The national fatality rate for gas and oil extraction workers is eight times higher than the average of all occupations. Oil accident related deaths are often gruesome. In 2007, at a drilling site in West Texas, a steel cable sliced an oil rig worker in half. Other workers have died when struck by hunks of metal sent flying when wells …
Woman Killed in Wrong-Way Collision
A 43-year-old woman was killed and two others were injured in a car accident involving three vehicles. Officials say the driver of a westbound car veered left and struck the woman’s eastbound vehicle, which in turn hit another vehicle that was traveling east. The woman was killed in the crash, and the drivers of the other vehicles were hospitalized with …
Understanding Your Right to File Bicyclist Wrongful Death Claims in Texas
When a collision occurs between a bicycle and another larger vehicle, the consequences are often catastrophic or fatal for the bicyclist. According to the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 716 bicyclists were killed in 2008. If your loved one was killed in a bicycle accident due to someone else’s negligence or wrongdoing, you may be able to receive financial …
How to Prevent Construction Accidents
There are nearly 6.5 million people who work at around 252,000 construction sites across America each day. At these construction sites, accidents occur, which cause more fatal injuries than those in any other industry. To help you learn how to prevent construction accidents, here are some tips from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. 1. Check the safety of scaffolding …
What to do if You Were in a Car Accident
We always hope we won’t get in car accidents, but you never know what is going to happen. It is important to know ahead of time what to do if you are ever in a car accident. Here are some guidelines of what you can do at the scene of an accident: 1. Maintain safety at all times: Call 911 …
One Worker Dead and One Missing After Oil Rig Accident
Recently a gulf oil rig platform went up in flames after an explosion on the platform located in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast. One dead body was found by divers and one worker is still missing. There were 22 workers on the platform when the oil rig explosion occurred, according to Coast Guard Capt. Ed Cubanski, chief …
Teenager Killed in Motorcycle Accident
An 18-year-old man was killed in a recent motorcycle accident after striking an object on the roadway. He was wearing a helmet at the time of the accident. There is no information regarding the type of debris he struck or about who may have dropped it on the roadway. According to a report released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic …
What Types of Fractures are Commonly Suffered in Car Accidents?
Broken bones are some of the most common injuries sustained by victims of auto accidents. These injuries or fractures often result in significant pain and require continued treatment—which can be very expensive. There are a number of different types of bone fractures that occur as the result of car accidents: Displaced fracture: the bone snaps into two or more parts …
Nursing Home Worker Pleads Guilty to Abusing Elderly Patient
A 24-year-old woman has been sentenced to prison for abusing an elderly woman at a nursing home. According to News OK, the former nursing home aide was given a seven-year sentence for an incident that occurred in April. Click Here to Call Our Law Office While her co-worker watched, the nursing home aide was videotaped stuffing latex gloves into the …
Paralyzed Texas Girl Writes Drunk Driver a Letter
Recently Xitclalli Vasquez of Fort Worth wrote a letter to the drunk driver who changed her life forever, leaving her paralyzed from the chest down. The nine-year-old hopes her letter will change him forever too. The accident occurred on July 9, 2011, days before she celebrated her eighth birthday. She had just spent the day at North East Mall in …
