Insufficiently secured or own fault?

Whether the found cover of the inspection shaft can also cause this increased attention – or whether it "disappeared" in the terrain, so to speak, for his eyes – whether an additional flutter tape should have been attached, I do not know; but I suspect it.

Where we are back at the point of intentional action, which has been completely ignored so far... the inspection shaft did not "disappear" in his eyes because he consciously stepped onto this elevation to reach a better position for him... so he perceived the shaft and did not "overlook" it...

Where we are back at the point of intentional action, which has been completely ignored so far... in his eyes, the inspection shaft did not go under because he consciously stepped on this elevation to achieve a better position for himself... so he noticed the shaft and did not "overlook" it...

Heaven, dear God.... didn’t I just write about emotions? Do you seriously want to suggest that the construction worker - at the moment he stepped onto the shaft - HAD TO know what YIELDING structure he was stepping on? Because I can’t walk on water, it would be new to me that anyone has repeatedly done so for 2015 years ;) Rhineland greetings

What a discussion again :eek: I'm curious to see how it all turns out. In the end, much ado about nothing

No... but I have to assume a little common sense in an adult man... I simply don’t stand fully loaded on an uncertain surface... especially since a manhole does not meet the requirements of a ladder...

How is he doing?

Do you seriously want to suggest that the construction worker - at the moment he stepped onto the shaft - MUST have known what FLEXIBLE structure he was stepping on?

And that is exactly the crux of the matter, why I believe that it was inadequately secured: Something was placed on the shaft where one could not tell whether it would give way. Normally a shaft is walkable - as logical as that seems to the OP, it does not have to be so for an outsider (including the construction worker). Unless you explicitly pointed it out to him, which was not the case.

It is no use always insisting on the supposedly common sense to free oneself from responsibility. If it were that healthy, there would be no wars, etc. ;)