Tank Battery Fire on FM 1788 in Western Midland County: Premises Liability Attorneys — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Site Operators and Surface Controllers Behind the Tank Battery Where Stored Crude and Condensate Vapors Ignited at 4:10 a.m., Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure Burn Patterns, Flame Arrestors, SCADA Telemetry and Maintenance Records Before the Operator Remediated the Scene, OSHA Flammable-Liquids Standards and Texas RRC Surface-Operation Rules Set the Duty of Care, Texas Non-Subscriber Rights Strip Employer Defenses When an Oilfield Worker Is Harmed, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Midland Tank Battery Fire on FM 1788: What Oilfield Workers and Families Need to Know If you are reading this at 2 a.m. because someone you love was at a tank battery on FM 1788 when the fire hit at 4:10 in the morning on Saturday, May 3, 2025 — we are talking to you. You may be sitting in a hospital waiting room in Midland, or you may be at a kitchen table trying to figure out what happens to your family’s income while your husband is being treated for burns. You may be a pumper or a gauger who was on that site and walked away but cannot stop coughing. You may be a neighbor whose property was covered in soot and you do not know if the air is safe. Whatever brought you here, one thing is already true: the evidence at that site is being altered or removed right now, and the operator’s insurance team has been working since before the fire was out. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic oilfield injury and wrongful death cases in Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27-plus years in courtrooms, including federal court. Lupe…