Odessa, Texas

Jul 23, 2026

Fatal Construction Accident at Odessa College in Odessa, Ector County, Texas: Subcontractor Killed on the Campus Job Site June 23, Attorney911 Pursues the General Contractor, the Subcontracting Employer and Every Liable Party Behind the Hazard, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Construction Claims Machine Values and Denies Wrongful-Death Cases, We Secure the Site-Safety Plans, Toolbox-Talk Records, OSHA 300 Logs and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Texas Non-Subscriber Doctrine Strips Employer Defenses When Workers’ Comp Coverage Is Absent, the Texas Tort Claims Act Notice Clock Is Already Running Against the College, Permian Basin Construction Wages Drive the Lost-Earning-Capacity Claim, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Subcontractor Died Building Something at Odessa College — and Texas Law Gives the Family Rights Most People Never Hear About If you are reading this because someone you love went to work at a construction site on the Odessa College campus and did not come home, the first thing you need to hear is this: you do not have to make any decisions today. Not about a lawyer. Not about a lawsuit. Not about signing anything. The only thing that needs to happen right now is the protection of evidence — because on a construction site, proof disappears in days, not years, and there are people who may already be working to make sure it does. What happened on June 23, 2026, at that Odessa campus construction project is still under investigation. Federal safety regulators from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration are on the site. The college has issued a statement expressing sympathies. Work in the affected area has been suspended. Beyond that, almost nothing is publicly known — not the mechanism of the accident, not the identity of the subcontractor’s employer, not the name of the general contractor running the project, and not the specific safety failure…

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Jul 23, 2026

Alex Bingham, 25, a Married Father of Three Killed When an Intoxicated Underage Driver Left the Roadway and Struck Him Outside His Odessa Home — Dram Shop & Wrongful Death Attorneys: Attorney911 Pursues the Bars and TABC License Holders That Overserve Obviously Intoxicated Minors, as in the Lawsuit Against Twist Off Saloon, Texas Dram Shop Liability Where a Provider Serves Someone Presenting a Clear and Present Danger to Self and Others, the Wrongful Death Act and Survival Action for a Widow and Three Children, We Preserve Bar Surveillance Footage and Point-of-Sale Records Before the 30-to-90-Day Overwrite Destroys Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo Excellent 8.2 Rating — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Dram Shop Wrongful Death: When a Bar Serves a Teenager Until He Kills Someone If you are reading this page, someone you love may have been killed by a drunk driver in Odessa, and you may have just learned that a bar or restaurant kept serving that driver alcohol even after he was visibly intoxicated — or even after he was underage. You are in the right place. This page explains exactly how Texas dram shop law works, what evidence is already disappearing, what your family can recover, and why the speed of the first few weeks can decide whether the case is built on proof or built on smoke. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death, dram shop, and catastrophic injury cases across Texas, including Ector County and the Permian Basin. This page is written for one person: the spouse, parent, or child of someone killed by a drunk driver in Odessa who is sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m., staring at a phone, trying to understand what just happened to their family and what to do next. Everything written here is legal information, not legal advice. Past results depend…

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Jul 23, 2026

Toxic Contamination & Chemical Fire Lawsuit: The Permian Basin Containers Catastrophe in Odessa, Ector County, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice Against the Oilfield Waste Operators Who Stacked Flammable Chemicals Six-High in a Chemical Graveyard That Contaminated Private Wells With Known Carcinogens and Neurotoxins, We Pursue the Facility Operators, the Landowner Entities and the Waste Generators Under RCRA Cradle-to-Grave Liability, We Secure the Well Water Samples, Chemical Manifests and TCEQ Investigation Files Before Contaminant Plumes Migrate and Evidence Vanishes, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Toxic Exposure Cases, Texas Gross Negligence Doctrine Where Years of Resident Complaints Were Ignored and Containers Were Falsely Called Empty, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Chemical Fire Toxic Contamination: Your Water, Your Health, Your Legal Rights in Ector County You can still smell it. That chemical odor — the one that burns your eyes and sits in the back of your throat — has been part of your life since July 2024, when flames shot a hundred feet into the air and explosions woke your family before dawn. Maybe you evacuated. Maybe you tried to stay. Either way, the fire at the Permian Basin Containers facility on West County Road changed everything about where you live. Your well water comes out discolored now, with a smell that tells you something is wrong before any lab test confirms it. Your property is coated in a black sludge that appeared when the firefighting water carried chemicals across property lines in a flood surge up to ten inches deep. And the people who ran that facility — the ones who told you the containers were empty, or held only clean water — are not the ones knocking on your door with answers. Their insurers are. We want you to know what you are walking into, what the law gives you, and what we do in cases like…

