Texas Industrial Accident Lawyer
Industrial accidents can result in catastrophic injuries. If you work for one of the many Texas companies that don’t offer workers’ compensation, a personal injury lawsuit may be your only path to getting the recovery you deserve. Our skilled Texas industrial accident attorneys can help.
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- Lawrence P. Wilson
- Page Last Updated:
- January 6, 2026
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- Why Hire Our Industrial Accident Lawyers To Defend Your Case in Texas?
- Compensation You Could Pursue for an Industrial Accident in Texas
- Types of Industrial Accident Cases We Handle in Texas
- How Can Our Talented Industrial Accident Lawyers in Texas Help You?
- Contact Our Award-Winning Industrial Accident Lawyers in Houston, TX
- FAQs About Industrial Accidents in Texas
A devastating industrial accident can leave you with severe injuries and long-term consequences. If you have been hurt on the job because of someone else’s negligence, you deserve to be compensated fairly for your suffering.
The compassionate Texas industrial accident lawyers with The Lanier Law Firm can help hold your employer accountable and secure the justice you deserve. Contact us today for a free consultation.
Why Hire Our Industrial Accident Lawyers To Defend Your Case in Texas?
Our attorneys have been fighting and winning for injury victims like you since 1992, securing billions of dollars in verdicts and settlements. Our award-winning firm has built a proven track record of significant results both in and out of the courtroom—we’re not afraid to take your case to trial if necessary to maximize your compensation.
We Take On the Big Texas Corporations
We’re not intimidated by large companies, including major manufacturers and oil and gas giants. We have a long history of standing up to powerful corporations and winning. We have the resources, skills, expertise, and commitment to fight against even the biggest and most powerful businesses.
We Care About Our Clients
We’re not intimidated by large companies, including major manufacturers and oil and gas giants. We have a long history of standing up to powerful corporations and winning. We have the resources, skills, expertise, and commitment to fight against even the biggest and most powerful businesses.
We Fight for Full and Fair Compensation for Your Case
Many law firms will rush to settle every case, even if it won’t get their client the best possible outcome. We have ample experience fighting and winning at trial, and our courtroom reputation precedes us. We have more power and leverage in settlement negotiations because companies know we won’t accept lowball offers and are always ready to take our cases to trial.
We’re committed to aggressively pursuing full and fair compensation for our clients. We’ll ensure you get the financial recovery you deserve instead of a quick payout that leaves you with less than you’re owed. We can invest significant resources into your cases without obligation and upfront fees, charging you nothing unless we win.
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Lawrence P. Wilson:
There was a man that we represented just a few years ago, and he took to heart the things we were telling him about how best to make his case the best it could be and the advice we always give our clients is that at a very fundamental level, you’ve got to be transparently honest when they ask you questions about what happened and about how you’re doing.
He was an amazing guy. We presented him for deposition, and he had been burned relatively badly on his back, but in his deposition, he was so incredibly honest about it, and it was obvious that he was honest about it.
And we ended up getting him nearly $20 million for that, and yet he admitted in his deposition that these burns were not burns that were causing him any pain, they were not burns that were causing him any discomfort, he was not even embarrassed of the burns, he would wear no shirt when he would go out to the beach, and he admitted all of that in his deposition, but he was incredibly honest about it.
And, I heard later from one of the defense attorneys that he had told his client that was the scariest plaintiff he had ever seen. We made a difference in his life. It’s kind of an interesting thing, he aspired to be a police officer. That’s what his aspiration was, and as far as I know that aspiration continued even after this lawsuit, but now he had the means to be able to accomplish that and not have to be doing other work building up to it. He could literally stop what he was doing, go straight into the pathway of what he wanted to be, which was a police officer.
He, I think, is a good example of somebody who I think we were able to make a difference for.
Call 800-723-3216 now to see if our personal injury law firm can pursue compensation for you and your family. Consultations are free.
Compensation You Could Pursue for an Industrial Accident in Texas
The compensation available after a Houston industrial accident depends on the severity of the resulting injuries and whether the victim’s employer carries workers’ compensation insurance. Texas is the only state in the union that doesn’t mandate workers’ comp, and more than one in every four companies takes advantage by opting out of the state’s system.
