Construction Accident Lawyer Baytown, TX
If you’ve been hurt on a construction site in Baytown, you may not even be sure who is legally responsible for what happened: the general contractor, a subcontractor, the property owner, an equipment manufacturer, or some combination of them. When you’re in pain and worried about your recovery, it’s hard to make decisions alone. We’re here to protect your rights and help you secure fair benefits and compensation.
At Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers, we’ve handled catastrophic workplace injury cases across Texas for more than a decade. We represent injured workers and grieving families, not insurance companies or employers, and we build every file as though a jury will decide it. Our firm works on a contingency fee basis, which means no upfront cost and no bill unless we recover money for you.
If you need a Baytown, TX construction accident lawyer that workers and families can trust with a high-stakes case, we’re ready to listen, investigate, and advise on your next steps.
Why Choose Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers for Construction Accidents in Baytown, TX?
Trial Experience on Catastrophic Texas Injury Cases
Our firm is led by co-founders Matt Greenberg and Mike Streich. Matt has practiced personal injury law in Baytown, TX for 12 years and has served as lead trial counsel in cases that produced record-setting verdicts and settlements in county, state, and federal courts. He earned his J.D. at Baylor Law School through its trial-focused Practice Court program and has been recognized by Super Lawyers, Lawdragon, and the National Trial Lawyers. Matt is also an active member of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association.
Mike has represented seriously injured workers for 13 years. He graduated cum laude from the University of Houston Law Center and has been named a Texas Rising Star by Super Lawyers in 2014, 2017 through 2021, and again from 2023 through 2025. Before moving to the plaintiff side, Mike spent close to a decade defending corporations and insurance syndicates, including members of Lloyd’s of London, in catastrophic injury and death claims tied to pipeline, refinery, commercial vehicle, and offshore work. That background gives him a working knowledge of how construction defendants investigate, evaluate, and try to minimize the value of claims.
Results That Matter to Working Families
Our attorneys have recovered over $375 million on behalf of clients across Texas. Those outcomes include a $5.9 million recovery for a worker injured in a construction accident, a $20 million settlement for an oilfield worker severely burned on the job, and an $11 million mid-trial settlement for a crane-related workplace death at the Port of Freeport.
Contingency Fee Representation
Construction workers rarely have legal funds set aside when disaster hits. We don’t ask for any. Our firm advances the costs of investigation, specialists, and filings, and our attorney fees come out of the recovery only if we win.
Client Feedback
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Matt’s preparation and understanding of every aspect of the case allows his confident courtroom presence to shine. He communicates clearly and precisely his points to the jury, while maintaining his likeable personality. I would recommend Matt and his team to anyone!”
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Types of Construction Accident Cases We Handle in Baytown
Construction work in and around Baytown, from refinery turnarounds to highway projects and commercial builds, exposes workers to serious hazards every shift. Our firm handles the highest-stakes categories of site incidents, including the ones that end careers or cost lives. The common thread in these cases is a preventable failure of safety rules that someone, somewhere, chose to ignore.
- Falls from heights. Falls are the single largest cause of construction fatalities nationwide. We handle claims involving unguarded edges, missing fall-arrest systems, collapsed scaffolds, and ladder failures. These cases frequently involve head trauma and traumatic brain injuries.
- Struck-by and crush incidents. Workers are hit by falling tools, swinging loads, collapsing materials, and commercial trucks moving through the site. We investigate whether rigging, spotters, traffic control, and site layout met recognized safety standards.
- Electrocution and arc flash injuries. Contact with overhead lines, energized equipment, or improperly grounded tools causes catastrophic burn injuries and cardiac damage. Lockout and tagout failures are a recurring theme.
- Heavy equipment and machinery accidents. Forklifts, front-end loaders, backhoes, and cranes cause serious harm when operators are undertrained or when contractors cut corners. Our firm has resolved multiple cases with these fact patterns.
- Trench and excavation collapses. Cave-ins kill and injure workers every year when shoring, sloping, or protective systems are skipped to save time.
