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Separate facts from questions

Write a chronological account while details are available. Record the date, approximate time, location description, people involved, immediate symptoms, statements made, and steps taken afterward. Preserve photographs, videos, messages, emails, receipts, clothing, equipment, and other items that may help show the condition of the scene or the progression of the injury. Do not alter, discard, or overwrite potentially relevant material.

• Create a dated timeline from the event through medical visits and missed work.
• Keep original photos, videos, messages, and documents in their original form.
• List witnesses and note what each person personally observed.
• Separate firsthand observations from assumptions or later conclusions.

Preserve before investigating

The first review is often more useful when it identifies unanswered questions rather than assuming an answer. For example, the record may need to clarify who controlled a location, which person or entity supplied an item, whether another vehicle or vessel was involved, or which public or private records exist.

Include the work file

Keep a treatment timeline with provider names, visit dates, symptoms reported, tests, recommendations, prescriptions, referrals, and follow-up plans. Retain bills, statements, appointment records, discharge materials, and correspondence. A health-care-related event may require reviewing Texas Health Care Liability Claims, Chapter 74, the official Texas chapter identified for that subject; the source packet does not authorize procedural conclusions or deadlines.

• Record changes in symptoms and daily activities over time.
• Keep copies of work schedules, leave communications, wage records, and job restrictions when relevant.
• Save receipts and transportation records connected to appointments.
• Ask records custodians how to obtain complete copies rather than relying on personal notes alone.

Keep a consistent chronology

For an injured-worker matter, Texas Division of Workers’ Compensation materials address injured-worker claims, coverage, and employer records. That source describes the official subject area but does not establish facts about a particular event. Preserve employer communications and documents showing dates, restrictions, and reported limitations.

Keep legal subjects separate

Use the event type and the records available to choose a more focused review. The linked topics cover amputation injuries, aviation accidents, bicycle accidents, birth injuries, boating and jet ski accidents, burn injuries, bus accidents, car accidents, catastrophic injury, and construction site injuries. A topic page can narrow the questions without assuming that a particular legal theory or outcome applies.

• Choose the vehicle or activity topic when the event centers on transportation or recreation.
• Choose an injury topic when the principal issue is the nature of the physical harm.
• Choose a worksite topic when employer records and workplace circumstances are central.
• Choose a health-care or product-related review only when those facts are actually part of the event.

Avoid premature conclusions

Texas has official chapters addressing limitations, proportionate responsibility, public-entity liability, health-care liability, and products liability. The source packet authorizes identifying those chapters, but not calculating deadlines, percentages, thresholds, or outcomes. Those subjects should remain questions for a case-specific review.