A couple years ago I tossed one of those orange safety or hazard cones in the back of my truck. Somewhere along the line, at one of the Washington State Home Inspector Licensing Board meetings, a member made some mention that such a cone could be very handy. For example, such a device might be valuable if you had a hatch open that someone, like your buyer, the seller or an agent, might fall into.
Up until recently, although it rides quietly in my truck, I have never used the cone. Actually I found a use for it the other day. I probably would not have thought about using it, except in the current class at Bellingham Technical College there is a student who, years ago as a contractor, lost a lawsuit of nearly 1 million dollars when someone was injured at a floor he was working on in a commercial building.
With that in mind, since I was opening up a hatch in a deck, a couple hours prior to entering the crawl space below, I decided that a cone was in order since the sellers, an agent and the buyers were all on premises or scheduled to arrive.
Being safe made sense.
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