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Jul 17, 2026

Oilfield Accident & Wrongful Death on a Reeves County, Texas Frac Site: Edward Rodriguez, 45, Killed by a Pressurized Device Rupture at the ProPetro-Operated Permian Resources-Guthrie State D 132H Well Pad, a Second Worker’s Arm Injury May Require Amputation, OSHA Investigating — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Frac Operator, the Well-Site Operator and the Equipment Manufacturer Behind the Rupture, We Secure the Ruptured Device, the Frac Job Logs and the Pressure Data Before They Are Scrapped or Overwritten, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Corporate Claims Machine Values and Denies Oilfield Cases, Amputation ($3.8M+ Recovered) and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Non-Subscriber Doctrine: If the Employer Opted Out of Workers’ Comp It Faces Full Tort Liability With No Contributory-Negligence Defense, the Statute of Limitations Is Running and Physical Evidence Disappears Within Days — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Reeves County Oilfield Accident: One Dead, Two Injured at a ProPetro Frac Site on SH 285 If you found this page, you already know what happened on the night of January 27, 2025, eight miles south of Pecos on State Highway 285, at the Permian Resources–Guthrie State D 132H well site where ProPetro Services was running a hydraulic fracturing operation. A pressurized device ruptured. A 45-year-old man named Edward Rodriguez was killed — decapitated by the energy release. Two other workers were injured, one so badly he may lose an arm, the other treated for lesser injuries at Reeves Regional Hospital in Pecos before the most badly hurt was flown to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa, the regional trauma center more than an hour away. We are not going to pretend that what happened to your family is a statistic. A man went to work on a frac pad in the Delaware Basin and did not come home. Two other men were hurt beside him. And right now, while you are reading this at a kitchen table or a hospital waiting room, the evidence that would explain exactly what failed and why is disappearing — the ruptured device, the pressure data, the surveillance video, the maintenance records, the witnesses who will rotate to a different site next week. That evidence has a clock on it that runs faster than the two-year statute of limitations. The preservation letter that freezes those records has to go out in days, not months. The…

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Jul 17, 2026

Three Oilfield Workers Killed in Pulling Unit Explosion Near Rankin, Upton County, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the Well Operator and the Well-Service Contractor Behind the Permian Basin Blast, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Secure the Pulling Unit, Wellhead Equipment and Pressure-Control Records Before the Well Site Is Remediated and Evidence Is Scrapped, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Oilfield Fatalities, Texas Wrongful Death Claims and the Non-Subscriber Doctrine Removing the Contributory-Fault Defense Against Non-Subscribing Employers, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Three Workers Killed in a Pulling Unit Explosion Near Rankin — What Their Families Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love did not come home from the well site that Tuesday morning in 2015, we want you to understand something before anything else: the company that owned the well and the company that employed your loved one are already, right now, building their defense. The well operator and the contractor employer are two different companies, and each one is already pointing at the other. The choices you make in the next few days — what you sign, what you say, who you talk to — will shape everything that follows. We are writing this page so that when that phone rings, you already know what is true and what is a trap. Three men died on a pulling unit crew at a Parsley Energy well site near Rankin, in Upton County, Texas. A fourth worker on the site survived. The Upton County Sheriff’s Office responded. OSHA launched a federal fatality investigation. The well was owned by Parsley Energy of Midland. The men who died were employed by Mason Well Service Ltd. of Odessa, an independent contractor. That last sentence — two company names, one word “independent contractor” — is the single most important fact in this case, and it is the fact the companies are counting on you not understanding. We handle wrongful death claims and workplace accident cases across Texas, including the…

