My son. We were real close and uh we did everything together. I mean, I saw him almost every day. Everywhere he went, everyone liked him so much. He just had that kind of personality that just drew you in. I just wish you could have met him. You’d have loved and I miss him. He knew what he was doing. He did it all the time.
And um you know, Donald came in when he was down in the pit, the machine kicked on automatically and it wasn’t supposed to. His friend told me every other place they had worked, they had safety features implemented, but they didn’t have any in this place. He said Donald wouldn’t have got down into that pit. If he had known there were no safety features in place.
When he told me that, that’s when I thought somebody should be held accountable for that because it shouldn’t happen again. It shouldn’t happen this time. My son shouldn’t be dead. That’s what made me um look into getting a lawyer. I was looking for someone who was good, dependable. I didn’t want these gimmicky lawyers. I didn’t want any of those. Someone who was going to be serious.
And that’s when I started looking around and I found Zel and I saw where they had a really good record. And that’s when I called them up. In the beginning, when I first got Zel, they started out professional. Eric, he was awesome. He was very attentive. He kept me informed of everything all the time. And then I felt much better. My whole thing was that I wanted someone to put safety features in place.
That was my whole thing. That’s what I really wanted. I didn’t want this to happen to somebody else. It’s not even about the money. I said it’s about not happening again. I wouldn’t want you to lose your child. It’s like you have your heart ripped out. It’s the worst failure in the world. We shouldn’t lose our children. They should, you know, lose us first.
If you learn of anybody else in the oil field and you see that they’re injured, will you send them to Zehl Associates?
Oh, definitely. I already have. I’ve already referred him, I think, four times to people cuz he he’s that good in my eyes. That’s the firm for me.
Undefeated Oilfield Injury Lawyers
Dora lost her son, Donald, in an entirely preventable oilfield accident. After the incident, she learned from a co-worker that basic safety protocols had been ignored on the job site — failures that should never have happened in a properly managed operation.
For Dora, pursuing justice was never just about accountability. It was about making sure no other family would ever have to experience the same loss.
“I wanted someone to put safety features in place,” Dora says. “That’s what I really wanted. I didn’t want this to happen to somebody else. It’s not about the money—it’s about not happening again.”
Dora turned to Zehl & Associates, because our undefeated Texas Oilfield Accident Lawyers have earned a national reputation for taking on the largest energy companies in the world—and winning results that force change, with Billions recovered for injured clients and families, including some of the largest record-setting verdicts and settlements in history.
From day one, our team moved aggressively to uncover what really happened, assembling top industry experts, engineers, and safety specialists to dissect every detail of the incident.
Our investigation uncovered clear evidence of unsafe practices and multiple safety violations that directly contributed to Donald’s death.
And when the oil company refused to accept responsibility, Zehl & Associates did not back down. We prepared the case for trial from the outset, exposing a record of corporate negligence and positioning the case to be proven in front of a jury. Faced with that pressure, the defendants agreed to a record-breaking settlement before we ever stepped foot in the courtroom.
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