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Keep original materials intact

The event record should identify what happened, when and where it happened, the conditions involved, and the people, businesses, employers, public entities, health-care providers, or product participants connected to the event. The appropriate records depend on the event type.

• For a motor-vehicle event, preserve photographs, vehicle information, witness details, and available crash-report starting points. TxDOT provides statewide crash-report and crash-data resources, but that resource does not establish that TxDOT investigated a particular scene.
• For a boating event, preserve vessel information, photographs, witness details, and available event materials. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department identifies official boating accident duties and reports.
• For a product-related event, preserve the product, packaging, instructions, purchase information, maintenance records, and photographs without altering the item.
• For an event involving a public entity, preserve location photographs, notice or report materials, and communications identifying the public body involved.
• For a health-care event or an injured-worker matter, preserve provider, employer, coverage, and workplace records relevant to the event and its aftermath.

Event-specific proof: point 2

Do not discard, repair, modify, or overwrite potentially relevant physical or digital evidence. Keep copies of communications in their original form when possible, and note when and how each item was obtained.

Use consistent descriptions

A practical file can be assembled in stages. First record the event and initial symptoms. Then add every treatment transition, rehabilitation milestone, functional limitation, and continuing care requirement.

• Create a dated timeline beginning with the event, emergency response, admission, procedures, discharge, and follow-up visits.
• Add therapy evaluations, assistive-device recommendations, home modifications, transportation needs, and changes in mobility, communication, cognition, or self-care.
• Keep invoices, orders, receipts, repair records, rental records, and notes showing who provided assistance and when.
• Collect work schedules, restrictions, leave records, changed duties, and documentation of household responsibilities before and after the injury.
• Save photographs or videos that show equipment use, accessibility barriers, and changes in ordinary activities.

Documentation sequence: point 2

For each change, note the date, the activity affected, the assistance required, the equipment used, and the record or person supporting the observation. Consistent entries can make a long medical and functional history easier to review.

Practical next steps: point 1

Begin with safety and medical care. Then preserve the event evidence, request complete records, and maintain a dated account of functional change and care needs. Avoid guessing about disputed facts or discarding materials that may later clarify what occurred.

• Write down the event while memories are fresh, identifying witnesses, locations, vehicles, equipment, providers, employers, and communications.
• Create separate folders for event evidence, medical and rehabilitation records, equipment and accessibility, work, household effects, and expenses.
• Ask record holders for complete copies and keep a log of requests, responses, and missing items.
• Continue documenting assistance, restrictions, equipment use, appointments, and changes in ordinary activities.
• Review the applicable official Texas source areas before making assumptions about procedure or timing.