Damages reversed in Exxon Mobil explosion case

HOUSTON — An appeals court in Texas reversed a trial court’s order awarding a pipe welder $2 million for past physical impairment and $1 million for future physical impairment regarding his complaint alleging that explosions at Exxon Mobil’s Baytown Olefins plant caused a fire that injured him. There is legally insufficient evidence supporting the existence of the pipe welder’s past and future physical impairment, because the evidence doesn’t show that the work-related loss qualified as “extremely disabling,” and instead the evidence suggests that the injuries the pipe welder sustained qualified as saddening.