West, Texas

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…

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.…

Industrial Explosion & Mass-Casualty Wrongful Death in West, McLennan County, Texas: The Ammonium Nitrate Detonation at the West Fertilizer Company That Killed 15 Including 10 Volunteer Firefighters and Injured Hundreds — Attorney911 Pursues the Facility Operators and Chemical Suppliers Behind 40-60 Tons of Detonable Oxidizer Stored Without Sprinklers or NFPA 400 Compliance in a Wood-Frame Building Adjacent to Homes, Schools and a Nursing Home, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Avvo-Rated Excellent, We Secure the CSB Findings, ATF Origin-and-Cause Records, EPA Tier II Filings and OSHA Process-Safety Documentation Before Corporate Entities Dissolve and Insurance Policies Lapse, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values Mass-Casualty Industrial Claims, Texas Gross Negligence Doctrine and Strict Liability for Abnormally Dangerous Activities, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ Total 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 an Industrial Disaster If you lost someone in the West Fertilizer Company explosion, or if you were injured when the blast tore through your home, your school, or your town on April 17, 2013, you already know what happened. You felt it. What you may not know is that the people who stored forty to sixty tons of a detonable chemical in a wooden building with no sprinklers, next to homes and a nursing home and a school, had options they chose not to take — and the law in Texas holds that kind of choice accountable. We are Attorney911, The Manginello Law Firm, and this page is for the families of West, McLennan County, Texas who are trying to understand what rights they still have after one of the worst industrial disasters in Texas history. Fifteen people died. Ten of them were firefighters — volunteers who ran toward a fire they were never warned was sitting on top of a bomb. Hundreds were injured. A hundred million dollars in property damage spread across twenty-five city blocks. A ninety-foot crater where a building used to stand. And the official investigation said…