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Industrial Accident Lawsuits and Texas Plant Explosion
Lawsuits
Industrial
accidents including plant explosions can cause catastrophic damages, severe
injuries and even death. A number of safety violations
can cause a plant explosion including chemical releases,
failure to provide proper maintenance, combustible dust,
improperly trained staff, and old equipment.
If one or
more of your family
members have been killed or injured in a plant explosion or
other industrial accident, feel free to contact Texas Plant
Explosion Lawyer Jason
Coomer
via e-mail or submission
form for a free online review of your potential
Plant Explosion Lawsuit or Industrial Accident Claim.
United States and Texas Plant Explosions
As Texas and the United States have become
more industrialized Plant Explosions and other industrial
accidents have become more and more common. This has
become especially true with aging infrastructure of many
industrial plants and the
corporation controlled OSHA safety agency that has
weakened safety regulations and protections for workers.
These factors combined with many corporations deciding to
save money at the expense of worker safety have lead to many
devastating plant explosions and industrial accidents.
Below are some Texas Plant Explosions and
United States Plant Explosions that have made news because
of the devastation that they have caused.
-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
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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
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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
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Point Comfort, Texas -
October 6, 2005 and Illiopolis,
Indiana - April 24, 2004
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Five people killed
- Several
others injured Plant Explosions and
Combustible Dust
Combustible Dust is problem that has been
know for years. For those familiar with the grain
industry, it is commonly understood that grain dust is more
flammable than grain. It is hard to burn grain, but if
you have a large pile of grain dust the small particles
become more flammable. For this reason there are
several regulations on the grain industry to prevent fires
and explosions. Likewise other materials like metal
are typically not flammable, but when in dust form they
become flammable and in large quantities can cause a plant
explosion. 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.
-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
water supply 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.
United States Plant Explosion
Lawyers, Texas Plant Explosion Lawyers, and Industrial
Accident Lawyers
Texas Plant
Explosion Lawyer, Jason Coomer, commonly works with other
Texas Plant Explosion Lawyers including Houston Plant
Explosion Lawyers, Dallas Plant Explosion Lawyers, and El
Paso Plant Explosion Lawyers. He also works with Plant
Explosion Lawyers throughout the United States and the
World.
If one or
more of your family
members have been killed or injured in a plant explosion or
other industrial accident, feel free to contact Texas Plant
Explosion Lawyer Jason
Coomer
via e-mail or submission
form for a free online review of your potential
Plant Explosion Lawsuit or Industrial Accident Claim.
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