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Chemical Plant Disasters

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Have You Been Injured in a Chemical Plant Fire or Refinery Accident?

Chemical plants and oil refineries are among the most dangerous job sites in the nation. Poor safety policies, outdated equipment, and meager training programs result in thousands of worker injuries and deaths every year.

Explosions, chemical fume leaks, and fires are tragically common. Even more disturbing, they are often preventable.

Victims of catastrophic plant fires and oil refinery accidents can suffer both physical and mental trauma. We have seen many workers dealing with severe burns, permanent disfigurement, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Our experienced lawyers know how difficult recovery can be and are committed to collecting the maximum financial compensation for our clients, including lost wages, current and future medical expenses, and more.

What Compensation Can Injured Oil Refinery & Chemical Plant Workers Collect?

Plant explosion injuries, chemical fires, and oil refinery accidents can incapacitate a worker for weeks to years. Without the ability to earn income, injured workers face current and future medical bills (often over $100,000) and extensive rehabilitation.

Chemical fire accidents, plant explosions, and oil refinery injuries often cost families far more than they could ever afford.

Workers’ compensation usually only covers medical expenses and lost wages. On the other hand, plant explosion injury claims and refinery accident lawsuits can achieve full financial recovery, including compensation for:

  • Past, current, and future medical expenses
  • Lost past and future wages
  • Pain and suffering
  • Emotional distress
  • Disfigurement/impairment
  • Loss of life enjoyment
  • Wrongful death
  • Loss of consortium

You may also be able to collect punitive damages through a personal injury lawsuit — a significant amount over your actual losses that functions to punish negligent oil and gas companies for their dangerous misconduct.

For these reasons, many injured oil and gas operators, chemical plant workers, oil refinery workers, and other crew members choose to file a personal injury lawsuit. Successful oilfield injury lawsuits can secure the maximum possible compensation for your injuries.

To collect the maximum available compensation for a chemical fire accident or oil refinery injury, you must obtain the guidance of an experienced, aggressive legal team with a solid track record of success against the nation’s most powerful oil and gas companies.

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What Types of Chemical Plant Injuries & Refinery Accidents Qualify for Compensation?

Chemical fires, plant explosions, and oil refinery accidents rarely come without serious injury or loss of life. Defective equipment, poor facility maintenance, and improper use of chemicals are often the cause of these tragic events.

Plant Explosions

Chemical plants are inherently dangerous job sites, dealing with toxic, highly flammable materials on a daily basis. Proper worker training, strict equipment maintenance, and aggressive safety policies are critical to keeping workers safe from toxic chemical burns, gas inhalation, gas fires, and propane explosions.

Plant explosions may be caused by:

  • Electrical equipment malfunction
  • Failure to inspect equipment for combustible gas leaks
  • Faulty boiler maintenance
  • Improper worker safety training
  • Use of improper chemical quantities
  • Use of impure chemicals
  • Use of substandard raw materials/coal dust

Common injuries caused by plant explosions include:

  • Bone fractures
  • Chemical burns and scarring
  • Loss of limbs
  • Lung damage
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Severe burns
  • Shrapnel laceration
  • Spinal injuries
  • Traumatic head injury/brain damage
  • Vision loss/hearing loss

In many cases, petrochemical plant and chemical facility workers may come away from an explosion with little to no obvious injuries, only to develop health problems years later. Explosions can release dangerous carcinogenic gases that, when inhaled, can lead to cancers like leukemia and other complications.

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How Can Our Lawyers Help?

At Williams Attorneys, our lawyers are dedicated to recovering full financial compensation for workers injured at the hands of negligent manufacturers, plant owners, and third-party contractors.

Our superior investigative team works closely with medical experts, industrial safety authorities, and specialized engineers to establish company liability, diving deep for evidence of defective machinery, faulty equipment maintenance, improper chemical storage, negligent safety practices, OSHA violations, and other inexcusable company actions.

We have successfully represented oil crew members injured in oil refinery and chemical plant accidents across the Barnett, Bakken, Haynesville Bossier, Eagle Ford plays, and the Gulf of Mexico, including injured parties of the 2011 Bakken Oilfield Explosion.

If you or a loved one were injured or lost their life in an industrial accident, you deserve the maximum financial compensation available. 

Contact Williams Attorneys today for a free, confidential, no-obligation case consultation.

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