Oil and Gas Field Injuries
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex owes a good deal of its development to oil and gas, and thus to oil and gas field workers. Unfortunately, many of those workers have been harmed or even maimed by oil and gas field injuries. These avoidable injuries are caused by lax oil and gas field safety standards, outdated rules and penalties, a scarcity of inspectors and the desire for quick profits.
Overseen by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the oil and gas field industry has historically enjoyed remarkable immunity to the enforcement of safety standards and penalties. In fact, state safety fines have often been insultingly low, levying companies with penalties in the mere hundreds of dollars after repeated oil and gas field injuries that cripple, or even after accidents that cause an avoidable wrongful death.
It doesn't help that the work environment is inherently hazardous. Oil and gas field injuries are exacerbated by the extreme nature of the work, as described in this expose by Ray Ring in the High Country News:
"All that machinery can hurt or kill from just about any angle.... Workers get crushed by rig collapses. They fall off the maze of steel ledges. They get caught in spinning chains, winches and cables.... They get slammed by valves and pipes that explode under high pressure. They get hit by lightning, freeze to death and die of heat stroke, because the work takes place outside, and it goes on 24/7, 365 days a year, pretty much no matter what."
The Law Offices of Steven C. Laird, P.C.: Your Dallas Oil and Gas Field Injury Lawyers
As with construction accidents and crane accidents, it's worth seeking an experienced law firm for your Dallas oil and gas field injury case. Personal injury law is already a complex specialization, but oil and gas field injury law is further complicated by oil and gas industry terminology and state and federal regulations.
If you are seeking justice in an oil and gas field injury case, consider talking to the Law Offices of Steven C. Laird, P.C. Our seasoned legal staff is familiar with the oil and gas field injury specialty and can vigorously represent you in your case. Feel free to contact us for a free legal review of your case.
