ABC13 had the chance to hear from two of the victim's daughters, who fought back tears as they said they lost their father due to Marathon Petroleum's negligence.
The civil lawsuit is being handled by Attorney Tony Buzbee and it claims he burned to death. The family says it has not been able to get any straight answers from the company about what exactly happened.
According to an initial report from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, it was a splitter on Ultraformer Unit #3 that developed a leak and caught on fire. The family claims negligence on behalf of Marathon and others in failing to "properly and adequately manage, inspect, maintain, and repair" that unit and surrounding machinery.
The lawsuit is seeking inspection records, as well as names of employees who have performed maintenance on this particular unit to try and determine what did and did not happen in properly doing so. Meanwhile, the family of Higgins says they are devastated over the loss and cannot seem to get any straight answers out of the company.
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