Six Injured and Four Missing After Corpus Christi Pipeline Explosion at Port near Lantana and Up River Road 

Corpus Christi, Texas (August 22, 2020) – Six people were injured, and four others are missing following a pipeline explosion Friday morning at a port in Corpus Christi, according to authorities.

The explosion happened around 8:00 a.m., August 21, in the Port of Corpus Christi, near Lantana and Up River Road.

Authorities said a dredging vessel hit a submerged natural gas pipeline, sparking an explosion.

Six people were taken to the hospital, and one of the victims had serious injuries.

Four other people were missing after the explosion. The missing people are crew members on the dredging vessel Waymon L Boyd.

The NTSB is investigating the accident.

We hope the injured victims recover quickly.

“Texas has been the scene of some of the world’s most shocking industrial accidents in the past 25 years,” Joel A. Gordon, an experienced industrial accident lawyer, said. In the great majority of the cases, gross negligence on the part of the employer bears full responsibility,” he added. Numerous OSHA violations, fines, and deficiencies stand as proven evidence that employers repeatedly disregard the importance of worker safety by ignoring needs for proper equipment maintenance, employee protections around dangerous work conditions, and vigilance about employee health concerns or symptoms while working within unsafe circumstances. 

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