Shreveport construction work sits on the highway and interchange jobs along I-20 and I-49, the medical-district builds near the Ochsner LSU Health campus on Kings Highway, and the casino and hospitality projects on the Red River waterfront. A worker hurt on one of those sites is taken to Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport, the Level I trauma center on Kings Highway, or to Willis-Knighton Medical Center on Greenwood Road. When police respond, the Shreveport Police Department writes the report inside the city limits and the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office writes it outside them. A Caddo Parish suit is filed at the Caddo Parish Courthouse, 501 Texas Street, in the First Judicial District Court. Trey Morris Injury Lawyers is at 509 Milam Street downtown, across the street from the courthouse, and in the first week we identify every contractor on the site, request the incident report, and send preservation letters for the equipment and the daily logs.
The law that governs the claim is Louisiana law and it is the same in every parish. A Caddo Parish job-site injury runs on two tracks at once: a workers compensation claim against the company that signs your paycheck, and a third-party negligence claim under La. C.C. Art. 2315 against every other contractor whose crew, equipment, or shortcut put you in the hospital. Trey Morris Injury Lawyers starts that file with the La. C.C. Art. 2320 employment question, because the first words out of the other side are exclusive remedy, and that phrase is not the whole case.
Results for Louisiana Clients
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Failure to maintain proper safety protocols led to an explosion at an industrial plant causing a series of catastrophic injuries from broken bones, burns, spinal injury, and mental anguish.
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Brain and spinal injuries followed an oil-field company failing to maintain equipment and provide a safe work site.
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At a worksite, an excavator operator dropped a crane mat onto our client.
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An oil-field safety violation injured our client.
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The other vehicle failed to yield the right of way and collided with our client, who suffered back injuries.
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The at-fault driver failed to yield the right of way and collided with our client, who suffered neck injuries.
Past results do not guarantee future outcomes; each case is decided on its own facts.
Trey Morris Injury Lawyers has handled construction injury claims in Shreveport and across Louisiana for more than two decades.
Construction Site Accidents in Shreveport and Caddo Parish
Construction is one of the most dangerous industries in Louisiana. The Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks fatal occupational injuries by state, and construction sits among the top categories for Louisiana worker deaths year after year.
You can watch the work from the road here. Highway and interchange jobs along I-20 and I-49. Medical-district builds near the Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport campus on Kings Highway. Casino and hospitality projects on the Red River waterfront, heavy equipment and large crews on one footprint. Industrial and energy work across the parish carries its own hazards, and Louisiana industrial injury lawyers handle the overlap where a construction accident is also an industrial worksite injury. The exposure on all of it comes down to a short list: struck-by incidents, falls, and equipment.
A civil claim out of a Caddo Parish construction accident is filed at the First Judicial District Court, 501 Texas Street, which hears the full range of personal injury litigation, third-party construction claims against general contractors, subcontractors, equipment owners, and property owners included. If your site was across the river in Bossier Parish, the suit goes to the 26th Judicial District Court in Benton instead.
Workers compensation and the civil claim are not alternatives. They run on different rules, name different defendants, and pay for different things, and in most cases you pursue both at the same time.
This week, write down the full name of every company that had people on that site: the general contractor, your employer, the crane or equipment outfit, the property owner. Names on paper become defendants later.
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Workers Compensation and the Exclusive Remedy Doctrine
Exclusive Remedy
The Louisiana rule that stops an injured employee from suing their direct employer in civil court. Workers compensation is the only claim you have against the company that hired you. It does nothing to your claims against the other outfits that caused the injury.
Exclusive remedy closes one door. You cannot sue your own employer in civil court over a job-site injury in Louisiana, however the accident happened. Everybody else on that site stays open, which is why a construction file is worth reading twice.
Comp pays your medical treatment and a share of your lost wages whether or not anyone was careless, and you prove no fault to get it. The trade is that the benefits are capped and comp pays nothing for pain and suffering. That gap is what the third-party claim is for.
The bar covers your direct employer and stops there. If a subcontractor, a general contractor, the property owner, or the outfit that owned the failed equipment contributed to your injury, you file against them while your employer’s carrier keeps paying benefits. Two tracks, running at the same time.
One wrinkle to know now rather than at the settlement table: your employer’s comp insurer generally has the right to be paid back out of the third-party money for what it spent on you. That lien is not always collected at full value, and how it gets negotiated changes what lands in your hands.
Ask the comp adjuster in writing for a printed benefit ledger, everything paid on your claim to date, medical and indemnity, itemized. That page is the number the lien argument runs on.
What Shreveport Clients Say
- Emma Dvorak
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- Diane Didier
I was recommended to Trey Morris by a friend, and they have been amazing!They kept me up to date with all the details of my case. I was in the loop during the entire process. Having to go over the details my accident was so uncomfortable, but they were so understanding and made every effort to make the entire process as smooth as possible. I would highly recommend Trey Morris and his team to anyone.