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Jul 21, 2026

Odessa, Ector County Mass Shooting & Wrongful Death Attorneys: Seven Killed, Twenty-Two Injured, a 17-Month-Old Child Shot in the Face — Attorney911 Pursues the Firearm Seller Behind the Illegal Transfer, the Employer Who Failed to Act on Red Flags, and the Property Owners Along the Midland-Odessa Corridor, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure ATF Trace Records, NICS Documentation and Employment Files Before They Are Destroyed, PLCAA Exceptions for Knowing Sales to Prohibited Persons, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine With Minor-Tolling Protection for Child Victims Like Anderson Davis, 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 Mass Shooting: Legal Rights of Victims and Families You are reading this because someone you love was caught in the August 31, 2019 shooting that tore through the Midland-Odessa corridor — seven people dead, twenty-two injured, a seventeen-month-old girl shot in the face. Maybe you are a family member who lost someone. Maybe you are a survivor still carrying shrapnel. Maybe you are the parent of that toddler, reading at two in the morning, trying to understand what the law can do for your child now. This page is written for you. Not as a brochure. As a roadmap from people who do this work. Here is the first thing you need to hear, and it is honest: the legal landscape for this incident is difficult for most adult victims because Texas gives you two years to file a personal-injury or wrongful-death lawsuit, and that window closed in August 2021. But that is not the end of the story. Texas law tolls — pauses — the statute of limitations for minors, meaning a child injured in this rampage may still have a viable claim years after the adults’ deadlines passed. And for any claim that was timely filed before…

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Jul 21, 2026

Two Drivers Dead in Late-Night Head-On Pickup Truck Crash at East Goldenrod and North Alfalfa Drives Near Odessa, Ector County — Attorney911 Fights for Families When the Permian Basin’s Rural Roads Turn Fatal, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Extract the EDR Black-Box Data From Both the Dodge Ram and Chevrolet Silverado Before Salvage Yards Release Them, We Trace Whether Either Truck Was Driven for Oilfield Work That Could Implicate Employer Liability and Commercial Auto Coverage, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Reserves and Denies Dual-Fatality Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Rights for Surviving Spouses, Children and Parents, Comparative-Fault and UM/UIM Recovery When the At-Fault Driver’s Estate Has Minimum Limits, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal Head-On Crash Near Odessa: What Families Must Know After the Ector County Goldenrod Drive Collision Someone you love is not coming home from a road in Ector County. Maybe you got the call in the middle of the night — the kind of call that splits a life into before and after. Maybe you are sitting at a kitchen table right now, staring at a phone that stopped ringing, trying to understand how two pickup trucks meeting on a rural road north of Odessa could end both lives in the time it takes to blink. We are sorry you are reading this. We are glad you found this page, because what happens in the next few weeks — not months, weeks — will decide whether the truth about what happened to your family is preserved or lost forever. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases across Texas, and we have spent more than 27 years in courtrooms fighting for families who were failed once by a crash and are being failed again by an insurance system that was designed to pay them as little as possible. This page is not…

