
What Causes Oil Field Accidents?
After an oil field accident occurs, your San Antonio, TX oil field injury lawyer will find out what happened. Many kinds of negligence can put oil field workers in danger of sustaining serious injuries in an accident. We’re familiar with what can cause accidents and how they can affect your life. Some of the causes can be:
- Oil Field Truck Accidents. Trucks allow transportation of the extracted oil and equipment to and from the oil field. However, inexperienced drivers, unsecured loads, and an exhausting work schedule can all factor into causing fatal accidents.
- Heavy Objects. On the site, heavy objects that aren’t secured can fall and strike workers.
- Faulty Equipment. If there’s faulty equipment on the site, it can malfunction when it’s in use. The person operating the equipment may not be able to prevent an accident and could be hurt themselves if they’re caught in between the equipment.
- Human Error. Multiple parties can be present on an oil field. Some third-parties may be there as contracted workers. If one of those workers doesn’t have the training or experience necessary to safely operate equipment, they could make a mistake and cause an accident.
Other ways that accidents can occur include ignoring worker safety, whether that’s taking measures to give them equipment to be safe or to make the environment they work in safer. After an explosion at a Texas oil company, OSHA cited specific safety violations that put the workers at risk. These are examples of what can lead to potentially life-threatening accidents and injuries:
- Failing to provide workers with fall protection
- Not ensuring that equipment and electrical wiring are appropriate for the environment
- Failing to prevent potential ignition sources (static electricity, sparks)
- Not conducting a workplace hazard assessment to determine the necessary personal protective equipment
- Not ensuring there’s an emergency action plan/eyewash station for employees working with acids
As our lawyers investigate your case, there may be one accident that occurred, but multiple safety violations and other factors of negligent decisions could have all contributed to what made the accident happen. You can trust that we’ll launch a full investigation of the accident so we know what happened and what lead to the accident.

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