A Texas appellate court ruled that the family of an oil rig worker did not have a viable claim against a property owner for the worker’s fatal accident.
Case: Cuevas v. Endeavor Energy Resources, No. 11-15-00157-CV, 07/27/2017, published.
Facts: Endeavor Energy Resources has several oil and gas leases in Midland County. Endeavor hired Big Dog Drilling to drill a well pursuant to one of its leases.
Angel Cuevas Jr. worked for Big Dog. He suffered a blow to the head while working on a Big Dog rig when a pulley system malfunctioned.
Cuevas later died from his injury.
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