Home Depot and its employees do their best to provide a safe and inviting atmosphere for all shoppers. But some of their store features, like high stacking inventory on 20-foot-tall shelves, creates potential hazards. In addition, employee negligence, customer misconduct, and other circumstances can also create hazards in the store.

Some of the accidents that can occur at a Home Depot include:

• Slip and fall incident, which can occur if there’s a wet spill that hasn’t been cleaned up or lacks adequate caution signage
• Trip and fall incident, which can happen if products or equipment are not stored away properly or when the floors or parking lot are not properly maintained
• Falling objects from unsafely stocked shelves or even equipment or product dropped by employees while stocking shelves or using equipment
• Cuts and bruises from improperly stored sharp equipment or products, like box cutters or blades, or from broken shelving or protruding equipment/products
• Issues related to chemical spills
• Employee negligence or error when completing any of their duties
• Employee misuse of equipment, including but not limited to forklifts, ladders, palettes, and more
• Equipment failure that causes an injury while using rented Home Depot equipment
• Assault and battery by another customer, a vendor, or an employee while on Home Depot property
• Sexual assault by another customer, a vendor, or an employee while on Home Depot property

Even if a Home Depot employee is not directly involved in the situation that causes an injury, the store can still be liable for any injury that occurs on their property per Texas’ premises liability statutes.