Five Oilfield Workers Killed When an Empty Tractor-Trailer Jackknifed Into a Passenger Van on the Spine Road at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Oil-Field Trucking Disaster That Claimed Five Lives on Arctic Ice, We Pursue the Trucking Companies and Oil-Field Contractors Behind Ice-Road Collisions, an Empty Trailer on Permafrost Gravel Has Reduced Drive-Axle Traction and Jackknifes Where a Loaded Unit Would Hold, the Physics the Carrier Should Have Trained For Under 49 CFR Motor Carrier Safety Regulations, We Pull Driver Logs and Inspection Records Before the Arctic Rotation Cycle Erases Them Within Months, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Alaska’s Pure Comparative Negligence Rule and Wrongful-Death Act, Workers’ Comp Exclusive Remedy vs. Third-Party Tort Claims Against the Trucking Entity, 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
The Prudhoe Bay Spine Road Jackknife: Five Oilfield Workers Killed on the Deadliest Day in the Field’s History If you are reading this because someone you love was killed or hurt in an oilfield trucking accident — on the North Slope, on a Permian Basin lease road, on any industrial road where heavy trucks and passenger vans share the same ice-surfaced gravel — you are in the moment where the company’s story about what happened is already being written, and your family’s story is the one that needs a lawyer to tell it. We know that moment. We have lived inside it with families across the oil and gas industry, and we know what the company is doing in the hours and days after a wreck like this while the families are still at the hospital or still making funeral arrangements. On January 1, 1985, an empty tractor-trailer jackknifed into a passenger van on the Spine Road at Prudhoe Bay, Alaska — the main gravel haul road threading through the largest oil field in North America. Five oilfield workers were killed. Three were seriously injured and evacuated by air to a hospital in Anchorage, 635 miles south. The van was…