TEXAS CITY — A Galveston County jury on Thursday awarded a former BP security guard $743,000 for injuries she suffered after she tripped walking out of a portable toilet four years ago.
Glenda Ann Nixx, 58, broke both feet when she tripped on an improperly installed grate outside the toilet near the BP chemical docks in May 2005.
Jurors in Judge David Garner’s 10th District Court unanimously found that BP was mostly responsible for the injury that caused a permanent disability that forced Nixx to go from working security to driving a school bus, her attorney Chad Pinkerton said.
Pinkerton claimed the jury’s verdict was a clear message to BP officials that “they have to do something about safety.”
Since the time of Nixx’s injury, which happened about a month after a series of explosions killed 15 contract workers at BP’s Texas City refinery, the company has completed a $1 billion overhaul to its Texas City facilities and revised all of its safety procedures.
