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Chemical plants are often dangerous places to work, not only for full-time employees but also for part-time contractors.
A contractor who was replacing pipes at a Celanese Corp. plant in Pasadena, Texas learned that the hard way. According to a new lawsuit, Alfonso Martinez had been told on...

COVID-19 has killed hundreds of oil and gas workers in Mexico. By July 22, the death toll at Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) was 227, a world record for COVID deaths reported at a single company.
Coronavirus infection can spread rapidly on offshore platforms. Hospitals are far away, workers...

On American roads today, more and more innocent victims are being injured and killed in accidents involving distracted driving, and Texas is not an exception. In 2017, a staggering 100,000 crashes were caused by distracted driving in our state. According to Texas’ Department of...

NiSource, whose Massachusetts subsidiary Columbia has been blamed for catastrophic explosions in September 2018 in Andover, Lawrence and North Andover, recently issued a report touting the company’s safety improvements. According to UtilityDive.com, Joe Hamrock, NiSource President and CEO...

Early this year, NJ.com reported that “A lawsuit against a New Jersey gas utility over a gas explosion that destroyed an Elizabeth family's home, injured six, and killed two has ended in a $19.2 million settlement.” According to the court-approved terms of the settlement,...

Last January, five oil workers were killed in a fire and explosion at a Quinton, Oklahoma drilling rig. This was the deadliest drilling accident in the U.S. since 2010, when 11 workers died in the Gulf of Mexico on the Deepwater Horizon rig. Patterson Rig 219 was owned and operated by...

There’s no question working in the oil and gas fields is a dangerous job. Still, most members of the public do not realize just how dangerous it is. In the nine years between 2008 and 2017, 1,566 workers died of injuries sustained while working in oil and gas drilling, and that’s almost...