Pecos Wrongful Death

Fatal Gas Plant Explosion in Pecos, Reeves County, TX — Reynaldo Garcia, 57, and Angel Alaffa, 30, of Rio Grande City Killed in the I-20 Blast: Industrial Explosion & Workplace Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Gas Plant Operators and Contractors at These Facilities, We Secure the SCADA Data, Gas Detection Logs and Process Hazard Analysis Records Before Digital Systems Purge Them, OSHA Process Safety Management and the CSB Investigation Framework, the Texas Non-Subscriber Doctrine That Strips Employer Defenses When Workers’ Comp Coverage Is Absent, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Scene Evidence Is Cleared Within Days and the Statute of Limitations Is Running — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

When a Gas Plant Explosion Takes Two Lives in the Permian Basin If you are reading this, someone you love did not come home from Pecos. Maybe it was your husband, your father, your son, your brother — a man who left Rio Grande City to work at a gas plant along Interstate 20 in West Texas, five hundred miles from the family he was providing for. And on a Saturday morning in October 2023, at 10:14 a.m., something went catastrophically wrong at 631 W I-20, and two men — Reynaldo Garcia, 57, and Angel Alaffa, 30 — were killed. We are writing this for you. Not for a general audience — for the family that is sitting at a kitchen table in Rio Grande City, in Starr County, trying to understand what happened and what to do next. You may have already received a call from the employer’s insurance company. You may have been told that workers’ compensation is your only option. You may have been asked to sign something. You may have been told the cause is “still under investigation” and that you should wait. Here is the first thing you need to hear: industrial explosions are rarely…

Pecos Train-Truck Collision & Wrongful Death Attorneys: 2 Union Pacific Crew Members Killed When a Heavy-Equipment Tractor-Trailer Stopped on the Tracks at 68 MPH | Attorney911 Brings 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Reeves County, We Pursue the Trucking Company, the Cargo-Securement Entity and Every Carrier Behind the Haul, We Pull the ELD, ECM Black-Box Data and Grade-Crossing Signal Logs Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, FMCSA Crossing Rules and FELA Railroad-Employee Claims, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Pecos Train-Truck Collision: What Happened and What It Means for Your Family If you are reading this page, someone you love was on that Union Pacific train, or inside that building in Pecos when a tractor-trailer stopped on the tracks and the world came apart. You are sitting with a grief that has not yet found its shape, or with a pain in your body you are trying to tell yourself is nothing, while the insurance company’s first call is already coming. We are writing this page to you — not to explain the news, which you already know, but to tell you what the news does not say: what your rights actually are, what the companies are already doing to protect themselves, and what is disappearing right now that your family will never get back if someone does not act to freeze it. A tractor-trailer hauling heavy equipment came to a stop on active Union Pacific railroad tracks at a crossing in Pecos, Reeves County, Texas, in December 2024. It stayed there for approximately one minute. A Union Pacific train traveling about 68 miles per hour struck it after the crew applied emergency brakes. The collision derailed the…