- Refinery and industrial construction incidents. New construction, turnarounds, and demolition at petrochemical sites introduce fire, explosion, and toxic release risks. We handle both refinery accident cases and explosion accident claims arising from work at these facilities.
- Fatal construction incidents. When a worker dies on the job, surviving family members may bring wrongful death claims under Texas law against the employer, a contractor, or a third party.
Texas Legal Requirements for Construction Accident Claims
Construction injury cases in Texas are shaped by a handful of statutes that every injured worker should understand before giving a recorded statement or signing a release.
Statute of limitations. Under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Section 16.003, most personal injury and wrongful death claims must be filed within two years of the date of the incident. Miss that deadline, and the claim is almost always barred regardless of its merits. Evidence also moves quickly on a construction site because tools are moved or repaired, surveillance video is overwritten, and witnesses rotate to other jobs within weeks. The first days after a serious accident often shape what the case can become.
Modified comparative negligence. Texas uses a 51 percent bar rule under Chapter 33 of the CPRC. If a jury finds you more than 50 percent at fault for your own injury, you recover nothing. At 50 percent or less, your recovery is reduced by your assigned share of fault. Defense contractors routinely try to shift blame to the injured worker, which is why we investigate site conditions, training records, and safety policies as early as possible.
Workers’ compensation and non-subscribers. Texas is unusual in that most employers may choose not to carry workers’ compensation insurance. If your employer is a non-subscriber, you may have the right to sue the company directly for ordinary negligence without the caps that workers’ comp imposes. If a separate contractor or property owner caused your injury, a third-party claim may be available even when your own employer is a subscriber. Recent Texas legal changes have also reshaped how some of these claims are tried.
OSHA construction standards. Federal OSHA construction standards govern fall protection, scaffolding, excavations, electrical safety, and other safety requirements. Violations of those standards are powerful evidence of negligence in Texas courts.
What Damages Are Recoverable in a Baytown Construction Accident Case?
Texas law allows injured construction workers, and the families of those who are killed on the job, to recover three broad categories of damages. What damages you’re entitled to, and how much, depends on the facts and the severity of the injury.
Economic damages. These cover the measurable, out-of-pocket losses tied to the incident. They include past and future medical bills, physical therapy, rehabilitation, prescription costs, home modifications, assistive devices, lost wages, reduced earning capacity, and funeral and burial costs when a worker dies. For clients with long-term injuries, we typically retain life care planners and vocational economists to accurately project future costs. A torn shoulder that ends a pipefitter’s career carries a very different economic value than the same injury to a desk worker, for example.
Non-economic damages. Texas law permits recovery for physical pain, mental anguish, disfigurement, physical impairment, and loss of enjoyment of life. In fatal cases, surviving spouses, children, and parents may recover for loss of companionship, consortium, and household services under Texas’s wrongful death and survival statutes. Non-economic damages are frequently the largest part of a case involving a brain injury, amputation, paralysis, or severe burns.
Exemplary (punitive) damages. Under Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code Chapter 41, a jury may award exemplary damages when the evidence shows gross negligence, fraud, or malice by clear and convincing evidence. On construction sites, gross negligence often looks like knowing violations of basic safety rules: leaving a valve open during hot work, sending an untrained worker up a scaffold, or rushing a crew past a hazard that supervisors have already documented. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, construction consistently ranks among the most dangerous industries in the country, and many of those fatalities trace back to decisions made by people who should have known better.
If your injury involves a separate workplace injury claim, a commercial vehicle on site, or a third-party premises owner who failed to maintain safe conditions, additional sources of coverage and recovery may exist.
Contact Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers
A construction injury can upend a career, a household, and a family’s long-term security all at once. You deserve a firm that takes the case as seriously as you do, and you’ll find that at Greenberg Streich Injury Lawyers. Our attorneys will listen carefully, review the evidence, and give you an honest assessment of your options, including whether filing a lawsuit is even the right move.
Consultations are free. You pay nothing unless we recover money for you. We respond to calls and form submissions promptly, and we can meet in person, by phone, or over video, whichever works best for you.
Contact us today to speak with our Baytown construction accident lawyer about what happened and what comes next.
