He didn’t stop the test by calling. He stopped it by climbing the ladder to the crane’s maintenance walkway, pulling out a red permanent marker, and writing across the beam’s paint in block characters:
“My daughter wrote that book,” she said. “You read it right.” Crane-supporting Steel Structures Design Guide 4th Edition
Lian’s phone buzzed. Old Xu: “Sign the load test approval. Don’t be a poet.” He didn’t stop the test by calling
Then he took a photo, attached the ultrasonic scan data, and emailed it to every address in the project’s safety distribution list, with the subject line: “Tangshan was not operator error.” pulling out a red permanent marker