Texas Personal Injury

Jul 21, 2026

Industrial Explosion & Ammonium Nitrate Detonation Attorneys — the West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Blast That Rocked the I-35 Corridor, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Facility Operators, Chemical Suppliers and Equipment Manufacturers Behind the Blast, the Physics of Ammonium Nitrate Decomposition and the Shock Wave That Struck Nearby Homes, a Nursing Home and a School, We Secure the OSHA Storage Records, EPA Risk-Management Filings and CSB Investigation Findings Before They Disappear, Texas Gross-Negligence and Wrongful-Death Doctrine for Exemplary Damages, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Mass-Casualty Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion: Your Legal Rights After the April 17, 2013 Ammonium Nitrate Disaster The night of April 17, 2013, changed West, Texas forever. If you are reading this page, you already know that — you lived it. A fertilizer plant in your town stored tons of ammonium nitrate, and on that Wednesday night it detonated. Fifteen people died. Over 260 were injured. A nursing home, a school, homes, and the lives of families across McLennan County were torn open in a blast that shook the foundations of buildings along I-35 and was felt for miles. What you may not know yet — what the insurance company is counting on you not knowing — is that the facility operator reportedly carried only about $1 million in liability insurance. For a disaster that killed 15 and injured 260, that is a fraction of a fraction of what it will take to make your family whole. The good news, and the reason this page exists, is that the facility operator is almost certainly not the only party who can be held accountable. The real recovery in a case like this lives in the defendant stack — the chemical suppliers, the…

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Jul 21, 2026

Valero McKee Refinery Explosion & Burn-Injury Attorneys: 19 Injured in Sunray, Moore County, Texas Propane De-Asphalting Unit Blast, 3 Critical Burn Victims Transported 120 Miles to the Lubbock Burn Unit — Attorney911 Pursues the Refiner and the Contractors Behind the Fire, We Secure the OSHA Process Safety Management Records, Mechanical-Integrity Files and Chemical Safety Board Findings Before the PDA Unit Is Rebuilt and the Evidence Is Scrapped, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Non-Subscriber Law Strips the Employer’s Defenses When It Elects Not to Carry Workers’ Comp, Burn and Amputation ($3.8M+ Recovered), the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Explosion at Sunray: What a Refinery Fire Really Means for the People Inside It If you are reading this from a hospital bed in Lubbock, or from a kitchen table in Dumas or Sunray where someone you love is not coming home the same person they were before, we are talking to you. The smoke plume from the McKee Refinery was visible from sixty miles away — people in Amarillo looked north and saw it rising. That is how large the release was. But the distance that matters most is not the sixty miles the smoke traveled. It is the one hundred and twenty miles between Sunray and the nearest burn unit in Lubbock, because that is the distance your loved one was carried while the burns on their body kept doing damage. And it is the distance between what the company will tell you happened and what the evidence will show actually happened. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle refinery accident cases and catastrophic industrial injury claims in Texas. This page is built around a real incident — the February 2007 explosion and fire at the Valero Energy Corp. McKee Refinery in Sunray,…

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Jul 20, 2026

One Killed, Ten Injured in the Midland, Texas Loop 250 Mass Shooting — Ed Scott, 62, a Midland City Employee, Dead After a Fugitive Turned an Unsecured Abandoned Building Into a Fortified Firing Position on Passing Cars, Bystanders and Officers — Attorney911 Pursues the Negligent Property Owners and Corporate Entities Including Giti Tire Behind Vacant Commercial Structures, We Secure Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Erases It, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Premises Liability Cases, Texas Wrongful Death Act and Premises Liability Law Hold Owners Accountable for Foreseeable Third-Party Criminal Acts, the Texas Crime Victims’ Compensation Fund Offers Immediate Help, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases and $50M+ Total — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland, Texas Shooting: Legal Rights After the Loop 250 Tragedy If you are reading this in the hours or days after the shooting near Loop 250 in Midland, you are probably in one of three places: a hospital room at Midland Memorial, a kitchen table where someone’s chair is now empty, or a phone screen at 2 a.m. trying to understand whether anything can be done when the man who pulled the trigger is already dead. We are going to tell you the truth about that, and the truth is more complicated than what you have heard on the news. The shooter’s death closed one door. It did not close all of them. What happened on that Friday morning in Midland was not an act of God, and it was not a random bolt of violence that no one could have prevented. A fugitive wanted for attempted capital murder of a police officer — a man law enforcement had been hunting for over thirty hours — opened fire on passing cars, bystanders, and officers near the Victorian Inn before barricading himself inside an abandoned veterinary clinic. He killed one person and injured ten others. Two of the injured were still…

