Odessa Oilfield Accident Lawyer

Experienced Odessa Oil Field Accident Lawyer Fighting For Injured Persons’ Rights

Working on a Permian Basin rig means facing some of the most dangerous conditions in Texas. A blowout, falling equipment, vehicle rollover, or other serious oilfield accident can leave you with life-changing injuries, mounting medical bills, and lost income. At the same time, the companies involved begin investigating the incident and responding to potential claims.

At The Biggs Firm, we represent roughnecks, drivers, and site workers hurt across the oil patch surrounding Odessa and Ector County. Our Odessa oilfield accident lawyer keeps the focus on your injuries, your household, and the tangle of companies that will try to shift blame away from themselves.

Plain answers beat a sales pitch when a drilling company and its safety team are lined up against you. Bringing more than 30 years of courtroom work to West Texas, The Biggs Firm meets that pressure with one attorney who knows your file start to finish. Call 432-201-3524 or contact us online for a free consultation today.

What Sets The Biggs Firm Apart on an Oilfield Injury Claim?

Oilfield claims rely on evidence buried in a company’s own records, and reaching it takes someone who moves fast and knows the territory. Born in Midland and raised in Odessa, our oilfield accident lawyer grew up around this industry and understands how Ector County juries view rig operators and out-of-state contractors.

That local grounding pairs with results the large firms tend to miss. For example, one claim another firm had written off settled for $4.5 million once we took the wheel. 

Our firm builds every case honestly, refuses illegal case-running tactics, and offers full Spanish-speaking service plus an after-hours line for the calls that cannot wait until morning.

Founding attorney Brent A. Biggs spent years representing insurance companies and large corporations in personal injury litigation. That experience provides firsthand insight into how insurers evaluate claims, assess risk, and approach settlement negotiations.

Today, we use that knowledge to anticipate common defense strategies, identify the issues insurers focus on most, and build stronger personal injury cases for our clients. Our understanding of how the other side evaluates claims helps us prepare more effectively and negotiate from a position of strength.

What Types of Oilfield Accidents Lead to Claims?

Oil Rig Injuries

Rig work concentrates the industry’s worst hazards in one place: rotating machinery, high-pressure lines, suspended loads, and crews working at height. Blowouts, dropped pipe, and caught-between injuries on the rig floor produce some of the most severe claims in the Basin, and the daily drilling reports and job safety analysis (JSA) records kept on every rig become central evidence.

Refinery Accidents

Refinery and processing facility injuries bring their own defendants, from plant operators to maintenance contractors working turnarounds. Chemical releases, flash fires, and confined-space incidents in these facilities often involve OSHA process safety rules that give an injury claim a documented standard to measure conduct against.

Pipeline Explosions

A pipeline rupture or explosion can injure workers and bystanders far from any well site. These cases turn on inspection records, corrosion monitoring, and pressure data the pipeline operator controls, which makes early preservation demands especially important.

Oilfield Truck Accidents

The trucks feeding the oil patch, crude haulers, sand trucks, water trucks, and crew transports, cause many of the region’s most serious wrecks on rural roads never built for that traffic. A crash with a company truck opens commercial insurance and employer liability that a standard collision never reaches.

Burn Injuries

Flash fires, well blowouts, and electrical faults leave burn injuries that stand apart in severity and cost. Extensive grafting, long rehabilitation, and permanent scarring make future care the largest part of these claims, and proving that need takes detailed medical projection.

Fatal Oilfield Accidents

When an oil or gas injury takes a life, Texas law gives the closest family members a wrongful death claim, and gross negligence by a covered employer can support exemplary damages even where workers’ compensation applies. Our team helps families pursue both paths while they grieve.

Who Can Be Held Responsible for an Oilfield Injury?

Fault for a workplace injury on a well site seldom rests with a single company. Operators, drilling contractors, service outfits, and equipment suppliers all share the pad, and any of them can create the hazard that hurts you. Pinning down each responsible party opens more sources of compensation.

Common defendants in a rig or lease injury include:

• The well operator that controlled overall site safety
• A drilling or service contractor that cut corners
• Equipment makers behind a failed valve or line
• Trucking companies hauling to and from the pad
• Staffing firms that placed undertrained crews

Because several businesses carry separate insurance, sorting out who did what determines how much you can recover. Our team moves quickly to secure daily drilling reports, safety meeting logs, and maintenance records before a company’s routine cleanup thins them out.

Can You Sue Beyond Workers’ Compensation?

Yes, in many oilfield cases you can reach further than a workers’ compensation check. Whether your employer even carried coverage changes everything, since Texas lets many companies opt out. A third party who caused your injury faces no such shield at all.

Texas law draws a hard line around employer immunity. Under Texas Labor Code § 408.001, workers’ compensation is usually a covered employer’s exclusive remedy, but that same statute lets a surviving spouse or heirs pursue exemplary damages when a worker dies from the employer’s gross negligence. Sorting out which path fits your situation decides how much you can claim and from whom.

What Money Can You Recover After a Rig Injury?

Recovery reaches well past a first hospital visit when a serious oilfield injury changes how you earn a living. The value depends on the harm done, the number of at-fault parties, and the strength of the proof behind your claim. 

No honest firm promises a figure before studying the facts. A full oilfield injury claim often accounts for the following:

• Emergency treatment, surgery, and primary follow-ups
• Physical therapy and rehabilitation
• Future medical care for lasting disabilities
• Lost wages and reduced earning capacity
• Physical pain and mental anguish
• Burn, amputation, or spinal injury care

Property owners who control a work site carry their own liability in the mix. In certain situations, a commercial premises owner can be held responsible for a contractor’s injury if the owner kept control over how the work was performed and knew about a dangerous condition yet failed to warn anyone.

FAQ: Odessa Oilfield Injury Cases

Put Our Odessa Oilfield Injury Lawyer on Your Side

Your recovery, your income, and your leverage against a major operator all rest on the steps you take now, while that company’s adjusters are already working to close your file for less. A local advocate who answers the phone and treats you as a person rather than a claim number can steady a fight that feels stacked against you.

Ready to review what happened on that well site and outline your next move? Our team at The Biggs Firm is here, putting direct, honest guidance behind the crews that keep this region running. Call 432-201-3524 or contact us online while those site records are still in reach.