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Separate observations from assumptions

Write a dated sequence of the event while the circumstances are fresh. Separate what you personally observed from what someone else told you. Preserve photographs, videos, messages, emails, receipts, clothing or equipment connected to the event, and notes about symptoms. Do not alter files when saving them; keep original versions and record when and how each item was obtained.

• Identify the location as precisely as you can without assuming which public entity, owner, or agency controls it.
• List everyone who may have seen the event or its immediate aftermath.
• Record changes in pain, mobility, sleep, work activity, and ordinary tasks without presenting those notes as medical conclusions.

Match the record source to the event

For a vehicle-related event, an official Texas crash-report and crash-data starting point is available through the Texas Department of Transportation. That resource does not establish that TxDOT investigated or controls a particular scene. For a boating event, Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes official information on boating accident duties and reports. The applicable source and record path depends on the event itself.

Keep medical and employment files distinct

Keep a chronological medical file containing appointment information, instructions, bills or statements, imaging or testing references, prescriptions, referrals, and your own symptom notes. Ask providers about obtaining records through their established process. Do not change treatment instructions or describe a diagnosis beyond what the treating record states.

• Use one timeline for the event, symptoms, appointments, and changes in activity.
• Keep copies of work restrictions, leave communications, schedules, time records, and messages about missed or modified work.
• Record questions for providers rather than trying to resolve medical issues through an incident narrative.

Identify the applicable framework without assuming it

Texas has an official health-care-liability chapter and an official Division of Workers’ Compensation resource concerning injured-worker claims, coverage, and employer records. Those source categories may matter depending on the facts, but the applicable legal path requires a case-specific review. A workplace setting alone does not establish which claim or coverage framework applies.

Let the facts drive the topic

Use the event and injury description—not a preferred outcome—to choose a more focused topic. The available paths include car, bicycle, bus, aviation, boating and jet ski, construction-site, burn, birth, catastrophic-injury, and amputation-injury topics. A case may involve more than one factual category, so preserve the broader evidence map even after selecting a primary topic.

• Choose Car Accidents, Bicycle Accidents, or Bus Accidents when transportation facts are central.
• Choose Aviation Accidents or Boating and Jet Ski Accidents when the event involves those forms of travel; boating records and duties have an official Texas Parks & Wildlife subject source.
• Choose Construction Site Injuries when the worksite or construction setting is central; consult the injured-worker record path where employment facts matter.
• Choose Burn Injuries, Birth Injuries, Catastrophic Injury, or Amputation Injuries when the injury description itself requires a more focused review.
• Choose products-related analysis when an item, its use, maintenance, purchase, or preservation is central; Texas identifies products liability in Chapter 82.