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Jul 17, 2026

Three Members of One Family Killed When a Pulling-Unit Rig Exploded 40 Miles South of Midland in Upton County, Texas — Arturo Martinez Sr., His Son Arturo Martinez Jr., and Son-in-Law Rojelio Salgado, a Fourth Worker Injured, Attorney911 Pursues the Well-Site Operator and Pulling-Unit Contractor Behind Permian Basin Oilfield Deaths, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve the Wellhead Components, Gas-Detection Logs, and OSHA Investigation File Before the Site Is Remediated, Texas Non-Subscriber Doctrine Exposes Employers Who Opt Out of Workers’ Comp to Full Tort Liability Without Contributory-Negligence Defenses, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Upton County Oil Rig Explosion: Three Family Members Killed on a Permian Basin Well-Servicing Rig If you are reading this, someone you love may not be coming home from the oil patch. Maybe you got the call at the kitchen table in Midland, or Rankin, or Odessa — the call every family in the Permian Basin dreads and somehow never fully prepares for. Three men from one family left for a pulling-unit job about forty miles south of Midland, and an explosion took all three of them. A fourth worker was injured. The family said they want answers, and they are right to demand them — but the window for getting those answers is already closing, faster than anyone has told you. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Texas oilfield wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe Peña sat inside a national insurance-defense firm and watched how adjusters and their software price claims like yours — and now he uses that knowledge for the families the insurance machine was built to pay as little as possible. We handle these cases in English or in Spanish, because the Permian Basin workforce is our community. If you are reading this at 2 a.m. with a phone full of missed calls from people who say they are “just checking on you,” this page is for you — and the consultation is free.…

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Jul 17, 2026

Frac Sand Truck Crashes & Wrongful Death in Midland’s Permian Basin: 26 Fatalities Since July on Rural Roads Built for Pickup Trucks Not 80,000-Pound Sand Haulers — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Oil Patch, We Pursue the Dispatching Carriers and Owner-Operator Shells Behind Undertrained Drivers Working 12-Hour Six-Day Shifts, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pull the ELD Records, Dispatch Telematics and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite Cycle Purges Them, FMCSA Hours-of-Service and the Oilfield Waiting-Time Exemption Carriers Exploit to Mask Driving Time as Off-Duty, Texas Gross-Negligence Standard for Punitive Damages, 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

Midland Frac Sand Truck Accidents: Permian Basin Oilfield Hauling Dangers, FMCSA Violations & Your Legal Rights If you are reading this page, someone you love may have been killed or badly hurt on a Permian Basin road — Highway 158, FM 1788, one of those two-lane farm-to-market stretches between the frac sand mines and the well sites that has become a de facto superhighway for 80,000-pound trucks. You may have gotten the call at 3 a.m. You may be sitting in a hospital waiting room in Midland or Odessa, or staring at a death certificate that says the cause was a commercial vehicle collision on a road that was never built to carry this kind of traffic. You may have already heard from an insurance adjuster who sounded sympathetic and wanted to help. We need you to hear this clearly before you talk to anyone: the conditions that killed your loved one are not inherent risks of a dangerous job. They are the results of choices made by companies that profit from the biggest oil boom in American history — choices about how long drivers stay behind the wheel, how much training they get before being dispatched onto unlit rural roads, and how much money is pulled out of the safety budget to feed the production schedule. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in Texas courtrooms, including federal court, a journalist before he was a lawyer, a competitor who hates losing. Lupe…

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Jul 17, 2026

Vacuum Truck Hit-and-Run at a Midland Restaurant Drive-Thru — Attorney911 Pursues the Oilfield Service Companies and Commercial Carriers Behind the Vacuum Trucks That Flee Permian Basin Crash Scenes, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve the Surveillance Footage, DOT-Number Capture and Scene Debris Before the 30-Day CCTV Overwrite Erases the Evidence, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Commercial Carrier Claims Machine Values and Denies Hit-and-Run Cases, 49 CFR 390-399 and Texas Negligence Per Se With Gross Negligence for Punitive Damages, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland Vacuum Truck Hit-and-Run: What You Need to Know Right Now You were sitting in a drive-thru lane in Midland, or you were working inside the restaurant, or you were parked nearby when a vacuum truck came through — a truck built for the oilfield, not for a drive-thru lane — and hit something. A structure, a car, maybe a person. And then the driver left. No stopping. No information exchanged. No checking whether anyone was hurt. That is the moment you are in right now, and what you do in the next few days may decide whether the people responsible are ever held accountable. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle commercial vehicle cases across Texas, and we are writing this for one person: the person in Midland who was at that drive-thru, whose car was damaged, whose business was disrupted, or whose family member was hurt — and who is wondering whether a hit-and-run driver in a commercial truck can ever be found and made to answer for what happened. The answer is yes, but the window is brutally short, and the evidence that identifies that truck is disappearing while you read this. Here is the first thing you need to understand: this is not a normal fender-bender. A vacuum truck is a commercial vehicle. It is registered to a company. It carries a DOT number. It operates under federal safety regulations. And the driver who fled violated not just the basic duty to…

