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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…