Trip and Fall

11th November 2012  |   trip and fall  | 0 comments

Objective Advice using Technology

Property owners must maintain safe premises. The question often remains: "Was the trip hazard Open and Obvious?" Several human factors relate to the ability of a pedestrian to detect and identify a trip hazard, including lighting, conspicuity (an object's attention-grabbing characteristics), foreseeable travel path, the size of the object and if the person had previously encountered the object. Through use of an architectural model, we illuminated the jury's understanding of the trip and fall circumstances, and the ease by which the property could have mitigated the known hazard -- a $775,000 verdict.