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Jul 17, 2026

Fatal Freightliner Rollover on FM 1787, Midland County, Texas: 70-Year-Old Marco Antonio Zapata Killed in Single-Vehicle Truck Rollover — Attorney911 Pursues Every Cause When DPS Speed Findings May Mask Mechanical Failure, Road-Design Deficiency or Cargo-Shift Causation in a 17-Year-Old Freightliner, We Hold the Vehicle Manufacturer, the Operating Entity, the Cargo Loader and the Road-Design Authority Accountable, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Extract the ECM Black-Box Data Before It Overwrites and Preserve the Vehicle Before It Is Scrapped, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland County Freightliner Rollover on FM 1787: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Fatal Single-Vehicle Truck Crash If you are reading this because someone you love died in that Freightliner rollover on FM 1787, you are probably sitting with a Texas Department of Public Safety report that says one word — “speed” — and a feeling that there is more to this story. You are right to trust that feeling. What DPS wrote in those first hours is a preliminary assessment made at the side of a rural road, not a final determination of what killed your family member. And the single most important piece of evidence — the truck itself — is sitting in a tow yard or a salvage lot right now, on a clock that runs out faster than most people imagine. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle commercial truck and wrongful death cases across Texas, including the Permian Basin. We are writing this for one reason: so that the family of a man who died on a Farm-to-Market road in Midland County understands, before anyone from an insurance company calls, what their rights actually are, what evidence is already disappearing, and why the first story out of a crash scene is rarely the full story. Everything on this page is legal information, not legal advice. Past results depend on the facts of each case and do not guarantee future outcomes. But the information here is real, it is specific to Texas and…

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Jul 17, 2026

Fatal Sand Hauler Hit-and-Run on SH 329: John Mathew Bryant Dead After His Kia Struck the Rear of a Semi That Fled a Dark Crane County, Texas Highway Leaving Him in a Vehicle Fire, Attorney911 Pursues the Sand-Hauling Carrier and the Oilfield Dispatch Company Behind the Unidentified Truck, We Secure the Blue Paint Transfers, the Kia EDR Data and Oilfield Surveillance Before the Trailer Is Repainted and the 72-Hour Footage Overwrites, 49 CFR 393 Rear-Impact Guard and Reflectorization Standards, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With the Hit-and-Run Flight as Gross Negligence, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, $2.5M+ Truck-Crash Recovery and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Crane County Sand Hauler Hit-and-Run: SH 329 Fatal Crash, Evidence, and Texas Wrongful Death Rights It is after ten o’clock on a Monday night in early January, and State Highway 329 is what it always is at that hour in Crane County — a two-lane ribbon of dark pavement cutting through the Permian Basin with no streetlights, no shoulder lighting, nothing between the headlights and the horizon but flat West Texas darkness. A Kia Soul is traveling east. Ahead of it, somewhere in that darkness, is the back of a semi trailer — a sand hauler, the kind of truck that moves frac sand from rail depots to hydraulic fracturing well pads, the kind of truck that runs these roads day and night because the oilfield never stops. The Kia strikes the rear of that trailer. The car catches fire. The driver does not survive. And the semi truck — the one professional vehicle on that road built to stop, to check, to call for help, to render aid — pulls away and disappears into the same darkness it came from. If you are reading this, that driver was someone you love. And you are sitting with a grief that has been compounded by a fact that makes no sense to you: a professional truck driver, a person licensed and trained and regulated by the federal government, looked at a burning car with a person inside it and drove away. You are also sitting with a preliminary law-enforcement statement that…

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Jul 17, 2026

Wrongful Death of a Dawson County Sheriff’s Deputy Struck by Debris During a Traffic Stop Near Lamesa, Texas — Attorney911 Pursues the At-Fault Driver and the Commercial Carrier Behind an Unsecured Load on the Permian Basin Oilfield Corridor Where Sand-Haulers and Flatbeds Create a Recognized Roadside Hazard, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Line-of-Duty Death Claims, We Preserve the Dashcam, Body-Cam Footage, Physical Debris Evidence and ELD Data Before the Overwrite Cycles Clear Them, FMCSA Cargo-Securement Standards and the Texas Move Over Law, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions for Surviving Spouses, Children and Parents with No General Damages Cap Against Private Defendants — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Dawson County Deputy Killed by Debris Near Lamesa: What the Investigation Must Find and What the Family Needs to Know A deputy put on a uniform Tuesday morning in Dawson County and went to work on a highway that cuts through the southern edge of the Permian Basin. He conducted a traffic stop — one of the most routine things a law enforcement officer does — and he did not come home. Debris struck him during that stop, and the loss is now being investigated by the Texas Department of Public Safety. If you are reading this, you may be the deputy’s spouse, his parent, his child, his colleague, or the person trying to help his family make sense of what happens next. We are going to tell you exactly what we know, what we do not yet know, and what the law does — and does not — promise a family in this position. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death cases in Texas, and we have spent more than two decades in courtrooms fighting for families who lost someone to another party’s negligence. Ralph Manginello has been licensed in Texas since 1998 — 27 years of trial practice, including in federal court. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm before joining this side of the table, which means he knows from the inside how adjusters value claims, how they set reserves, and how they build delay tactics. We do not…