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Jul 21, 2026

15-Year-Old Pedestrian Fatally Struck by a Gray Dodge Ram on Odessa’s Loop 338 the Night of August 7, 2024: Texas Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Pursue the At-Fault Driver, the Vehicle Owner, the Employer If the Ram Was Running as a Permian Basin Oilfield Work Truck, and Stellantis as the Manufacturer Behind the Vehicle — We Extract the EDR Black-Box Speed and Braking Data, the Driver’s Cell Phone Records, and Toxicology Results Before the Evidence Is Lost, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies a Child’s Wrongful Death, Texas Modified Comparative Negligence With the 51% Bar and the Child Standard of Care That Protects a 15-Year-Old From Adult-Level Fault, No Statutory Cap on Non-Economic Damages in Motor-Vehicle Wrongful Death, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal Pedestrian Accident on Odessa’s Loop 338: What Happened and What Your Family Can Do Your daughter was fifteen years old. She was walking on Loop 338 in Odessa on a Wednesday night in August, and a pickup truck traveling south on that same road struck her and killed her. The Odessa Police Department responded at 10:33 p.m. on August 7, 2024. She was pronounced deceased at the scene. Next of kin were notified. The investigation is ongoing. That is what the public record says, and that is where your family’s fight for the truth begins — not ends. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death claims and pedestrian accident cases across Texas, and we are writing this page for one person: the parent, the grandparent, the sibling who is reading about Loop 338 at two in the morning, trying to understand what happened and what can still be done. Your daughter’s life mattered. Her death will be investigated — not just by the police, but by people who work for you, at your pace, on your terms. Here is the first thing you need to hear: the fact that your daughter was walking…

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Jul 21, 2026

Permian Basin Sulfur Dioxide Toxic Exposure Attorneys — Attorney911 Pursues Occidental Petroleum and the Oil & Gas Operators Behind 5.3 Million Pounds of Illegal SO2 Flaring Emissions in Violation of Federal Clean Air Act Permits Across Odessa, Ector County, Texas Where Only One Air Monitor Covers 75,000 Square Miles, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Secure the TCEQ Emission Event Reports, Flaring Logs and Gas Composition Data Before Retention Cycles Overwrite Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Toxic Injury, Atmospheric Dispersion Modeling to Reconstruct SO2 Plume Trajectories to Your Home, Texas Negligence Per Se and Nuisance Claims Built on Documented Permit Violations, Children and Elderly Especially Susceptible to Respiratory Harm, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa Sulfur Dioxide Exposure: Your Legal Rights When the Air Itself Is the Injury You live in Odessa, and there is something in the air your family has been breathing. Maybe you have felt it before you ever read about it — the cough that started and never left, the child whose inhaler refills kept getting closer together, the parent whose breathing seemed to get worse every year the pumpjacks multiplied across the horizon. You may have wondered whether the air itself was the reason. A third-party environmental analysis has now put numbers to what you suspected: in 2017 alone, oil and gas companies illegally discharged 5.3 million pounds of sulfur dioxide into the air of Ector County — every pound of it in violation of the federal pollution permits those companies hold. The analysis found that roughly 35 percent of Ector County experienced sulfur dioxide levels above the federal health standard. And the state agency charged with protecting that air has installed exactly one sulfur dioxide monitor for the entire 75,000-square-mile Permian Basin. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle toxic tort and environmental exposure cases in Texas. This page is not a sales pitch. It…

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Jul 20, 2026

68-Year-Old Woman Found Dead at an Odessa, Texas Self-Storage Facility: Premises Liability & Wrongful Death — When Police Report No Foul Play, That Addresses Whether a Crime Occurred, Not Whether a Dangerous Condition at a Minimally Staffed Storage Facility Contributed to This Death, Attorney911 Pursues the Facility Operator, Property Owner and Management Company, We Move to Preserve Surveillance Footage, Keypad Access Logs and Maintenance Records Before the 30-to-90-Day Overwrite Cycle, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Premises Law Owes Storage-Facility Entrants the Duty to Inspect and Warn of Hazardous Conditions, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Woman Found Dead at Odessa Storage Facility: What Families Need to Know About Premises Liability, Evidence Preservation, and Wrongful Death in Texas Someone in your family is gone. A 68-year-old woman — a mother, a grandmother, a neighbor, a person with a full life behind her — was found dead at a storage facility in north Odessa on a Tuesday evening, near Bennefield, and the police have said the words that every grieving family hears and misunderstands: no foul play is suspected. You are reading this at a kitchen table, or in a parked car, or at 2 a.m. when the house is quiet and the questions will not stop. We are going to answer every one of those questions, honestly, and we are going to tell you what the law actually says about what happened — not what the news said, not what the facility’s management implied, and not what the insurance adjuster who may already be circling wants you to believe. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial lawyers who take wrongful death and premises liability cases in Texas. We are writing this for one purpose: to give you the education, the legal…

