Texas trial court orders employer to produce safety-related materials in worker injury case
In a recent case, the Texas Court of Appeals disagreed with the trial court’s order compelling Home Depot U.S.A., Inc. to produce over 100 safety-related items that it used for training an employee who suffered injury.
The plaintiff, a Home Depot employee, initiated a personal injury case. The lawsuit claimed that he injured his back while loading a zero-turn lawn mower onto a customer’s trailer while he was working in November 2020.
Home Depot was allegedly negligent when it failed to provide a safe workplace; failed to offer safe and appropriate instrumentalities, equipment, and machinery; failed to hire competent and careful coworkers; failed to adequately staff its stores; and failed to refrain from instructing or requiring employees to use unreasonably dangerous methods to perform their work.
Home Depot also allegedly failed to sufficiently supervise employees and failed to adequately train workers, especially for unusually precarious tasks or those involving a greater risk of injury than their typical duties.
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The plaintiff sent a notice requiring Home Depot to designate a corporate representative who was authorized and prepared to testify on the following topics:
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