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Jul 17, 2026

Permian Basin Oil Field Injuries, Toxic Exposure & Wrongful Death: César Gómez’s Shattered Spine and Two-Week Coma From an Oil Field Truck Rollover on Ice After Sleepless Multi-Day Shifts, Diego García’s Leukemia From Radionuclide-Laden Drilling Waste, Marcos Carranza’s Loss of Smell, Vision and Memory to Hydrogen Sulfide — Attorney911 Pursues Deep-Pocket Operators Like ExxonMobil and the Lowest-Bid Contractor Shells Behind the New Mexico Boom, We Secure ELD Data, H2S Monitoring Logs, Waste Manifests and Shift Records Before They Vanish on a Transient Workforce, NMOSHA Confined-Space Standards and FMCSA Hours-of-Service Rules the Companies Ignored, New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Exclusive Remedy With Third-Party Claims Against Site-Controlling Operators and the Discovery Rule for Toxic Exposure, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, $50M+ Recovered Including $2.5M+ Truck-Crash and $5M+ TBI — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

New Mexico Oil Field Injuries: The True Cost of Working the Permian Basin You are reading this at a time when everything has already gone wrong. Maybe you are the one who got hurt — the spinal injury that means you cannot lift your own child, the leukemia diagnosis that came out of nowhere at thirty-six, the loss of smell that means you will never again know the dinner your wife cooked. Maybe you are the spouse who keeps finding your husband’s work boots by the door even though he is not coming home the same. Maybe you are sitting in a hospital room in El Paso, two hours from home, wondering how a two-week coma turned into a lifetime of metal pegs in a spine. Or maybe you are the worker who is afraid — afraid that if you speak up, you lose your job, or worse, that someone calls immigration on the only livelihood that feeds your family. We are Attorney911. We are writing to you, not at you. Everything that follows is for the person who is trying to understand what happened to them or to someone they love in the oil fields of southeastern New Mexico…

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Jul 17, 2026

Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Exposure & Toxic Tort Attorneys — Odessa, Texas Families Sickened by Oil-Field H2S at 90 Times the State Residential Limit: Attorney911 Pursues the Permian Basin Operators Behind the Leaking Storage Tanks, Unlit Flares and Corroded Hatches, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Secure the Air-Monitoring Data, Infrared Video and State Violation Records Before They Disappear as Operators Transfer Management, Chronic Exposure Linked to Neurological Damage and Two Deaths from Acute H2S, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values These Cases, Texas Private Nuisance, Trespass and Strict-Liability Claims for Families Exposed to a Gas the EPA Deregulated Decades Ago, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death and Catastrophic-Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If Your Family Is Breathing Hydrogen Sulfide from Oil Operations in Odessa, This Is What the Law Says — and What the Companies Hope You Never Find Out You wake up to the smell of rotten eggs. Your children have headaches again. Your toddler is nauseated. Across the street, a flare burns gas in a curling flame from a pipe jutting thirty-five feet into the West Texas sky, and behind it sit weathered 500-barrel tanks storing oil and water pumped from wells that have been here longer than most of the houses. You have called the state. You have filed complaints. An inspector came out, found the gas leaking from a damaged tank hatch or an unlit flare, wrote it up, and left. The company made a piecemeal repair. The gas kept leaking. That is not a failure of your persistence. It is a feature of a system designed to protect the operator’s economics, not your family’s lungs. What the state’s own monitoring equipment has documented outside homes in Odessa — in Ector County, in the heart of the Permian Basin — is not a close call. State air analysts were hit with hydrogen sulfide so concentrated inside their monitoring…

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Jul 17, 2026

H2S Wrongful Death & Toxic-Exposure Attorneys: Jacob and Natalee Dean Killed by Hydrogen Sulfide at an Aghorn Facility in Odessa, Ector County, Attorney911 Pursues the Facility Operators and Corporate Parents Behind H2S-Lethal Permian Basin Sites Where Railroad Commission Rule 36 Should Have Prevented the Exposure, the Knockdown Gas That Drops a Worker in Seconds Then Claims the Untrained Person Who Enters After, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Texas Gross-Negligence Law Breaks Through Workers’ Comp Exclusivity for Employee Deaths While Non-Employee Family Claims Proceed on Full Premises Liability, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure H2S Monitoring Data, CCTV and Training Records Before the Logs Auto-Purge in 30 to 90 Days, 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 Deaths in the Odessa Oilfield: 50 Years After Denver City, Who Is Accountable? If you are reading this page, someone you love did not come home from the oilfield. Or they came home and told you what happened at that facility, and now you are sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa or Midland or Pecos at two in the morning, searching for answers because the company called it an accident and you know in your bones it was not. You are right. In the Permian Basin, hydrogen sulfide is not a mystery. It is a known, regulated, entirely foreseeable killer that the oil and gas industry has understood for over half a century. When a facility operator lets it take a life, that is not bad luck. That is a choice someone made between compliance and safety — and your family is living with the cost. We are the trial team at Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death claims and toxic exposure cases in Texas, including the Permian Basin. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, building cases against companies that chose shortcuts over lives. Lupe Peña sat inside…

