Category: Texas Plant Explosions
OSHA just released a list of the top ten violations for 2022. Each year, they make a list to determine the most commonly found OSHA violations in the workplace. They do so that they can then work to address the major common issues and help companies mitigate risk in the future so that their workers […]
The Environmental Protection Agency has delayed new regulations meant to safeguard you from serious harm, even death, in Houston and around the nation. Huge petrochemical plants including those found in and around the Houston and Beaumont-Port Arthur areas are surrounded by millions of people in so called “fence line” communities, populations directly at risk should […]
The explosion in West, Texas, is a perfect example why tougher rules on chemical plant safety are needed. In 2013, a devastating chemical explosion ripped through the town of West, Texas. The West Fertilizer plant explosion killed 15 people, injured over 200, and destroyed 500 homes. Later investigations found that the explosion was preventable. According […]
Pipeline accidents are becoming a more common occurrence in Texas and across the nation. Last month two workers were killed and another was injured when they were repairing a gas pipeline just outside the Southcross Energy facility near Woodsboro, Texas. According to Houston Public Media, the two workers who died were in a hole repairing […]
The Callahan Law Firm extends its deepest sympathy to all suffering from the West, Texas plant explosion. A deadly Texas plant explosion devastating the town of West killed at least 14 people, many of them volunteer firefighters, injured about 200 others, and destroyed homes within a four-to-five block radius of the 10-acre West Fertilizer Co. […]