Fires and explosions are among the many accidents causing serious personal injury and death. Whether the fire or explosion occurs in a home, apartment complex, a mine, an industrial plant that produces chemicals, an oil and gas refinery or rig, serious injuriy as well as property damage may result.

Injuries from fires and explosions include burns, fractures, loss of limbs, brain damage and spinal cord injury to name a few. Burns are a leading cause of accidental death, exceeded in number only by car accidents and falls. When fire and explosion victims survive, their severe and extensive burns sometimes require long-term medical care and often reconstuctive surgery including skin grafts and rehabilitation.

A wide variety of factors cause fires and explosions including faulty electrical wiring, negligent equipment maintainence and improper storage of chemicals. An incident that begins as a fire may lead to an explosion compounding the disaster, such as the fire and subsequent explosion on a freighter carrying a cargo of ammonium nitrate that destroyed most of Texas City, Texas in 1947, killing 516 and injuring over 3000. Another disaster at a plastics manufacturing plant in Pasadena, Texas in 1989 involved an explosion and fire resulting in 23 deaths and 132 injuries. A rock concert fireworks display started a fire that engulfed a Rhode Island nightclub in 2003, injuring more than 150 people and killing 100.

When you or a loved one is injured in a fire or explosion, it is essential to retain an experienced and knowledgeable personal injury lawyer to protect your rights and secure recovery of fair and just compensation for your medical, assistive and rehabilitative care.

At the law firm of Bailey & Galyen, our attorneys blend decades of personal injury know-how with our resources, including a full-time investigative team, expert witnesses, and state of the art technology to pursue complex litigation on your behalf. Favorable settlements are often reached though negotiation, however, you can count on our attorneys’ trial expertise to obtain the maximum dollar amount allowable for your injuries.

If you or a loved one has sustained serious injury in a fire or explosion, call Bailey & Galyen today at 800-529-8008 to arrange a consultation. Alternatively, you may click here to contact us. We take personal injury cases on contingency, which means there is no fee unless we recover damages for you. Hablemos Español.

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