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Texas truck accident attorneys discuss the importance of drug testing A startling new report that claims higher than expected rates of cocaine and opioid use among truck drivers is renewing calls for hair follicle drug testing in the trucking industry. Impaired truckers increase the risk for truck accident fatalities and serious injuries such as paralysis,...

A Houston Car Accident Lawyer Explains What Drivers Should Know The roads and highways in Harris County can be dangerous. Traffic congestion combined with careless and reckless drivers can lead to fatal accidents. A recent report shows just how dangerous the roads are for drivers in Houston. According to an article in Culturemap, Harris County...

Four people were injured in an early morning fire at an ExxonMobil oil refinery in Baytown, Texas on December 23 in what a local sheriff is calling a “major industrial accident.” In a tweet, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said initial reports indicated that there had been some sort of explosion inside the plant. Deputies...

A Texas Truck Accident Lawyer Explains A jury’s recent multi-million-dollar verdict in a deadly FedEx truck crash will send a strong message about the importance of safety in the trucking industry, according to the son of a man who was killed in a tractor-trailer accident. The crash in east Texas happened after the FedEx driver...

Negligence can lead to a truck accident anywhere in Texas – on highways such as I-10, on busy city streets, or on back roads. A fatal crash in September 2021 happened in a truck stop parking lot in Brookshire. The victim’s family has filed a lawsuit, saying that the negligence of the truck stop owners...

Our thoughts are with the victims, and we are here to help Multiple people died and hundreds of others were injured when a crowd surged toward the stage during Travis Scott's performance at the Astroworld music festival in Houston on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. The tragic incident took place shortly after 9 p.m. at the...

A Houston truck accident attorney discusses the problem The driver of a big rig that tries to pass beneath a low bridge or travel on a non-permitted route could cause a serious truck accident. It’s become such a problem in Houston that officials at the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) officials are warning semi-truck drivers...

Our Texas oil rig accident lawyers reveal what you should know The federal government undercounts the number of workers who die as a result of offshore fatalities while working on offshore oil and gas rigs, according to a recent, in-depth study that examined fatalities for offshore oil rig accidents. As a result of such undercounting,...

On July 27, 2021, two people were killed and 30 were hospitalized after a chemical accident at the LyondellBasell plant in La Porte, Texas. The company said the incident involved a leak of acetic acid. This accident affected many families and left people with many questions. What is acetic acid and what makes it so...

Two North Central Texas men were recently killed in a worksite natural gas explosion about 15 miles outside of Dallas. The deadly accident happened in Farmersville around 3:30 p.m. in late-June at a construction site near State Highway 78 and FM2756. The men who died were subcontractors for Atmos Energy. Employees from Bobcat Construction and Fesco Petroleum...