Fertilizer Plant Explosion & Industrial Fire Attorneys in West, TX — 15 Dead, 260 Injured When Ammonium Nitrate Stored in Combustible Wooden Bins With No Sprinklers Detonated Near Homes, a School and a Nursing Home on April 17, 2013, Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue West Fertilizer Company and the Ammonium Nitrate Suppliers Behind the Blast, We Secure the CSB Investigation Findings, OSHA Storage Records and Blast-Damage Documentation Before Evidence Is Lost, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Catastrophic Cases, Texas Gross Negligence Law Supports Exemplary Damages for Conscious Disregard of Extreme Risk, 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 Explosion: When a Town Becomes the Blast Radius If you are reading this because someone you love was taken from you by an industrial explosion — or because you were standing in your kitchen when the sky turned white and the walls came in — you already know something that the rest of the country learned from a distance. You know that an ammonium nitrate detonation does not happen at the fence line. It happens at the dinner table. It happens at the school desk. It happens in the nursing home bed. And you know, in a way no investigation report can fully capture, that what happened was not an accident. It was a decision someone made, years before the fire started, to store tons of a detonable chemical in a wooden building with no sprinklers — next to houses, next to a school, next to people who were never told what was sitting in their backyard. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Texas catastrophic-injury and wrongful-death cases, built around a simple principle: the company’s choices are the case. What follows is our forensic legal analysis of…