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Jul 17, 2026

Fatal Head-On Crash on FM 1053 Near SH 329 in Crane County, Texas — Three Children of an Ector County Sheriff’s Deputy Killed: Wrongful Death Attorneys Who Know Rural Permian Basin Highways, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate, Their Auto Liability Insurer and UM/UIM Coverage When the Other Driver Is Also Deceased, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful Death Cases, We Move to Preserve the DPS Crash Report, EDR Black-Box Data and Toxicology Results Before the Vehicles Are Scrapped, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Doctrine With the Comparative-Fault Rule and UM/UIM Stacking Across Household Vehicles, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Three Children, One Road, One Night — What Your Family Needs to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was killed on a rural West Texas highway — whether on FM 1053 near SH 329 in Crane County or on any of the two-lane farm-to-market roads that cut through the Permian Basin — you are in the worst hours of your life, and you are probably being told nothing by the people who owe you answers. The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating. The official crash report has not been completed. The other driver’s identity may not have been released. And in the silence, the evidence that would tell your family what actually happened is disappearing, day by day, on a clock the law set and the insurance company is counting on you not to know about. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death cases and catastrophic car accident claims across Texas. This page exists because a family in Crane County just lost three teenagers in a single head-on collision on the night of November 20, 2024, and the questions their community is asking — who can file, how long they have, where the money comes from when the other driver is also dead, what evidence is vanishing — are the same questions every family in this situation faces. We are not the lawyers on that case. We have taken no action on it. What follows is what…

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Jul 17, 2026

Hydrogen Sulfide Wrongful Death Attorneys near Odessa, Texas: Jacob and Natalee Dean Died When H2S Monitors Failed at a Permian Basin Oilfield Site — the Invisible Sour Gas That Paralyzes the Olfactory Nerve Before Knockdown and Death, Attorney911 Pursues Aghorn Operating, Its Corporate Officers and the Well-Service Contractors Behind Non-Functioning Detectors and Falsified Well-Integrity Tests, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Secure the Monitor Calibration Records, Alarm Logs and OSHA Files Before They Are Destroyed Now That the Criminal Case Has Closed and the Statute of Limitations on a 2019 Death Demands Immediate Analysis, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, OSHA Respiratory Protection Standards and Railroad Commission H2S Safety Requirements Set the Safety Floor That Was Breached, Texas Gross-Negligence Doctrine Gates Punitive Damages for Conscious Indifference to a Known Lethal Hazard, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

What Happened Near Odessa — and Why a $1.4 Million Fine Is Not the End of the Story If you are reading this because someone you love went to work in the Permian Basin and did not come home — or because you read about a company pleading guilty and a vice president sentenced to five months and you thought, is that all? — you are in the right place, and the answer is no, that is not all. Not even close. On October 26, 2019, an oilfield worker named Jacob Dean responded to an alarm at an Aghorn Operating Inc. facility near Odessa, Texas. He went to check a pump. The hydrogen sulfide monitors at the facility — the machines whose entire purpose is to scream before the gas kills — were not working. Jacob was exposed to lethal levels of H2S and died. His wife, Natalee Dean, entered the facility looking for him. She was also killed by the gas. In April 2025, more than five years later, Aghorn Operating Inc. pleaded guilty to Clean Air Act negligent endangerment charges and an OSHA willful violation count. The company’s vice president, Trent Day, pleaded guilty to negligent endangerment and was sentenced to five months in prison. A second company, Kodiak Roustabout Inc., pleaded guilty to a felony Safe Drinking Water Act violation for falsifying oil well integrity tests at Aghorn injection wells. Combined criminal fines: $1.4 million. “Operators who gravely endanger and kill others and those who lie to…

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