/ Refinery & Plant
Refinery and Chemical Plant Injury Lawyers
Refineries and chemical plants run on contractors. Most people hurt inside a plant do not work for the company that owns it — and that shapes the whole claim.
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Injured inside a refinery or chemical plant as a contractor?
/ The Contractor Question
Who Employs You, Who Controls the Site
Turnaround and maintenance work is largely contracted out. The plant owner controls the premises; your employer controls your crew; a third company may own the equipment involved.
Premises liability against the plant owner, negligence against another contractor, and a workers’ compensation or non-subscriber claim against your own employer can all exist in the same incident.
Which of those are available depends on the contracts and on who actually directed the work — not on who signs your cheque.
The plant owner, your employer and another contractor may each owe you something different.
/ What Happens
Explosions, Releases and Burns
Fires and explosions from hydrocarbon release, flash fires during hot work, and pressure-vessel failures.
Chemical exposure and inhalation injuries, including exposures whose effects appear later.
Falls, confined-space incidents and injuries during turnarounds, when the pace and the headcount both rise.
Chemical exposure does not always show up the same week.
/ Investigation
The Records That Matter
Process safety management documentation, unit logs, permits to work, and contractor safety records are generated continuously and are rarely volunteered.
Regulatory investigations may follow a serious incident, and they run on their own timetable, not yours.
Getting a preservation letter out and identifying every contractor on the unit is the work that decides what is provable later.
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