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Jul 20, 2026

68-Year-Old Woman Found Dead at an Odessa, Texas Self-Storage Facility: Premises Liability & Wrongful Death — When Police Report No Foul Play, That Addresses Whether a Crime Occurred, Not Whether a Dangerous Condition at a Minimally Staffed Storage Facility Contributed to This Death, Attorney911 Pursues the Facility Operator, Property Owner and Management Company, We Move to Preserve Surveillance Footage, Keypad Access Logs and Maintenance Records Before the 30-to-90-Day Overwrite Cycle, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, Texas Premises Law Owes Storage-Facility Entrants the Duty to Inspect and Warn of Hazardous Conditions, Millions Recovered in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Woman Found Dead at Odessa Storage Facility: What Families Need to Know About Premises Liability, Evidence Preservation, and Wrongful Death in Texas Someone in your family is gone. A 68-year-old woman — a mother, a grandmother, a neighbor, a person with a full life behind her — was found dead at a storage facility in north Odessa on a Tuesday evening, near Bennefield, and the police have said the words that every grieving family hears and misunderstands: no foul play is suspected. You are reading this at a kitchen table, or in a parked car, or at 2 a.m. when the house is quiet and the questions will not stop. We are going to answer every one of those questions, honestly, and we are going to tell you what the law actually says about what happened — not what the news said, not what the facility’s management implied, and not what the insurance adjuster who may already be circling wants you to believe. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial lawyers who take wrongful death and premises liability cases in Texas. We are writing this for one purpose: to give you the education, the legal…

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Jul 20, 2026

FM-715 and CR-140 Stop-Sign Fatal Collision in Midland, Midland County, Texas: Two Dead, One Seriously Injured When a Pickup Ran the Right-of-Way at This Rural Permian Basin Crossroad — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Rural Intersection Wrongful-Death and Serious-Injury Cases, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate and Every Insurance Policy Including Your Own UM/UIM When the Other Driver Carries Little or No Coverage, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Carriers Value and Deny These Claims, We Move to Preserve the EDR Black-Box Data and DPS Crash Report Before the Vehicles Are Scrapped, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Doctrine Gives Surviving Family Standing While Modified Comparative Negligence Bars Recovery Only Above 50 Percent Fault, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Fatal Midland Crash at FM-715 and CR-140: Your Rights After a Stop-Sign Collision Killed Two and Injured One If you are reading this because someone you love was in that Silverado on FM-715 — or because you lost someone in that Colorado on CR-140 — you are sitting in the hardest hours of your life, and the legal system is already moving around you whether you know it or not. The Texas Department of Public Safety has confirmed what happened: a westbound vehicle on County Road 140 failed to yield at the stop sign that controls that intersection and entered the path of a northbound truck on FM-715. Two people did not survive. One was taken to Midland Memorial Hospital with serious injuries. The weather was clear. Every person was wearing a seatbelt. None of that was enough, because a stop sign only works when the driver stops. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We handle motor vehicle accident cases and wrongful death claims across Texas, and we are writing this page for one person: the one sitting at a kitchen table in Midland County right now, trying to understand what comes next. What comes next is not…