If workers’ comp is available, you generally cannot sue your employer for your injuries. However, if the company doesn’t provide workers’ comp coverage, you can sue them directly for all available damages.
In addition, if a party other than your employer is responsible for your industrial accident, you can file a Texas personal injury lawsuit against them and seek compensation for your losses. Third parties that might be responsible include contractors, subcontractors, property owners, and equipment manufacturers.
Damages for which you can pursue compensation in an industrial accident lawsuit include the following:
- Economic damages, which are direct financial losses like medical bills, rehabilitation costs, lost wages, and diminished future earning capacity
- Non-economic damages, which include intangible harms like pain and suffering, mental anguish, and emotional distress
- Punitive damages, also known as exemplary damages, which are awarded in rare cases involving gross negligence or intentional malice
If an industrial accident becomes fatal, the victim’s family can file a wrongful death lawsuit to recover damages like funeral costs, lost financial support, and loss of companionship.
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Lawrence P. Wilson:
In Texas you’ve got your workers’ compensation that is available to you as an employee and so your employer can provide you with workers’ compensation benefits that would provide you with weekly benefits that would extend out for a period of time until you reach what’s called maximum medical improvement, at which point that would stop.
You’re also entitled to your cure, and that would be all of your medical treatment for those injuries, and that will actually continue through the end of your life. So if you had something flare up down the road, 10 years down the road, that was related to what had happened 10 years earlier, you could still draw on that workers’ compensation insurance to pay for that.
As to those who are not your employer, as to other companies, you know, oftentimes another company might be negligent in coming in or, something we commonly see, will have a worker who is a subcontractor.
Let’s just say that a subcontractor is brought in, to say Shell, and so Shell’s got a subcontractor working for them.
The employee of the subcontractor might be injured by the negligence, say, of Shell, and in that situation, they would have workers’ comp from their employer, who was the subcontractor, but if it was Shell’s negligence that caused this, they could then sue Shell for that negligence.
Now, in terms of what’s available to them, Texas recognizes just some standard elements of damages that you can sue to recover. You can sue for your lost wages in the past, if you’ve got an injury that’s gonna impact your earnings in the future, you can sue for your lost earning capacity. You can sue to recover your past paid medical, you can sue to recover future medical that you’ll need because of the injury.
And then, you get into what are called non-economic damages, and that would be pain and suffering, mental anguish, disfigurement, impairment.
Texas law has gone through quite a change in the last two years on that, and there was a Texas Supreme Court case that came out that has been the subject of lots of different legal training, but the Texas Supreme Court has come out and said that there has to be a focus in all of this, on how the injuries affect a person in terms of the duration of the injury, the intensity of the pain or the impairment, and how frequent those things are occurring, and there’s gotta be evidence of that.
And so, like I say, we’re in a time of sort of discovering how we’re going to apply that Texas Supreme Court decision. But there is lots of training going on about it, and more than ever before, when we go to trial, we’re having to focus upon how are these things actually affecting the life of the individual in order to support damage awards or money awards for things like mental anguish and disfigurement and impairment, but that’s what would be available to a typical worker.
If an industrial accident becomes fatal, the victim’s family can file a wrongful death lawsuit to recover damages like funeral costs, lost financial support, and loss of companionship.
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Lawrence P. Wilson:
In terms of a fatality, there are some laws that are a little bit different in Texas when it comes to workers’ compensation.
If somebody dies in an industrial accident and let’s say that their employer has workers’ compensation, they’re still entitled to recover in that situation, and that’s unusual because normally workers’ compensation means you can’t sue your employer, but if you died due to negligence, you are able to sue the employer.
We had a case where an individual died as a result of a gas release that had occurred.
Gas was released, one worker died, an alarm went off, another worker went to rescue that individual who had died, and on his way to that individual, he also died because of inhaling the gasses. He left a wife and he left children.
Because it was a death case, we could sue the employer. The caveat is that you have to sue the employer only for gross negligence. Regular negligence, you can’t sue them, but if there’s a death, you can sue your employer even though they carried workers’ compensation for gross negligence, and we were able to get a substantial recovery for her, because again, in these situations, oftentimes when you look at multiple people dying in an industrial accident, that doesn’t just happen. There have to have been a series of events that contributed to it that allowed that to happen, and we were able to demonstrate there at least the threat of the gross negligence, and we were able to get a recovery there.
