Lake Pontchartrain Oil Platform Explosion & Maritime Burn-Injury Attorneys: Seven Crew Hospitalized with Burns and Blast Wounds, One Missing After a Natural Gas Storage Transfer Platform Erupts Two Miles Off Kenner in Jefferson Parish — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Admiralty Jurisdiction on Navigable Waters, We Pursue the Platform Operator, the Chemical Supplier and the Contractor Stack Behind the Blast, General Maritime Law Unseaworthiness and Jones Act Claims, Maintenance and Cure Rights That Attach Immediately Regardless of Fault, No Statutory Damage Caps Under Maritime Law, the Firm Has Recovered $2M+ in Maritime Injury Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Energy-Industry Claims Machine Values and Denies Burn and Blast Cases, We Move to Preserve the Fire Cause-and-Origin Debris, Cleaning Chemical Containers and Safety Data Sheets, Platform Maintenance Logs and Coast Guard Investigation File Before the Active Fire and Weathering Destroy the Evidence, the Louisiana Prescriptive Clock Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Kenner, Jefferson Parish: Lake Pontchartrain Oil Platform Explosion — Your Maritime Rights After the Fire If you are reading this from a hospital waiting room — or from a kitchen table where a chair is empty and a phone will not ring — we need you to understand one thing before anything else. The fire on Lake Pontchartrain was not just burning a platform. It was burning the evidence of what happened to your family. And while you sat in that waiting room, the company that owned that platform already had its lawyers on the phone. That is not paranoia. That is how these cases work. Within hours of an explosion, the platform operator’s insurance team is setting reserves, crafting narratives, and deciding which records to preserve and which to let disappear. The fire that was still burning on that Monday morning in October 2017 was consuming the physical evidence — the failed tank, the chemical containers, the ignition source — in real time. Every hour that passed without a formal preservation demand was an hour the defense was given for free. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle offshore and maritime injury cases, and we are…