Ammonium Nitrate Explosion at the West Fertilizer Co. in West, Texas — 15 Killed, 200 Injured, 300+ Homes Destroyed: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Industrial Explosion and Premises Liability Litigation, We Pursue the Plant Operator, the Chemical Suppliers and the Corporate Parent Stack Behind Tons of Ammonium Nitrate Stored in Wooden Bins Without Fire Barriers or Sprinklers Adjacent to Homes, a School and a Nursing Home in Violation of OSHA Storage Standards and the EPA Risk Management Program, We Secure the CSB Investigation Findings, the ATF Origin-and-Cause Report and the OSHA Inspection History Before the Insurer’s Claims Team Controls the Record, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Industrial Disaster Claims, Blast Trauma, Thermal Burns, Crush Injuries and Traumatic Brain Injury to Wrongful Death — the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims and Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases, Texas Gross-Negligence and Exemplary-Damages Doctrine for Conscious Indifference to Known Explosive Hazards — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
West, Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion: The Ammonium Nitrate Disaster That Killed 15, Injured 200, and Erased 300 Homes If you are reading this because an industrial explosion tore through your community — because you lost a home, a neighbor, a family member, or the town you grew up in — you are in the right place. Not because anything we write can undo what happened, but because the law has something to say about who is responsible, and what they owe, and how you force the answer out of a company that would rather call it an accident. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm. We handle industrial explosion and catastrophic injury cases in Texas. Ralph Manginello has spent 27+ years in courtrooms, including federal court, and before he was a lawyer he was a journalist — which means he learned early that the story the company tells on the first day is never the story the evidence tells by the third month. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm, in the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like you. He now sits on your side of the table.…