diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c897eb15..aaf9850d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+## 0.7.38-dev0
+
+* fix: Correctly assign mutable default value to variable in `TextRegions` class
+
 ## 0.7.37
 
 * refactor: remove layout analysis related code
diff --git a/unstructured_inference/__version__.py b/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
index 00957e17..4c2466d0 100644
--- a/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
+++ b/unstructured_inference/__version__.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-__version__ = "0.7.37"  # pragma: no cover
+__version__ = "0.7.38-dev0"  # pragma: no cover
diff --git a/unstructured_inference/inference/elements.py b/unstructured_inference/inference/elements.py
index 02771a47..8e6596af 100644
--- a/unstructured_inference/inference/elements.py
+++ b/unstructured_inference/inference/elements.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 from copy import deepcopy
-from dataclasses import dataclass
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from functools import cached_property
 from typing import Optional, Union
 
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ def from_coords(
 @dataclass
 class TextRegions:
     element_coords: np.ndarray
-    texts: np.ndarray = np.array([])
+    texts: np.ndarray = field(default_factory=lambda: np.array([]))
     source: Source | None = None
 
     def __post_init__(self):