Oilfield Injuries

Oilfield and Oil Rig Accident Lawyer

Oilfield Injuries:
Oilfield injury accidents can include fires, explosions, electrocutions, equipment malfunctions, rig collapses, and deadly falls.

The oilfield is a dangerous place to work. Oilfield injuries are frequent in all phases of oil and gas well drilling. Injuries may occur during testing, completion, frac jobs, wireline operations and other oil well work over activities. When things go wrong in this hostile and fast-paced work environment, the injuries can be tragic. Hard-working toolpushers, drillers, roughnecks, roustabouts, and others in the oil field often suffer serious injuries that include back, neck and shoulder injuries; which are common in connection with handling and working around heavy oilfield and oil rig equipment. Hazardous and explosive conditions in oil fields and oil rigs can also lead to falls, electrocutions and well blowouts that result in amputations, crush injuries, paralysis, broken bones, burns, head trauma, and brain trauma. Many of these oilfield injury accidents, including fires, explosions, valve failures, equipment malfunctions, and rig collapses, are preventable when all parties and companies follow established oilfield safety guidelines and procedures.

Oilfield Injuries and Deaths

If you are seriously injured while working in the oilfield, there is a good chance that your oil field employer will not have adequate financial resources to cover your expenses. Your oil field employer may be unwilling to help beyond simple workers compensation benefits. Injured oilfield workers should be aware that workers compensation insurance has very real and significant limitations. For this reason, it is imperative that the utmost care be taken in determining each and every party, in addition to your employer, that played a role in causing your injury. Often, other entities, or third (3rd) parties such as a contractor, drilling contractor, company man, equipment owner, equipment leaser, subcontractor, tool manufacturer, product manufacturer, or fabricator, may be negligent or responsible for lapses in safety, design, manufacture, use, or maintenance that directly lead to an oilfield accident. In oil field accidents involving serious injuries or deaths resulting from dangerous, defective equipment or catastrophic equipment failure, it is essential that the injured oilfield worker or family hire an experienced attorney as soon as possible in order to preserve the evidence, document and photograph the scene, interview witnesses and start the investigation needed to file a lawsuit and prosecute the case.

Oilfield Injury and Wrongful Death Lawyer

If you or a loved one has been seriously injured, then you may have the right to file a legal action. The Willis Law Firm has represented dozens of seriously injured oilfield workers and families of oilfield workers. Mr. Willis is a Board Certified Personal Injury Trial Lawyer certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Attorney David P. Willis has practiced personal injury law and products liability law for over twenty three years. Let his extensive professional experience in personal injury guide you and your family through this difficult time.

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