Found the 'missing' elevator inspection cert in a ceiling tile at a job in Tulsa

I was doing a safety audit on a 12 story building downtown and the paperwork for car 3 was supposedly lost. Spent 45 minutes digging through the maintenance office before I got annoyed and started poking around the machine room. Found it shoved up behind a loose ceiling tile above the controller, still in the envelope from 2022. Has anyone else dealt with building superintendents hiding records to avoid fines?

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betty_kelly916d agoTop Commenter

Last time I found a cert that way I also found someone's old lunch from 2019.

wendy13116d ago

What was in it, a moldy sandwich that expired before the pandemic? I found a half-eaten granola bar behind a server rack once. It basically fossilized into a new type of rock. Probably worth more than the certificate at this point.

diana51216d ago

Oh man, that fossilized granola bar is probably worth more than my 401k at this point. I found a moldy protein bar behind my work truck seat that was so hard I could've used it as a gravel substitute on a driveway job. I honestly think that thing could outlast concrete. If you had tried to eat it you would've chipped a tooth for sure.