Every year, millions of Americans suffer injuries and thousands are killed in their workplaces. Most of these injuries and deaths involve worker interaction with industrial machinery.

Our firm recently obtained an $18,000,000.00 verdict in the case of Brenda Solis, et.al. v. Fiatallis North America, Inc. Eleazar Solis was killed while directing dump trucks at a work site when a Fiatallis motor grader operated by a co-worker backed over him. The motor grader lacked outside rearview mirrors, and Plaintiffs’ experts proved that without the mirrors, Mr. Solis was in the operator’s blind spot.

The lawyers of Hockema, Tippit & Escobedo have prosecuted cases involving defective cranes, excavators, tire changers, utility lines, oilfield and refinery equipment and storage tanks.