Five individuals have sustained serious injuries following an oil rig fire in La Salle County. The victims were employed at Pioneer Natural Resources and were working on one of the company’s work-over rigs in Tilden at the time of the accident. According to officials…
Texas oil rig accident injures 5 workers Read More »
An employee at a power substation in Plainview was shocked during a Nov. 13 accident, sending the man to the hospital with critical injuries, authorities stated. The industrial incident reportedly led to a power outage that left some 4,600 Texans in the Plainview area…
Worker shocked at power substation Read More »
A death at a Texas refinery on May 11 owned by ExxonMobil was the third at that location since 2013 and the second at an area refinery over the past year. A 37-year-old man was hit in the head and neck by a falling pipe as he worked on a heat exchanger. The man was an…
Man dies in Texas refinery accident Read More »
In Texas and other states, permit-required confined space entry (PRCS) injuries and fatalities still occur fairly frequently. This is based on both new and old statistics regarding workplace injuries of this nature. Each year, roughly 2 million individuals enter…
Many workplace accidents still occur in confined spaces Read More »
The more time you spend on the road, the more likely you are to be in an accident. It is not reflective of your skills as a driver or your attentiveness overall, merely an inevitability. For truck drivers, this can be a threat to both physical safety and livelihood….
What happens to a trucker in an accident? Read More »
Texas is rich with oil, which provides residents with opportunities to gain profitable employment. Unfortunately, working in this industry also poses a risk of acquiring severe injuries. Such injuries can leave victims unable to work on a short- or long-term basis….
Severe injury risks associated with the Texas oil and gas industry Read More »
While many know the risks that machinery and trucking can pose to workers in Texas’s oil and gas industries, you may not know that danger could also be in the air around you as you work. Hydrogen sulfide, sometimes called H2S gas, can put you at risk, and poisoning…
What do oil and gas workers need to know about hydrogen sulfide? Read More »