- Laurie Shearin
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- Zachary Krengle
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Third-Party Liability: Who Can You Sue Beyond Your Employer?
The civil claim is where the full range of economic and non-economic damages lives. The work is naming the right defendants.
The right to be paid at all comes from La. C.C. Art. 2315, the article the Louisiana law of negligence rests on: every act of a person that causes damage to another obliges the one at fault to repair it. On a construction site, that obligation reaches well past the company on your paycheck.
A general contractor that kept control of job-site safety answers for injuries caused by unsafe conditions there. Control is the word the case turns on. If the general had supervisory authority over the specific hazard that hurt you, you have a defendant. Courts look at who carried safety responsibility in the contract and at who was running it on the ground, and those are not always the same company.
Subcontractors whose people or equipment hurt you are defendants too. A sub’s crane operator drops a load onto you and that sub has civil exposure even though you clocked in for somebody else. La. C.C. Art. 2320 is the mechanism: respondeat superior makes an employer answerable for the damage its employees cause in the exercise of the functions they are employed for. Property owners answer for dangerous conditions on ground they own or control.
Respondeat Superior
The doctrine under La. C.C. Art. 2320 that makes an employer answerable for damage caused by its employees in the exercise of the functions for which they are employed. On a construction job, it is how a contractor is held responsible for the negligence of the workers it directed.
It matters for a practical reason. The man who made the mistake rarely has the money to pay a judgment; the company that directed him does. Proving the employment relationship, and proving he was doing his job when it happened, is central work rather than a technicality.
Pull the site sign-in sheets, daily reports, or badge records if you can still get to them, and note which company each name belonged to. If that paper is already out of reach, give us the date and the names you remember.
OSHA Violations as Evidence of Negligence
An OSHA citation written up after your Shreveport accident is admissible in a Louisiana civil case as evidence of the standard of care. OSHA standards set the federal safety floor every Caddo Parish site has to clear. The citation is not proof of liability by itself. It proves a specific safety rule existed there and that somebody broke it, which is where the negligence argument starts.
Hold onto that distinction, because the defense leans on it. The citation establishes the rule and the violation; your lawyer connects the broken rule to what happened to your body. OSHA investigation records, the inspector’s notes, and the contractor’s citation history are among the first documents we request in discovery.
A general contractor can answer for a subcontractor’s OSHA violation when the general kept control of the hazard. Your direct employer may be the sub that got cited, and the general’s supervisory role can still pull it into the case.
If OSHA came to your site, note the date they were there and the inspector’s name if anyone gave it to you. We request the file; that detail speeds it up.
Evidence Preservation and Spoliation
A job site does not wait for you. The morning after an accident, equipment gets moved, repaired, or hauled off, and crews finish and scatter to the next job. The condition that hurt you is often corrected within hours, which is good news for the next man up there and a problem for your claim if nobody photographed it first.
Spoliation
The destruction, alteration, or loss of evidence a party had a duty to preserve. When a responsible party lets site conditions, equipment, or records disappear after notice of a claim, a court can impose consequences for the loss.
Spoliation is why the lawyer you hire should send written preservation demands to every responsible party within days, not weeks. The demand puts the general contractor, the subcontractors, and the equipment owners on formal notice to hold photographs, maintenance logs, the equipment itself, inspection records, and internal emails about the accident. A company that destroys or alters that material anyway has handed you an argument in the litigation.
Preserve what you control too: photographs taken before repairs, witness names and cell numbers, your medical records, and the tools, harness, boots, and hard hat you had on, kept in the condition they were in.
Put your gear in a box today without cleaning or repairing it, then write out your own account of the accident while you can still see it.
Types of Construction Accidents in Shreveport
OSHA Fatal Four
OSHA’s name for the four leading causes of construction fatalities: falls, struck-by incidents, electrocutions, and caught-in or caught-between accidents. Those four account for most construction worker deaths every year.
All four turn up regularly in Caddo Parish claims.
Falls from heights kill more construction workers than anything else: scaffold collapse, leading-edge falls, ladder failures, falls off roofs and elevated platforms. When fall protection was missing or rigged wrong, the employer and the general contractor both carry exposure for the injuries and deaths that follow.
Struck-by means a worker hit by a falling object, a swinging load, or a moving vehicle. A dropped tool off an upper floor can be fatal before the man below has a second to look up. When a crane, forklift, or truck strikes a worker, the analysis turns on the operator’s conduct, the maintenance records for that machine, and whether anyone was controlling traffic on the site.
Caught-in and caught-between covers a worker pulled into rotating machinery, pinned between moving equipment and something fixed, or buried in a trench that gave way. Bulldozers, excavators, and concrete mixers are the usual machines. Trench cave-ins are the subset nobody survives without immediate extraction.
