Embattled Texas Oilfield Waste Company Fined After Worker’s Death

Inside Climate News · By Martha Pskowski · last updated September 5, 2025 – 1:04 AM

A 26-year-old employee at McBride Operating in Waskom, Texas, was killed when a valve blew off a pump last year. Another worker had sued the company two years earlier after being injured on the job.

By Martha Pskowski

By the time emergency medical providers reached McBride Operating in Waskom, Texas, a small town near the Louisiana border, it was too late. Pedro Julian Garcia, a father of two, died after being struck by a pump valve at the oilfield waste company on the night of Feb. 6, 2024.

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