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Jul 20, 2026

Three Dead in East Highway 80 Shooting, Midland County: Attorney911 Pursues the Property Owner and Security Contractor When Foreseeable Criminal Violence Goes Unprevented on the Permian Basin Corridor, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Pull Surveillance Footage and Prior Calls-for-Service Before the Overwrite Erases the Proof, Texas Wrongful-Death and Survival Actions for Surviving Spouses, Children and Parents, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Three Dead in Midland County Shooting on East Highway 80: Your Family’s Legal Rights If you are reading this, someone you love was one of the three people found dead from gunshot wounds on the morning of June 22, 2026, in the 5400 block of East Highway 80 in Midland County. You are in the first hours or days after a death that does not make sense, and the sheriff’s office is still investigating. That investigation will take time. The evidence that decides whether your family has a case will not wait. This is not a news summary. This is the legal landscape your family is standing in right now, written by the trial team at Attorney911. We handle shooting and wrongful death cases in Texas. We wrote this page because the most important things happening around your loved one’s death are invisible: the surveillance footage from businesses along that corridor that is already being overwritten on a rolling cycle, the 911 recordings sitting in a dispatch system, the prior police calls to that same address that may show whether the property owner knew the danger was there. Every one of those records is on a clock, and some of…

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Jul 20, 2026

Fallen Ector County Firefighter Lt. Isai Huerta, Who Died June 14 From Injuries Sustained Battling an Odessa Trailer-Home Fire: Wrongful Death Attorneys at Attorney911 Bring Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to the Permian Basin, We Pursue the Property Owners, Equipment Manufacturers and Third Parties Behind Fatal Trailer-Home Fires When Workers’ Comp Is Not the Only Remedy, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Line-of-Duty Death Cases, We Move to Preserve the Lubbock Autopsy Report, Fire Cause-and-Origin Findings, SCBA and Turnout Gear, Dispatch Audio and Incident-Command Logs Before the Fire Scene Is Remediated and Radio Recordings Are Lost to Auto-Delete Cycles, Texas Wrongful Death and Survival Doctrine With the Workers’-Comp Exclusive-Remedy Barrier and Its Gross-Negligence Exception, the Firefighter’s Rule and Its Limits, NFPA and Texas Commission on Fire Protection Standards, the Statute of Limitations Running From the Date of Death, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Odessa, Ector County, Texas: When a Firefighter Falls, the Family Has Questions the System Is Not Volunteering More than 150 first responders from several states traveled to Odessa in June 2026 to honor a man who died doing what every one of them has sworn to do — run toward the fire. Lt. Isai Huerta, an Ector County firefighter, died on June 14 from injuries he suffered while battling a trailer home fire in Odessa. His body was taken to Lubbock, roughly 150 miles northeast, for autopsy — a distance that tells you the system itself recognized this death required a look from outside the responding jurisdiction. A public funeral was held at the Ector County Coliseum. The community showed up. That showing is not ceremony; it is evidence of something the law cares about — this man’s life had measurable value to the people who depended on him, and the circumstances of his death deserve an answer that goes deeper than a death certificate. We are writing this page for one person: the family member who is sitting at a kitchen table in Odessa or Midland or anywhere across the Permian Basin, being told that workers’ compensation is the…