Electrocutions come from overhead power lines, unprotected wiring, or defective equipment. You do not have to be the electrician. Workers in the next trade over get hurt when the area was never cleared or energized equipment was never isolated.
Scaffold collapses get their own paragraph for a reason. A scaffold rarely takes down one man. Several go with it in a single event, each with an independent claim against the scaffold installer, the general contractor, and the equipment owner.
Workers hurt on Shreveport sites usually go to Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport, the region’s Level I trauma center on Kings Highway, or to Willis-Knighton. Records from the treating facility, dated the day it happened, are part of the evidence from the start.
Request a full copy of your chart, not the discharge summary, from every hospital and clinic that has seen you, and ask for itemized bills with it.
Shreveport Practice Areas
Car AccidentsRear-end, intersection, and highway collisions across Louisiana.
Truck Accidents18-wheeler and commercial-vehicle wrecks governed by federal trucking rules.
Catastrophic InjuryBrain, spinal-cord, amputation, and severe-burn injuries that change a life.
Wrongful DeathClaims brought by families after a fatal accident or act of negligence.
Premises LiabilitySlip-and-fall and unsafe-property injuries on someone else's premises.
Product LiabilityInjuries caused by defective or unreasonably dangerous products.
Oilfield AccidentsDrilling, pipeline, and refinery injuries across the energy sector.
Industrial AccidentsPlant, warehouse, and heavy-equipment injuries in industrial settings.
Offshore AccidentsRig, platform, and vessel injuries beyond the shoreline.
Louisiana Tort Reform and Filing Deadlines
Prescriptive Period
Louisiana’s word for the filing deadline, what most states call the statute of limitations. Blow it and the claim is almost always gone for good, however clear the fault was. For a third-party injury claim, the period is two years from the date of injury under La. C.C. Art. 3493.1.
You have two years from the date of the injury to file the third-party construction suit. La. C.C. Art. 3493.1 put that period in place of the one-year deadline Louisiana lived under before.
If somebody tells you that you have one year, check which rule governs your date of injury before you act on it.
Comparative Fault
The Louisiana rule that cuts what you collect by your own share of the fault. Under La. C.C. Art. 2323, effective January 1, 2026, a finding that you were 51% or more at fault ends the case with nothing. At 50% or less, your damages are reduced by your percentage.
The comparative fault rule changed on January 1, 2026. Under La. C.C. Art. 2323, 51% or more of the fault on you and you collect nothing at all. At 50% or less, your damages come down by your share. That is the 51% bar, and one point is the whole case. Defense lawyers and adjusters build a construction file around pushing your number over that line, usually by arguing you knew the risk or broke a safety rule, so the fault evidence has to be gathered in the first week rather than the first mediation.
Your case is heard at the First Judicial District Court, 501 Texas Street, which serves Caddo Parish. The Shreveport Police Department answers calls inside the city and the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office covers the parish, and whichever one came to your site wrote a report and generated investigation records that become part of the evidence. Getting the right paper from the right agency early is part of building the claim.
Write your date of injury on the front of the folder and count two years forward. That is the outside edge of your case, and everything else works backward from it.
Your Shreveport Trial Team
The lawyers who work your file. Every Shreveport case is handled by the firm's own trial attorneys.
What Compensation Does Louisiana Law Allow After a Construction Accident?
A third-party civil claim pays economic and non-economic damages both. Workers compensation pays nothing for pain and suffering. That difference is why the civil claim sits alongside the comp claim instead of replacing it.
Loss of Earning Capacity
The gap between what you could have earned over your working life and what you can earn now that you are hurt. A vocational expert calculates it and an economist reduces it to present value.
Economic damages are the medical bills you have and the ones ahead of you, the wages you lost while you were out, and loss of earning capacity when the injury permanently cuts what you are able to make. Future care and lifetime earnings figures hold up only with testimony from treating specialists, vocational experts, and economists. Nobody wins those numbers by estimating them on a legal pad.
Non-economic damages cover the pain, the mental anguish, and the permanent physical limits you are left with. Louisiana law allows them in civil tort claims. What they are worth turns on how bad the injury is, how long the pain lasts, and what it took out of your day.
Permanent disability keeps producing damages, through your working years and past them.
If a worker died of his injuries, the surviving family has claims under Louisiana’s wrongful death statutes. Where the injury left permanent, catastrophic harm, our catastrophic injury lawyers page covers that ground. The wrongful death claim and the survival claim travel the same civil road as any other third-party negligence suit, and the same comparative fault and prescription rules govern them.
Start one folder this week: the benefit ledger, your medical records, the photographs, the company names, and the date of injury on the cover. Bring it to Milam Street and we will tell you what is missing.