In addition to that, if someone dies and let’s just say, let’s just leave workers’ compensation out of this, we could, let’s talk about somebody who did not have that workers’ compensation because there was not an employer-employee relationship. In those situations, a spouse and the children can sue for what’s called loss of consortium.
And we rarely hear that word used consortia, but it would be like the loss of love and counseling and affection, and instruction, and direction, things of that type that you as a spouse would have gained from your spouse, that you as a child would have gained from your parent, and so the jury would be allowed to award money for loss of consortium in the past, that is prior to the trial, but after the death, and would be allowed to award consortium damages, loss of consortium going into the future. So those are available as well.
The spouse would also have standard type of recoveries for things like his, you know, loss of earnings of the individual. So if the spouse died and was earning $100,000 a year and was 35 years old, you could extrapolate out $100,000 a year until their expected age of retirement, and the spouse could sue for the recovery of that. Same thing if the children were young children, they could sue for the amount of money that would have expected to come to them just from their father paying for their school or their mother paying for their care or something of that nature, and so those would be available as well.
“When we take on an industrial accident case, we look beyond just workers’ comp. We examine whether there is a third party who contributed to the accident—like a subcontractor, equipment manufacturer, or property owner. If we can prove that another party was negligent, we can pursue a full personal injury lawsuit, which allows for much greater compensation.”
— Lawrence P. Wilson
Types of Industrial Accident Cases We Handle in Texas
Factories, refineries, plants, and other industrial facilities have unique hazards that pose risks for a variety of injuries. Our experienced Texas industrial accident attorneys have the knowledge and expertise to take on any incident or injury. Types of industrial accidents we can handle include:
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How Can Our Talented Industrial Accident Lawyers in Texas Help You?
Our skilled Texas industrial accident attorneys take a comprehensive approach to representation. We will look out for your interests and well-being from day one and fight hard to protect your rights every step of the way.
Our first priority is to ensure you get the medical care you need. We’ll step in to level the playing field with your employer and other responsible parties. We’ll investigate and collaborate with experts, such as accident reconstructionists and medical professionals, allowing us to determine what happened, identify potential safety violations, prove negligence, and establish the full extent of your losses.
The Lanier Law Firm’s Houston attorneys will handle all negotiations with the opposition’s lawyers and insurers, fighting hard to get you the compensation you deserve. We won’t accept a lowball offer, and we won’t back down until you receive a settlement offer that reflects every aspect of what your injuries have cost you. If they won’t pay you what you deserve, we’ll sue them and fight for it in court.
Contact Our Award-Winning Industrial Accident Lawyers in Houston, TX
If you’ve been injured in a Texas industrial accident, you don’t need to fight alone. Our skilled legal team is ready to help protect your rights and secure the compensation you deserve. Contact The Lanier Law Firm today for a free consultation.
Lawrence P. Wilson specializes in personal injury, product liability, medical malpractice, and certain maritime matters. He recently settled a $17.5 million personal injury case and secured a favorable verdict in Schwab v. Ford Motor Company. Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyer (2012-2021) and named to Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Lawyers.
FAQs About Industrial Accidents in Texas
Here are the most frequently asked questions. You can also explore unique insights and discover the answer to common legal questions in our industrial accident case video interviews with the Lanier Law Firm’s attorneys.
How Long Do I Have To File an Industrial Accident Claim?
Texas has a two-year statute of limitations for personal injury claims, including industrial accidents. This deadline starts on the date of the injury. For wrongful death claims, surviving family members have two years from the victim’s death to file suit.
It’s important to consult with a Texas industrial accident lawyer immediately after the incident to ensure you won’t miss out on your chance to recover compensation.
What Are the Common Types of Injuries in Industrial Accidents?
Industrial accidents can cause a variety of severe and potentially fatal injuries. Some common injuries include broken bones, amputations, spinal cord damage, brain trauma, and burns.
What Are the Main Causes of Industrial Accidents?
Inadequate or loosely followed safety rules and policies often contribute to many types of industrial accidents. These accidents commonly result from or involve the following: equipment malfunction, poor training, exposure to dangerous substances or environments, explosions, slip and falls, and transportation mishaps.
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