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Jul 20, 2026

Ed Scott, Midland, Texas City Employee and Longtime Umpire, Fatally Shot in a Mass Shooting on His Way to Work: Attorney911 Pursues Wrongful-Death and Negligent-Security Claims Against the Property Owners and Security Operators Who Failed to Prevent Foreseeable Gun Violence, the Going-and-Coming Rule That Bars Workers’ Comp for Commuting Employees Points to Negligent Security as the Primary Civil Theory, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Move to Preserve Surveillance Footage, Prior-Incident Reports and Police Calls-for-Service Before the Overwrite, Texas Wrongful-Death Doctrine and Premises-Liability Foreseeability, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Midland, Texas Mass Shooting — What Families Need to Know About Legal Rights After a Shooting Death If you are reading this because someone you love was killed or injured in a mass shooting in Midland, Texas — we want you to hear this first: what happened to your family is not something you “move on” from. It is something you survive, and the law gives you tools to hold people accountable who could have prevented it. The fact that you are searching for legal information right now, in the middle of grief, tells us you are already doing the hardest part — protecting your family’s future while everything feels like it is falling apart. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We handle wrongful death and catastrophic-injury cases across Texas, including cases that involve mass-shooting wrongful death claims and negligent security / premises liability claims against property owners who failed to protect the people on their land. This page is written for you — the person at the kitchen table at 2 a.m. with a phone full of unanswered messages and a future that just changed shape. Everything below is legal information, not legal advice. Everything below…

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Jul 20, 2026

Head-On Crash on FM 1788 Near Andrews, Texas — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Rural Permian Basin Highway Collisions, We Pursue the At-Fault Driver’s Estate and Auto Insurer When an Unsafe Passing Maneuver Crosses the Centerline Into Oncoming Traffic, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Head-On Injury Claims, We Move to Secure the DPS Crash Report and Both Vehicles’ EDR Data Before the 30-Day Overwrite, Even Injuries First Called Minor in a 71-Year-Old Like Charles Troxell Can Reveal Delayed Cervical and Brain Trauma After a Head-On Impact at Highway Speed, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Comparative-Fault Doctrine and UM/UIM Recovery Rights When the At-Fault Driver Is Deceased — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Andrews, Texas FM 1788 Head-On Collision: When an Unsafe Pass on a Two-Lane Highway Changes Everything If you are reading this, you were probably on FM 1788 on a Friday afternoon. Or someone you love was. A southbound driver decided to pass another vehicle on a two-lane Farm-to-Market road in Andrews County, in the oil patch of West Texas. The pass was unsafe. A northbound vehicle was right there, in its own lane, doing what it was supposed to do. The impact was head-on. One driver did not survive. The other was loaded into an ambulance and driven roughly thirty-five miles south to Medical Center Hospital in Odessa — the regional Level II trauma center for the Permian Basin — where the word they heard was “minor injuries.” We need to talk about that word. “Minor.” We handle car accident cases across Texas, and the single most dangerous word in your case is the one the hospital used before the full picture developed. A head-on collision on a rural highway — where the speed limit is often 70 mph and two vehicles closing on each other can combine for a closing speed above 140 mph — does not produce “minor”…

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Jul 20, 2026

Fatal Shooting of Matthew Cody Kintzel on a Rural Andrews County, Texas Property Where the Texas Rangers Lead the Investigation, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Wrongful-Death and Negligent-Security Cases From Firearm Violence on Isolated Properties, We Pursue the At-Fault Shooter, the Negligent Property Owner and the Firearm Owner Who Enabled the Harm, We Move to Preserve the Autopsy Findings, Crime-Scene Ballistics and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite Cycle Erases Them, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, Texas Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault 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

Andrews County Fatal Shooting: Your Legal Rights After the Death of Matthew Cody Kintzel If you are reading this page at two in the morning, someone you love is gone and the silence around how they died is its own kind of wound. The Andrews County Sheriff’s Office responded to a residence in the 2000 block of Southeast 2700 on the evening of June 12, 2026, and found Matthew Cody Kintzel deceased inside a building on the property. The Texas Rangers took over the investigation. An autopsy was performed three days later at the Texas Panhandle Forensic Center in Lubbock — 120 miles of dark highway northeast of Andrews — and no findings have been released. No suspect has been named. No manner of death has been disclosed. The investigation, in the words of the Texas Department of Public Safety, remains ongoing. We cannot give you back what was taken. What this page can do is tell you the truth about your legal rights while that investigation runs — about the evidence that is already beginning to disappear on its own clock, about the civil remedies that exist in parallel with the criminal case, and about the decisions that must…

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