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DeWitt County, Texas: A $46 Million Verdict and What It Means for Every Oilfield Family Who Lost Someone at a Well Site If you are reading this page, someone you love is probably gone. Maybe it happened at a well site in the Eagle Ford Shale. Maybe a truck turned where it should not have turned, and the person who signed the delivery ticket never made it home. Maybe you are staring at a workers’ compensation packet someone handed you at the funeral, and you are wondering whether that is all there is. It is not. What happened to Andrew West at a Devon Energy well site in DeWitt County on September 4, 2019 — and what a Hays County jury did about it in January 2026 — is a blueprint for exactly how the law holds the layered contractor chain accountable when an oilfield worker is killed by someone else’s recklessness. We are going to walk you through every piece of it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court, building cases against companies that cut corners and kill people. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national…