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Jul 20, 2026

Fallen Ector County Firefighter Lt. Isai Huerta, Who Died June 14 From Injuries Sustained Battling an Odessa Trailer-Home Fire: Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Property Owners, Equipment Manufacturers and Third Parties Behind Fatal Trailer-Home Fires When Workers’ Comp Is Not the Only Remedy, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Line-of-Duty Death Cases, We Move to Preserve the Lubbock Autopsy Report, Fire Cause-and-Origin Findings, SCBA and Turnout Gear, Dispatch Audio and Incident-Command Logs Before the Fire Scene Is Remediated and Radio Recordings Are Lost to Auto-Delete Cycles, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Doctrine With the Workers’-Comp Exclusive-Remedy Barrier and Its Gross-Negligence Exception, the Firefighter’s Rule and Its Limits, NFPA and Texas Commission on Fire Protection Standards, the Statute of Limitations Running From the Date of Death, 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, Ector County, Texas: When a Firefighter Falls, the Family Has Questions the System Is Not Volunteering More than 150 first responders from several states traveled to Odessa in June 2026 to honor a man who died doing what every one of them has sworn to do — run toward the fire. Lt. Isai Huerta, an Ector County firefighter, died on June 14 from injuries he suffered while battling a trailer home fire in Odessa. His body was taken to Lubbock, roughly 150 miles northeast, for autopsy — a distance that tells you the system itself recognized this death required a look from outside the responding jurisdiction. A public funeral was held at the Ector County Coliseum. The community showed up. That showing is not ceremony; it is evidence of something the law cares about — this man’s life had measurable value to the people who depended on him, and the circumstances of his death deserve an answer that goes deeper than a death certificate. We are writing this page for one person: the family member who is sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa or Midland or anywhere across the Permian Basin, being told that workers’ compensation is the…

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Jul 18, 2026

Seven Dead in a Preventable Mass Shooting in Odessa, Texas: A Prohibited Buyer Exploited the Federal Background-Check Loophole to Obtain an Assault-Style Rifle From an Unlicensed Seller on an Online Firearms Classifieds Platform — Attorney911 Pursues Armslist, LLC and the Private Seller Under Negligent-Entrustment Doctrine and the PLCAA Exception, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice in a West Texas Venue Where Oilfield-Safety Culture Primes Jurors for Corporate Accountability, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Platform Ad Records, ATF Trace Data and Seller Communications Before Text Records and Platform Data Are Overwritten Within 90 to 180 Days, the Gun Control Act’s Private-Sale Gap and the Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Statute With the 51% Comparative-Fault Bar, 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, Texas: When the Background Check Loophole Arms a Prohibited Buyer You are reading this at an hour when most people are asleep. Someone you love was taken from you on that West Texas corridor between Odessa and Midland — or you are the one who survived, and the sound of a rifle has not left your ears. The shooter is dead. The police came. The news trucks left. And now you are sitting with the question nobody in authority has answered: who put that weapon in his hands, and can the law reach them? The answer is yes. The shooter is not the only defendant. A person who sold an assault-style rifle to a stranger through an online classifieds site — without a single question, without a background check, without any vetting whatsoever — is not an innocent bystander. And the platform that connected them, a website built specifically to facilitate firearms transfers between anonymous strangers, may bear its own responsibility. The law of negligent entrustment, the exceptions built into the federal gun industry shield, and the developing doctrine of online platform liability all point at the same truth: when someone hands a dangerous instrumentality to a person the…

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