After a crush injury, the biggest risk isn’t only the pain—it’s that key proof gets overwritten, discarded, or buried in internal paperwork.
Do these first (if you can do so safely):
- Get medical care right away and ask clinicians to document the mechanism of injury (how you were caught/compressed).
- Request the incident report number (workplace) or any available documentation (site, security, employer).
- Save your own timeline: what you were doing, who supervised, what equipment was in use, and what you noticed immediately before the injury.
- Preserve device data if relevant: photos of the area, any visible guard/safety condition, and any signage or warning labels.
In Baltimore’s industrial settings, surveillance may be limited or routed through different systems. The sooner you act, the better your lawyer can send targeted record requests.


