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_______________________________________________________________ Industrial Accident Claims and Plant Explosion
Claims
Industrial
accidents including plant explosions, pipeline leaks, and
chemical releases can cause catastrophic damages, severe
injuries and even mass deaths. Industrial accidents are a
potential danger for people working in the heavy industry as
well as neighbors and innocent bystanders that were at the
wrong place at the wrong time. Those that live close to
heavy industries can be at risk and should be aware of any
dangers in their environments. Heavy industry has many
benefits and is necessity for our modern World, but those
running them have a duty to protect workers, neighbors, and
innocent bystanders from known dangers by maintaining safety
and limiting unnecessary risks.
If one or
more of your family
members have been killed in an industrial accident, you have
been seriously injured in an industrial accident, or have
suffered significant damages from an industrial accident,
feel free to contact Texas Industrial Accident Lawyer Jason
Coomer
via e-mail or submission
form for a free online review of your potential
Industrial Accident Claim.
Industrial Accident
Claims and Mass Tort Claims
Industrial
accidents and other mass tort claims including chemical
plant explosions, chemical releases, large warehouse
fires, and pipeline explosions cause mass destruction
including death, personal injuries, and significant damage.
Because of our global economy, these industrial accidents
can take place any place in the United States or in the
World, but be caused by greedy corporations and negligent
people in Texas or other parts of the United States. In many instances following a large
industrial accident the families of the victims have a
difficult time locating a Texas Industrial Accident Lawyer
or United States Industrial Accident Lawyer
to handle accidental death claims, personal injury claims,
or property damage claims against Texas corporations or
United States corporations that
made negligent safety decisions. Working with other
Texas Industrial Accident Lawyers and United States
Industrial Accident Lawyers, Jason Coomer is able to assist
people that have suffered the loss of family members,
serious personal injuries, and significant property damage
from large industrial accidents.
Under Texas law those
that make money and control heavy industries have a duty to
be aware of potential dangers. They also have a duty to
actively work to minimize dangers that they are aware of
that could kill, poison, burn, or injure people or cause
significant damage to property. Further, careless people or
businesses that have made decisions to save money and these
decisions have resulted in a catastrophic industrial
accident should be held responsible for there actions.
Families, businesses, and communities that have suffered
significant damages from large explosions, chemical spills,
fires, train derailment, flooding, or other large industrial
accident need to be compensated. In some circumstances
injured people, the family of a lost loved one, or a
businesses can recover damages under Texas law.
Catastrophic Industrial Accidents that have Caused
Death and Injuries
Below are
some large industrial accidents that have caused substantial
damage. Be careful and protect yourself and those that you
love.
-CAI
Inc. Plant Explosion
- Danvers, Massachusetts -
November 22,
2006
- Could be
heard up to 20 miles away
- About 90
homes damaged and around 25 on those were destroyed
- Approximately 10 people were injured
-BP Plant Explosion
-
Texas City, Texas - March 23, 2005
- Killed 15
and injured 170 people
- BP set
aside 1.6 billion to take care of the damages caused -The Explosion
-
Texas City, Texas -
April 16, 1947
- The blast
took nearly 600 lives
- Millions of
dollars in property, and it scarred the town -Formosa
Plastics Corp. Explosions and Chemical Releases
-
Point Comfort, Texas -
October 6, 2005 and Illiopolis,
Indiana - April 24, 2004
-
Five people killed
- Several
others injured -Union
Carbide Chemical Tragedy -
Bhopal, India -
December 3, 1984
- 15,000
people died
- Tons of
poisonous chemicals are still exposed to the environment
- Soil
samples show other toxic materials have leached underground,
contaminating the
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