Midland County Workplace Injury

Oilfield Fire & Wrongful Death at a Midland County Salt Water Disposal Facility: Attorney911 Pursues On Point Oilfield Operations and the Crude-Hauling Carriers Behind Oil-Laden 18-Wheeler Fires — Daniel Calvillo Killed at the Scene, Aaron Montanez Airlifted with Severe Burns to a Lubbock Trauma Center, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Secure the Fire-Cause and Origin Reports, ELD Telematics and Grounding-System Schematics Before Post-Fire Remediation Destroys the Scene, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Oilfield Burn Cases, Texas Non-Subscriber Employer Liability Strips the Facility Operator of Its Common-Law Defenses, OSHA Fatality Investigation and Railroad Commission Jurisdiction, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland County Oilfield Fire: What Happened at On Point Oilfield Operations and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this because someone you love was hurt or killed in an oilfield fire in the Permian Basin, you are probably sitting in a hospital waiting room in Lubbock or Midland, or at a kitchen table with a funeral home’s card in your hand, and you are being told things by an insurance adjuster that sound reasonable and are not. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm — and this page is not a sales pitch. It is the analysis we would give you if you were sitting across from us right now, written so you can arm yourself before you talk to anyone from the company or its insurer. On January 15, 2019, a fire erupted at a distillation facility operated by On Point Oilfield Operations on FM 1788 near Interstate 20 in Midland County, Texas. Two 18-wheelers hauling oil caught fire at the salt water disposal site. One worker — Daniel Calvillo — died at the scene, burned severely. Another — Aaron Montanez — suffered catastrophic burn injuries that required emergency transport to Midland Memorial Hospital…

Permian Basin Oilfield Wrongful Death in Midland County, TX: Attorney911 Pursues the Well Site Operators, Drilling Contractors, Service Companies and Equipment Manufacturers Behind the Multi-Employer Pad Sites Where Heavy Machinery and High-Pressure Systems Turn Fatal, 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 Oilfield Death Cases, We Move to Preserve the OSHA Fatality File, Well-Site Equipment and Co-Worker Statements Before the Basin’s Transient Workforce Scatters and Physical Evidence Is Repaired or Scrapped, Texas Non-Subscriber Law Strips Employers Who Opt Out of Workers’ Comp of Every Common-Law Defense, 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 Someone You Love Doesn’t Come Home From the Oilfield The call comes at a hour when nobody is ready for it. A supervisor’s voice, or a sheriff’s deputy, or a coworker who sounds like the words are coming from somewhere outside his body. There has been an accident on a site somewhere out past the FM roads that connect Midland to the leases. Your person is not coming home. Everything after that sentence is noise you will reconstruct later — who said what, what they promised, whether the company man seemed sorry or seemed like he was already building a version of events. We are writing this for you, and for the family at the kitchen table at two in the morning who is about to be contacted by people who sound sympathetic and are not. What happened in Midland County — the loss of one life on an oilfield site in the Permian Basin — is the kind of event that repeats itself in this country more than most people outside the basin will ever know. The machinery, the pressure, the chemicals, the schedules, the transient workforce, the multi-company worksite where everyone’s name is on a different truck…