Ryan Pigg represented a family who lost their son after he became exposed to deadly levels of Hydrogen Sulfide gas. The deceased worked as a crude oil hauler. His job duties included manually gauging storage tanks in West Texas and hauling the crude from the tanks. Throughout litigation, Defendants vehemently denied the presence of hydrogen sulfide gas at this particular wellsite. After collecting documents and taking depositions, Ryan proved that Hydrogen Sulfide periodically spiked at the wellsite beyond levels safe for human exposure. The wellsite did not have any respiratory equipment or remote tapping equipment to protect workers from the deadly gas. As a result of his death, the American Petroleum Institute implemented new regulatory guidelines which required wellsite owners to install remote gauging technology which protects the workers from hydrogen sulfide. NIOSH and OSHA identified worker fatalities as a result of manually gauging and sampling crude oil at storage facilities as significant hazard across the United States.