Gas Rig Explosion & Wrongful Death in Quinton, Oklahoma: Five Men Killed in the Deadliest U.S. Drilling Accident Since Deepwater Horizon — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Arkoma Basin, We Pursue the Equipment Manufacturers, Well Operators and Drilling Contractors Behind the Blast and Fight the Blame-Shifting That Targets Oilfield Workers Who Can No Longer Speak for Themselves, We Secure the Drilling Logs, Mud Logs and Real-Time Data Before the Overwrite Cycle, OSHA and API Well-Control Standards, Oklahoma Wrongful-Death Act and Modified Comparative Negligence, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
Quinton, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma Gas Rig Explosion: Five Dead, a Manufacturer on Trial, and the Fight to Clear a Worker’s Name The phone call comes in the middle of a shift change or the dead of night. There was an explosion at the rig. They are not saying much yet, but they are saying enough. By the time you reach Quinton — a hundred miles of dark highway southeast of Tulsa through the heart of the Arkoma Basin gas fields — what you find is a site already being controlled by the companies that own it. The equipment that failed is already being photographed by people who work for the manufacturer. The narrative about what happened is already being shaped by insurance adjusters and corporate lawyers whose job is to protect the company, not to tell you the truth. We handle these cases. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and Lupe Peña sat inside a national insurance-defense firm — the rooms where claims like yours are priced, devalued, and delayed — before he came to this side of the table. We know what the company is already doing in the hours after a rig explosion.…