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A fire at a Magellan oil storage tank in Corpus Christi injured seven workers on the morning of Saturday, December 5. First responders arrived on the scene at about 10 AM.
Contractors from Shelton Services were cleaning Magellan's light crude tank when the fire ignited. Near 11 AM, residents...

Oil and gas companies are well aware of the hazards facing oil field storage tank workers doing fluid transfers, sampling, and manual tank gauging. A dangerous mix of chemicals and pressure in oil tanks amplifies the risk of toxic gas inhalation, oxygen deprivation, and death for workers in the...

Ninety percent of accidents in the Oil & Gas sector are a direct result of cost cutting. As a lawyer focused on helping the industry’s victims and their families, I know too well that the vast majority of deadly accidents involving oil tankers, oil and gas pipelines, wells, and offshore...

If you have a loved one in a nursing home, you have every right to be concerned about their health and safety. Nursing home abuse and neglect are real problems that impact far too many of our vulnerable seniors. What’s worse is that many nursing home residents are intimidated and silenced, so...

A lawsuit filed on behalf of a Colorado man who died when a Quinto, Oklahoma oil rig exploded on January 22, 2018, makes new claims of negligence in addition to the safety failures cited in earlier complaints. According to a story from the Associated Press, “Parker Waldridge's family alleges...

Oil and gas field work is dangerous, with some of the highest fatality rates of any industry. The Bakken oilfield, located on both sides of the Montana – North Dakota border, is one of the worst when it comes to worker death and injury.
Since 2006, at least 74 people have died, an...

China’s rapid economic growth is being fuelled by unsustainable and deadly practices, such as fracking. This is polluting the soil and the water reservoirs.
Extracting natural gas through fracking requires drilling several thousand meters deep, and pumping in chemically-laced water....

There is an ongoing debate about whether the economic potential of fracking outweighs its dangers. England can teach the US a great deal about this, as it is one of the countries that both leads the industry of shale gas exploitation and upholds strict rules to enforce safety standards.
Since...

Earlier this year a study by Colorado School of Public Health scholars determined that people who reside within 500 feet of an oil and gas extraction site have a cancer risk eight times higher than the maximum lifetime risk established by the Environmental Protection Agency. Residents of towns...

Landowners located in top-producing U.S. shale plays like the Bakken, Barnett, Eagle Ford, and Haynesville-Bossier are sitting on some seriously valuable property. Deposits in these regions are considered among the world’s richest, with some Eagle Ford landowners collecting over $12,000 per...