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Jul 17, 2026

Industrial Explosion & Mass-Casualty Wrongful Death in West, McLennan County, Texas: The Ammonium Nitrate Detonation at the West Fertilizer Company That Killed 15 Including 10 Volunteer Firefighters and Injured Hundreds — Attorney911 Pursues the Facility Operators and Chemical Suppliers Behind 40-60 Tons of Detonable Oxidizer Stored Without Sprinklers or NFPA 400 Compliance in a Wood-Frame Building Adjacent to Homes, Schools and a Nursing Home, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Secure the CSB Findings, ATF Origin-and-Cause Records, EPA Tier II Filings and OSHA Process-Safety Documentation Before Corporate Entities Dissolve and Insurance Policies Lapse, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Mass-Casualty Industrial Claims, Texas Gross Negligence Doctrine and Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion: Your Legal Rights After an Industrial Disaster If you lost someone in the West Fertilizer Company explosion, or if you were injured when the blast tore through your home, your school, or your town on April 17, 2013, you already know what happened. You felt it. What you may not know is that the people who stored forty to sixty tons of a detonable chemical in a wooden building with no sprinklers, next to homes and a nursing home and a school, had options they chose not to take — and the law in Texas holds that kind of choice accountable. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, and this page is for the families of West, McLennan County, Texas who are trying to understand what rights they still have after one of the worst industrial disasters in Texas history. Fifteen people died. Ten of them were firefighters — volunteers who ran toward a fire they were never warned was sitting on top of a bomb. Hundreds were injured. A hundred million dollars in property damage spread across twenty-five city blocks. A ninety-foot crater where a building used to stand. And the official investigation said…

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Jul 17, 2026

Petro-Hunt Rig Floor Collapse Crushes Oilfield Worker Jesus Hernandez at a Pecos County, Texas Wellsite: Attorney911 Oilfield Work-Injury Attorneys Pursue the Well Operators and Drilling Contractors Behind Structural Failures, We Lock Down the Rig Debris, Maintenance Records and Digital Drilling Data Before the Wellsite Is Remediated, Texas Non-Subscriber Law Strips Employers of Common-Law Defenses, Gross Negligence and Conscious Indifference Unlock Exemplary Damages, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Crush and Amputation ($3.8M+ Recovered), $50M+ Recovered for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos County Oilfield Rig Collapse: What Happened at the Petro-Hunt Wellsite — and What Your Rights Are When the Rig Floor Gives Way If you are reading this from a hospital room in Fort Stockton, Odessa, or Midland — watching someone you love recover from surgery after a rig floor collapsed underneath them — you are in a moment that most people cannot imagine and the oilfield never warns you about. The man on that bed was doing his job. The structure beneath him was supposed to hold. It did not. Now the medical bills are climbing, the company’s insurance adjuster has already started calling, and nobody from the operator has told you the truth about what failed or why. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic oilfield injury and wrongful death cases in Texas. We are writing this for you and for every family in the Permian Basin who has been or could be in this position. This page is legal information, not legal advice. But it is the information we wish every family had before they signed anything, said anything to an adjuster, or let another week pass while the evidence at the…

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Jul 17, 2026

Oilfield Worker Crushed to Death by Falling Blocks on a Permian Basin Well Site off FM 1379 in Midland County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues the Operator and the Rig Contractor Behind the Block-Securement Failure, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Move to Secure the Fallen Blocks, Mounting Hardware and Inspection Logs Before the Operator Disposes of Them — the Company Has Already Locked Down the Well Site and Controls Every Piece of Physical Evidence, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Oilfield Deaths, OSHA Oil and Gas Extraction Standards and API Equipment-Inspection Requirements, Texas Non-Subscriber Doctrine Strips Employer Defenses When Workers’ Comp Was Not Carried, 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 the Company Says It “Secured the Well Site,” the Clock on Your Evidence Has Already Started If you are reading this because someone you love went to work in the Permian Basin and did not come home, the first thing you need to understand is that the company has already moved. Not because it is evil — because it is organized. The statement that the company “secured the well site” is not a comfort. It is a warning. It means the physical evidence — the blocks that fell, the mounting hardware that failed, the rig configuration that allowed it to happen — is now in the hands of the very entity whose choices may have caused the death. And in the oilfield, evidence does not wait for families to grieve before it disappears. This page is a forensic case study of a real incident that took the life of an oilfield worker in Midland County, Texas, on the morning of August 31, 2017, approximately 30 miles southeast of Midland off FM 1379. Blocks became loose on a well site and fell on the worker, killing him. A second worker was injured in the same event. The operating company confirmed…

