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- Texas Construction Accidents Often Involve Falls
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- The Anatomy of a Refinery Accident
- Any Questions About Texas Workers' Compensation Insurance?
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Construction, Refinery, Industrial, On the Job Injuries and Workers' Comp
- Common Texas Construction Accidents that Lead to Injury
- Preventing Texas Construction Injuries Caused by Heat
- Texas Construction Workers at Risk of Eye Injuries
- Falls Are Leading Cause of Construction Deaths
- Construction Sites and Nail Guns
- Refinery Employees Have Rights Too
- Collapsing Cranes are a Sad Nationwide Trend
Refinery Employees Have Rights Too
Attorney Steve Lee has been helping injured workers in Houston and all over Texas for close to four decades. A significant part of his practice is assisting injured oil refinery workers get the help they need and the compensation they deserve. While oil refinery work is necessary, it is also very dangerous. If you or a loved one has been injured in a Texas oil refinery, contact Houston injury attorney Steve Lee for a free legal consultation today.
Plenty of folks who aren’t from Texas love to say that oil doesn’t matter much in our state. They like to point out that nobody is drilling like they used to. They like to say that by the time our first football team left they might as well have been called “The Candle Makers” or “The Blacksmiths.” While it’s true that we don’t bring oil up out of the ground like we did for most of the twentieth century, anyone in Texas in particular in Houston in general can tell you that the oil business is doing just fine here.
Consider the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, which at capacity can refine 562,500 barrels of oil a day.
Consider the Exxon Mobil refinery in Beaumont, which at capacity can refine 348,500 barrels of oil a day.
Consider the BP refinery in Texas City, which at capacity can refine 417,000 barrels of oil a day.
Consider the Shell Deer Park refinery in Deer Park, which at capacity can refine 333,700 barrels of oil a day.
Consider the Flint Hill refinery in Corpus Christi, which at capacity can refine 288,126 barrels of oil a day.
Consider the Motiva refinery in Port Arthur, which at capacity can refine 285,000 barrels of oil a day.
So on any given day, the state of Texas can turn 2,234,826 barrels of oil into gasoline. Anyone who says Texas is out of the oil business hasn’t taken a basic look.
While all the talk about new energy sources and alternative energy development is fine, it doesn’t look like Americans will stop using oil any time soon. This country still has an enormous demand for gasoline, and it is because of that need that thousands of Texans go to work every day in our oil refineries.
Working in an oil refinery is very necessary work, but it should never be forgotten that it is very dangerous. Oil refinement is, after all, a process where gasoline is brought out of oil through an intense process that uses lots of chemicals and extreme heat. While every day can bring wages and benefits to those who work in the refineries, every day also brings the risk of serious injury or worse.
Refinery work carries with it a very unique set of risks, and it takes an attorney who knows not only what those risks are but also how refineries are supposed to be safely operated. Injury attorney Steve Lee has helped refinery workers and the families of refinery workers all over the Gulf Coast receive fair compensation for their injuries and their losses, including injuries caused by burns, chemical spills or chemical releases, explosions, gas releases, restraint failures and falls, and post traumatic stress disorder.
It is incredibly important that you contact an experienced attorney after you are injured at the refinery. Quite often, the amount of money initially offered by the refinery or the insurance company doesn’t take into consideration the causes of the accident. They usually don’t want injured workers to think about how the accident could have been avoided if everyone involved had been doing their jobs properly, or if the equipment had been properly maintained. What they usually do is offer you a check that won’t cover what you either need or deserve, and then they make you sign a boilerplate waiver that relieves the refinery and their insurers of any and all future responsibilities. If you can’t go back to work? Not their problem. If you can’t sleep at night or suffer excruciating headaches? Not their problem. If the settlement doesn’t cover their medical bills? Not their problem.
Hiring an experienced injury attorney changes all that. In fact, hiring injury lawyer Steve Lee is a certain way to put your employers on notice that you expect a fair hearing, and that you expect your concerns to be addressed. Steve Lee has a statewide reputation as an attorney that fights hard for his clients, and he brings years of skill at negotiating and litigating to the table. If you or a loved one has been injured in an accident at a Texas oil refinery, contact Attorney Steve Lee today.
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