Texas Refinery Explosions Continue in Mont Belvieu Enterprise Products Facility Near Houston

Texas has long been a beacon of oil refineries, gas production, petroleum refining and other related industries. Our wide open spaces make for a great environment for these natural products to be worked on. One of these companies, which is headquartered in Houston, Texas, is Enterprise Products. This week, their facility in Mont Belvieu, Texas suffered a loud and very visible plant fire, just east of Houston in their West Storage Facility. The cause of the fire is believed by many right now to be a failed pump in an above-ground pipe rack area.

At first, Enterprise reported no injuries. However, families soon began asking questions. One such family never got any news and later found out that their loved one had been killed in the Texas refinery explosion. One could think of this event as an unfortunate mishap, but if you follow the news, you would know that this is not the first recent brush with a wrongful death for the company. Enterprise Products operates 49,100 miles of natural gas, NGL crude oil, refined products and petrochemical pipelines around the world. Several plant workers were left dead in June of last year after a gas line owned by Enterprise ruptured.

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Texas has more refineries than any other state, so it is understandable that we have more refinery accidents. But the level of death, toxic exposure, and other personal injuries in the past few years for our workers has become staggering. In this incident, sadly the body of a contract worker was later found at the Chambers County plant by a local search and rescue crew.

Houston, Texas petrochemical accident attorneys have expert, specialized knowledge of both federal and state laws that apply to chemicals and gas. Explosion lawyers should have worked with both the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines on a regular basis. This is the only way to tell who is at fault if you get hurt at a plant.

OSHA reports the number of fatal refinery incidents is more than the combination of the next three highest industries. The fatalities are typically caused by a gaseous release or in the construction and maintenance of oil refineries. When a worker is employed at a Texas refinery or on a natural gas pipeline, he or she will be at a risk for explosions and fires because of the nature of the products being used. There are often contract workers, borrowed servants, and other non-employees on these job sites at the time accidents like this occur. The injuries can range from mild post-traumatic stress disorder or PTSD to severe traumatic brain injury from a significant impact.

Texas Refinery Explosions Continue in Mont Belvieu Enterprise Products Facility Near Houston

Texas refinery explosion lawyer Stacey E. Burke. of Schechter, McElwee, Shaffer & Harris, LLP personal injury law firm has worked with numerous individuals who have been seriously injured as the result of someone else's negligence. Our firm's Texas Personal Injury attorneys are here to help you through the difficulties of your injury case. Our TX law firm represents plaintiffs against insurance companies, trucking companies, maritime employers, government agencies, hospitals, nursing homes, pharmaceutical companies and others,, handling most Texas Personal Injury and Wrongful Death cases. You can count on our law firm's 45 years of experience handling tens of thousands of claims.

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