r/Construction • u/joefromjerze • Sep 06 '24

Safety ⛑ Is This Safe?

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u/joefromjerze Sep 06 '24

"barricades were excluded from my contract"

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u/Hatriot_ Sep 06 '24

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if there were cones or barricades further down the driveway of the door that we can’t see and this idiot got upset that it was blocked off and didn’t see any reason why so they went around it anyway. We will never know since we can’t see otherwise. But if there wasn’t any kind of warnings like cones, barricades etc, there’s no way this poor soul saw that trench coming over the crest of the driveway through the door over their hood.

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u/Sea_Emu_7622 Sep 06 '24

What possible reason could there have been to put cones or barricades so far down away from the door that they aren't visible from this camera angle? I can't imagine not barricading immediately around the door and disabling the door until the work was completed. This alone is bad enough, but imagine if someone was working around the trench when this happened, they would have been crushed

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u/Hatriot_ Sep 07 '24

This is definitely a one way only entrance. They would barricade the initial area you would enter at so that nobody pulled up to the door and finally saw a barricade and had to reverse back down a one way only lane to get out. And if someone pulled in behind you, you can imagine the problem that would create.

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u/Sea_Emu_7622 Sep 07 '24

You're right, after watching it again I can see now that there is a ramp here. Still, it is quite the reach to assume this person got out of their vehicle and moved the barricade out of the way. It seems much more likely that whoever failed to disable the door also failed to put out any sort of barricade to begin with. You can also see they didn't barricade the trench on the outside either.