Pecos Personal Injury

Fatal Train Derailment & FELA Wrongful Death in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: Two Union Pacific Crew Members Killed When a Freight Train Struck a Tractor-Trailer at a Rural Grade Crossing and Derailed Into the Chamber of Commerce Building, Three Injured, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Railroad Under FELA Where Any Negligence However Slight Triggers Liability and the Trucking Company Behind the Crossing Violation, We Secure the Locomotive Event Recorder, Grade-Crossing Signal Logs and Truck ELD Data Before the Eight-Day Overwrite Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Wrongful-Death and Comparative-Fault Doctrine Governs Third-Party Injury and Building-Damage Claims, 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

Pecos Train Derailment: Two Union Pacific Workers Killed, Three Injured — Your Legal Rights Under FELA and Texas Law If you are reading this because someone you love went to work for Union Pacific on December 18, 2024, and did not come home, we need you to understand something before anything else: the law that protects your family is not the same law that protects everyone else. It is stronger. It is older. And it was written precisely for this moment — for the families of railroad workers killed because someone else’s negligence, even partly, sent a train off its tracks in a small West Texas town. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Texas, and we are writing this page for the families of the two Union Pacific employees killed in the Pecos derailment, for the three people injured inside the Chamber of Commerce building when the train came through it, and for anyone in Reeves County searching for answers about who is responsible and what can be done. This is legal information, not legal advice — but it is the kind of legal information most families never…

Fatal Train Derailment in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: Two Union Pacific Employees Killed When Freight Train Collided With Tractor-Trailer at Grade Crossing, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to FELA Wrongful-Death Claims and Third-Party Trucking Liability, We Pursue the Motor Carrier Behind the Grade-Crossing Collision and Hold the Railroad Under the Federal Employer’s Liability Act’s Slightest-Negligence Standard, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve the Locomotive Black-Box Data, Crossing Signal Logs and Truck ELD Records Before the Overwrite, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions With Modified Comparative Fault, Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos Train Derailment: Two Railroad Workers Dead, Three Injured — What the Families Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love went to work on a Union Pacific freight train on December 18, 2024, and did not come home — or because you were inside a building in Pecos when a derailed train came through the wall — you are in a place no one prepares you for. The first thing you need to hear is simple: what happened to your family is not just a tragedy. It is a legal event with a clock on it, and the clock is already running against you. Two Union Pacific employees were killed when their freight train collided with a tractor-trailer at a railway crossing in Pecos, Texas, just before 5 p.m. on a Wednesday evening in December. The train derailed. Three people were hurt — some of them inside the Pecos Chamber of Commerce building when the derailed train struck it with enough force that officials warned no one should enter until a structural engineer inspected the damage. The train was carrying hazardous materials, including lithium-ion batteries and air bags. None were released, and the…

Train Derailment & Wrongful Death in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas — Two Union Pacific Railroad Employees Killed When a Tractor-Trailer Stopped on the Tracks and the Derailed Train Struck the Chamber of Commerce Building: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Grade-Crossing Claims, We Pursue the Trucking Company and the Crossing Entities Behind the Collision, FELA Federal Protections for Railroad Families Alongside Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Actions, We Secure the Locomotive Event Recorder, Truck EDR Data and Crossing Signal Logs Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values These Deaths, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Recovery — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos, Texas Train Derailment: Two Union Pacific Employees Killed, Three Injured — Your Legal Rights After a Grade-Crossing Catastrophe If you are reading this page, someone you love was on that Union Pacific train, or inside the Pecos Chamber of Commerce when the train came through the wall, or you are a family member trying to understand what happens now. You are in the first hours or days after a catastrophe that killed two railroad employees and injured three people who were simply at work in a building near the tracks. The scene is still being controlled by federal investigators. The building is closed. The names may not have been released yet. And the insurance machinery has already started turning — on the trucking side, on the railroad side, and on the side of whoever designed or maintained that crossing. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases in Texas, and we are writing this page for one reason: to give you, in plain language, the truth about what your family’s legal situation actually looks like after a train-truck collision and derailment in West Texas. Not a brochure. Not a sales pitch.…

Train Derailment & FELA Wrongful-Death Attorneys — Pecos, Reeves County, Texas: Attorney911 Pursues Union Pacific and the Motor Carriers Behind Grade-Crossing Collisions on the Permian Basin Freight Corridor Where a Freight Train Carrying Lithium-Battery Hazmat Cars Struck a Tractor-Trailer and Derailed Into the Chamber of Commerce Building Killing Two Veteran Railroad Employees, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Secure the Locomotive Event-Recorder Data, Forward-Facing Camera Footage and Crossing-Signal Logs Before the 72-Hour Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Railroad Claims Machine Values and Denies FELA Deaths, FELA’s Relaxed Negligence Standard and Three-Year Federal Deadline Govern These Claims, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Pecos Train Derailment: What Happened, Who Is Responsible, and What the Families Need to Know Right Now If you are reading this because someone you love was on that Union Pacific crew — or because you were inside the Chamber of Commerce building when the train came through the wall — you are in the hours and days after a disaster that took two lives and hurt three more people in a town where everybody knows somebody. You are being told it was an accident. You are being told the investigation will sort it out. And while that is being said, the evidence that would tell the full story is being erased on short retention cycles that the railroad and the trucking company are counting on you not knowing about. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial lawyers who handle catastrophic injury and wrongful-death cases in Texas, including wrongful death claims against railroads and commercial-trucking defendants. We are writing this page because what happened at the Oak Street and Dot Stafford Street crossing in Pecos on a Wednesday evening at 5:45 p.m. is not just a news story. It is a federal case — literally.…