Drilling Accident Lawyer

You Deserve Full Compensation for Your Drilling Rig and Pipeline On the Job Injuries

Whether drilling for oil or natural gas in Texas, there aren’t many jobs as dangerous as working on a drilling rig or petroleum pipeline system. Because the price of gasoline, natural gas is quite profitable, the industry is working day-and-night to meet the even greater demand world to quench the industrialized world’s seemingly endless thirst for these petroleum products.

Due to this demand, and the technological advances of the past 20 years, oilfields again, along with new natural gas fields are beehives of activity.

The downside of the renewal of the region’s petroleum affluence is an alarming increase of serious drilling and pipeline accident injuries. It’s sad enough that many of them are preventable, but someone’s negligence, even if it was momentary. A lot of them are the product of cutting production corners, or the use of old equipment that might not be as reliable as it once was. Another factor is the workers themselves. For days on-end they are being pushed beyond their physical limits by being “encouraged” to work many hours of overtime and double shifts. Granted, they’re making pretty good money, so long as they can work. The sad shortcoming that is characterized by speed, corporate greed, and often questionable judgment makes it a small wonder that so many tragic injuries often result in drillers rushing to meet heightened market demands and disregarding the consequences that lead to this dreadful spike in oil production and pipeline accidents.

If you’ve suffered an injury in a drilling rig or pipeline accident, or if a loved one of yours has been killed in this tragic work environment, what do you do? How will your medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, or disability (short-term or permanent) be paid? If a death is involved, who pays for the funeral and your surviving family’s devastating loss? Who will protect your rights when you or a family member is hurt just because he was following orders on the rig or pipeline that delivers unbelievably huge profits for the employer, at the expense of the unfortunate workers? An experienced drilling accident lawyer is your best option in order to receive fair and just compensation for all the damages arising from the on-the-job accident you’ve suffered on a drilling rig or pipeline.

Since workers’ compensation governs nearly all of Texas injury law, you must first know whether or not your petro-employer has this insurance. It will cover some reimbursement for many of your medical expenses, a little more than half of your lost wages, and a modest amount for your pain and suffering. Also, did any third parties past the workers’ comp subscribing employer or the company that manages the project, contribute to your injuries? If there are, they too can be a source of liability-generated compensation for your damages. Basically, the ability to obtain fair compensation is predicated on the ability of your oilfield accident attorney to clarify the events of the mishap, determine what caused it, and effectively identify every liable party who is responsible for your injury and owes you legal damages.

Getting to the bottom of oilfield worker liability cases is seldom easy, even under the most favorable of investigative circumstances. Each case usually has a lot of subjective elements and strategies arising from them which make every injury unique. Some of them include the involved parties, how they are insured, and the legal recourse necessary to bring each liable defendant in your case to justice. And while we’re at it, remember that the behemoth petroleum-industrial complex is operating in a seller’s market because everyone wants what they have. This not only creates record profits for them but also gives them too much influence when they are called to account to pay for their negligence that produces accidents. They’ll wield that power to deny your claim and fight your civil lawsuit to protect their almost usury profits. Without an experienced drilling accident attorney to represent them, injured oil and gas drilling and pipeline workers such as yourself are little more than a minor irritant, one they can make go away with hardly any trouble.

Our drilling and pipeline accident attorneys have a track record of resolving injury claims and civil cases on behalf of injured oilfield workers in Texas. This body of success dates back over 20 years. So you can be confident that you are retaining an experienced firm that is capable of winning the largest reasonable drilling rig or petroleum pipeline work-injury settlement for your accident case. But without such experienced legal counsel, it’s not very likely you or your family can accomplish this very important goal in the wake of your petroleum job accident.