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Oilfield Rig Floor Collapse & Critical Crush Injury Attorneys: Jesus Hernandez Crushed When the Rig Floor Gave Way at a Petro-Hunt Permian Basin Worksite in Pecos County, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Operators and the Contractor Chains Behind Structural Failures, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Oilfield Cases, We Move to Preserve the Collapsed Rig Structure, Maintenance Records and Sensor Data Before the Site Is Dismantled, OSHA and API Standards Govern Rig Floor Integrity, Texas Non-Subscriber Doctrine Strips Employer Defenses When Workers’ Comp Is Opted Out, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Rig Floor That Came Down: What Happened at the Petro-Hunt Worksite in Pecos County If you are reading this from a hospital corridor in West Texas, or from a kitchen table covered in medical paperwork you never expected to see, we are writing directly to you. On October 24, 2025, an oilfield worker named Jesus Hernandez was working below or near a rig floor at a Petro-Hunt Permian Basin worksite in Pecos County when the structure collapsed on top of him. He was crushed. He was rushed into surgery. He has undergone multiple operations and remains hospitalized indefinitely. His wife, Lexus Hernandez, has filed a lawsuit in Dallas County naming Petro-Hunt, L.L.C. and Petro-Hunt Permian, LLC, alleging negligence and gross negligence, and seeking a temporary restraining order to stop the company from altering or destroying the physical evidence at the site. That TRO request is not a formality. It is the single most important thing happening in this case right now, and it tells you everything about how oilfield collapse litigation works. A rig site in the Permian Basin does not stay frozen while a worker lies in a hospital bed. Equipment gets moved. Structures get repaired. Digital data…

Orphan Well Blowouts and H2S Toxic Exposure on Pecos County, Texas Ranchland — Attorney911 Pursues Former Well Operators and Successor Entities Behind Unplugged Wells Releasing Lethal Hydrogen Sulfide Gas and Produced Water Onto Schuyler Wight’s Property, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Preserve Water-Quality Samples, H2S Air-Monitoring Data and Railroad Commission Well Records Before Contaminant Plumes Migrate and the Statute of Limitations Runs, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Private Nuisance, Toxic Tort and Strict Liability for Ultrahazardous Activity, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos County, Texas Orphan Well Blowouts: H2S Toxic Exposure, Produced Water Contamination, and Your Rights as a Landowner You did everything right. You reported the blowouts. You drove to Austin — not once, but twice — and sat across from the people whose job it is to fix this. You told them what was happening on your land: uncontrolled oil and gas surging to the surface, saltwater pooling where your cattle drink, and a rotten-egg smell that means something far worse than a bad odor. They listened. They wrote things down. And then nothing happened. That silence is not an accident. It is a system that is underfunded, understaffed, and — as one Pecos County rancher put it publicly — a system where the people in charge “don’t have the personnel to take care of it and basically, they don’t care.” We are not going to tell you that suing the Railroad Commission of Texas is easy, because it is not — sovereign immunity makes it one of the hardest targets in Texas law. What we will tell you is this: the regulatory record you built by reporting these blowouts, by going to Austin, by documenting the inaction — that…

Petro-Hunt Rig Floor Collapse Crushes Oilfield Worker Jesus Hernandez at a Pecos County, Texas Wellsite: Attorney911 Oilfield Work-Injury Attorneys Pursue the Well Operators and Drilling Contractors Behind Structural Failures, We Lock Down the Rig Debris, Maintenance Records and Digital Drilling Data Before the Wellsite Is Remediated, Texas Non-Subscriber Law Strips Employers of Common-Law Defenses, Gross Negligence and Conscious Indifference Unlock Exemplary Damages, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Crush and Amputation ($3.8M+ Recovered), $50M+ Recovered for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos County Oilfield Rig Collapse: What Happened at the Petro-Hunt Wellsite — and What Your Rights Are When the Rig Floor Gives Way If you are reading this from a hospital room in Fort Stockton, Odessa, or Midland — watching someone you love recover from surgery after a rig floor collapsed underneath them — you are in a moment that most people cannot imagine and the oilfield never warns you about. The man on that bed was doing his job. The structure beneath him was supposed to hold. It did not. Now the medical bills are climbing, the company’s insurance adjuster has already started calling, and nobody from the operator has told you the truth about what failed or why. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic oilfield injury and wrongful death cases in Texas. We are writing this for you and for every family in the Permian Basin who has been or could be in this position. This page is legal information, not legal advice. But it is the information we wish every family had before they signed anything, said anything to an adjuster, or let another week pass while the evidence at the…

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