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Jul 17, 2026

Hydrogen Sulfide Oilfield Wrongful Death in Odessa, Texas: Jacob and Natalee Dean Died After H2S — a Colorless Gas That Disables the Sense of Smell at Lethal Concentrations — Overcame Them Inside an Aghorn Pump House in the Permian Basin, Leaving Their Two Young Children Without Parents, Attorney911 Pursues the Oilfield Operators and Contractor Chains Behind Toxic Gas Exposure, We Secure the H2S Monitoring Records, Injection Well Integrity Files and Training Logs Before They Are Altered, 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 Toxic-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Actions, Gross Negligence and the Workers’ Comp Non-Subscriber Doctrine That Strips Employers of Common-Law Defenses, OSHA H2S Standards and Clean Air Act Violations, the Obstruction Charge That Signals Consciousness of Guilt and Spoliation Risk, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Day the Gas Came: What Happened at the Aghorn Pump House in Odessa If you are reading this because someone you love went to work in the Permian Basin and did not come home — or because you watched the news about an Odessa pump house where a husband and wife died the same evening, leaving two children waiting in a car — you are already in the hardest part of this. You are sitting with a grief that does not fit into words, and you are trying to understand whether anything can still be done about it. We are going to tell you the truth about that, straight, because that is what you deserve. Here is what the public record shows. On October 26, 2019, a worker was dispatched by his employer, Aghorn Operating Inc., to check on one of the company’s pump houses in Odessa, Texas — an enclosed facility in the heart of the Permian Basin, where hydrogen sulfide gas can accumulate to lethal concentrations without any visible warning. He entered the building and was overcome by the gas. When he did not return and could not be reached by phone, his wife drove to the…

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Jul 17, 2026

Hydrogen Sulfide Wrongful Death at the Foster D Pump House in Odessa, Texas: Attorney911 Holds Oilfield Operators and the Contractors Behind Them When Broken Monitors and Missing Breathing Gear Turn a Water-Circulation Building Into a Lethal Chamber, Jacob and Natalee Dean Killed by H2S at 96,000 ppm, 137 Times the Rapidly Fatal Dose, Their Children Ages 9 and 6 Waiting in the Running Car on an October 2019 Night, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue Aghorn Energy and Every Contractor and Parts Supplier in the Chain, We Secure the OSHA Willful-Violation File, the Railroad Commission Citation, the Monitor Calibration Logs and the Pump Maintenance Records on a Preservation Clock, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Toxic-Death Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Gross-Negligence Doctrine Supporting Punitive Damages, Workers’-Comp Non-Subscriber Rules That Strip Employer Defenses, 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 Hydrogen Sulfide Oilfield Wrongful Death — H2S Toxic Exposure at Aghorn Energy Pump House Kills Husband and Wife When the Phone Goes to Voicemail at an Oilfield Site in Odessa If you are reading this page, someone you love may not have come home from a site in the Permian Basin. The phone went to voicemail. The truck is still in the lot. The children are still in the car. And what you are feeling right now — the disbelief, the rage, the need to understand how a person can walk into a metal building in West Texas and never walk out — is exactly where every family in this situation starts. You are not behind. You are at the beginning of a fight that most people never knew existed, in a place where the rules that should have protected your family were on the books and were ignored, and where the evidence of that failure is already starting to disappear. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases in Texas, including the oilfield corridors of the Permian Basin where hydrogen sulfide gas kills workers and the people who go…

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Jul 17, 2026

Fertilizer Plant Explosion & Industrial Fire Attorneys in West, TX — 15 Dead, 260 Injured When Ammonium Nitrate Stored in Combustible Wooden Bins With No Sprinklers Detonated Near Homes, a School and a Nursing Home on April 17, 2013, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue West Fertilizer Company and the Ammonium Nitrate Suppliers Behind the Blast, We Secure the CSB Investigation Findings, OSHA Storage Records and Blast-Damage Documentation Before Evidence Is Lost, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Catastrophic Cases, Texas Gross Negligence Law Supports Exemplary Damages for Conscious Disregard of Extreme Risk, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

West, Texas Fertilizer Explosion: When a Town Becomes the Blast Radius If you are reading this because someone you love was taken from you by an industrial explosion — or because you were standing in your kitchen when the sky turned white and the walls came in — you already know something that the rest of the country learned from a distance. You know that an ammonium nitrate detonation does not happen at the fence line. It happens at the dinner table. It happens at the school desk. It happens in the nursing home bed. And you know, in a way no investigation report can fully capture, that what happened was not an accident. It was a decision someone made, years before the fire started, to store tons of a detonable chemical in a wooden building with no sprinklers — next to houses, next to a school, next to people who were never told what was sitting in their backyard. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Texas catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases, built around a simple principle: the company’s choices are the case. What follows is our forensic legal analysis of…

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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…

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