download the EDR Black-Box Data Before the Vehicle Is Salvaged and Preserve Cell-Phone Records Before the Carrier Purges Them, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With Exemplary Damages for Gross Negligence, 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

Fatal Midland County Motorcycle Crash: Wrong-Way Driver Without Headlights Kills Odessa Man If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on Fairgrounds Road on the night of May 29, we want you to hear this first: the reported facts say he was doing everything right. He was in his lane. He was wearing a helmet. He was riding a motorcycle he had chosen, on a road he knew, in the direction he was supposed to be going. And a car came across the center line in the dark with its lights off and took his life. That is not an accident. That is a chain of choices someone else made, and Texas law gives the family the right to hold every person and every policy that contributed to those choices accountable. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle motorcycle accident cases and wrongful death claims across Texas. This page is not a sales pitch. It is a full, honest explanation of what happened on that road, what the law allows your family to recover, what evidence is dying right now while the investigation is still open, and what the insurance company is already doing to minimize what your loved one’s life was worth. Read it when you can. Call us when you are ready. The consultation is free, and we do not get paid unless we win. What Happened on Fairgrounds Road The Texas Department of Public Safety has released the basic facts,…

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Jul 18, 2026

Orthodontic Wire Migrated From a Boy’s Mouth Into His Brain After His Pain Was Dismissed in Odessa, Ector County, TX, Air-Ambulanced 140 Miles for Neurosurgery: Dental Malpractice Attorneys at Attorney911, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve the Surgically Removed Wire, CT Imaging and Treatment Records Before the 120-Day Expert Report Deadline Under Texas Medical Liability Law, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, TBI ($5M+ Recovered), Products Liability Against the Wire Manufacturer That Can Bypass Texas Medical Liability Damage Caps, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When the Orthodontist Said Everything Was Fine — and a Wire Was Burrowing Into Your Child’s Brain You took your child to get his braces adjusted. A dental technician did the work. Your son said his cheek hurt, said something was poking him. The orthodontist told you everything was fine. You trusted that. Parents trust that. Then the swelling started. The headaches. The nausea. You watched your child change over weeks — and nobody connected it to the wire until the morning he woke up unable to speak clearly, vomiting, and an urgent care clinic sent him straight to the hospital. A CT scan showed what no parent is ever prepared to see: a long segment of orthodontic wire extending from your child’s oral cavity into the middle cranial fossa — the compartment of the skull that holds the temporal lobes and the pituitary gland. Your child had a penetrating brain injury. An intraparenchymal hemorrhage. A seizure disorder. And he was intubated and flown 140 miles northeast to the Level I trauma center at University Medical Center in Lubbock for emergency neurosurgery, because the hospital in Odessa could not handle what was inside his head. That is the moment you are in — or one close to it. You are sitting with medical bills multiplying, a child on anti-seizure medication who is not the same kid he was before the appointment, and a growing suspicion that the orthodontist who told you “everything is fine” should have looked. We are Attorney911,…

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Jul 18, 2026

Hydrogen Sulfide Wrongful Death in Odessa, Texas: Jacob Dean Was Overcome by H2S Checking a Pump, Then Natalee Dean Was Overcome Searching for Him — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue Oil and Gas Operators and Service Contractors Like Aghorn Operating and Kodiak Roustabout for Uncontrolled Sour-Gas Emissions and Falsified Well Tests, Clean Air Act Negligent Endangerment Convictions and OSHA Willful Violations Admissible as Gross Negligence in Civil Wrongful-Death Claims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the H2S Monitoring Data, Gas Detection Records and Alarm Calibration Logs Before the Retention Cycle Erases Them, Texas Gross Negligence That Defeats the Workers’ Compensation Exclusive-Remedy Bar and Opens Exemplary Damages, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Hydrogen Sulfide Killed Two People at an Odessa Oil Facility — What Their Families Need to Know The Permian Basin runs on sour gas. The crude that comes up from the wells around Odessa carries hydrogen sulfide — a poison so fast and so quiet that a man can walk out to check a pump and never walk back. And when his wife comes looking for him, she does not walk back either. That is not a freak accident. That is the exact pattern hydrogen sulfide has followed in the oilfield for decades, and the companies that run these facilities know it down to their bones. Two people died that way in Odessa on October 26, 2019. An oilfield worker went to check a pump at a company facility and was overcome by H2S. His wife came looking for him when he stopped answering his phone. She was overcome too. Both of them died at the facility. Now, more than five years later, two West Texas companies and a company executive have been criminally convicted for it. The operator and a service company were ordered to pay a combined $1.4 million in criminal fines. The executive was sentenced to five months in prison. The Justice Department said it plainly: “If they had done what the law requires, Jacob and Natalee might still be with us today. The Justice Department can’t stand by when employers put workers at such risk.” That statement is from a public official whose job is to…

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