The public account of the east seam relies on the soundings book and the crew’s pre-entry inspection cards. A review of that source and the field notes finds a specific limit: the count can be repeated, but it does not include a hairline change in the slate above the second timber brace.
Dara Vek checked the soundings book and the crew’s pre-entry inspection cards against the field notes. The method is to start at the shift handoff, where an official total can lose its context; it confirms the entries, but not every interpretation attached to them. The comparison covers 41 soundings recorded before entry; 44 appear in the prior file. No signed correction to either entry was present when this review closed.
Uldra Ker, shift foreman on the east face, said the source register was complete for its stated purpose. The office has not provided a separate measure for whether the new iron markers reveal movement early enough to keep crews out of a failing face, so the public record cannot yet show which account is more representative.
The foreman calls the readings a useful warning; the survey office says the marks need a second instrument before they can justify a closure. The current record does not settle that disagreement. This report does not establish that either side misstated the evidence. It establishes that the published total is narrower than the conclusion being drawn from it.
A new complaint or proposal has been entered under a dated docket. The entry belongs to the public comment close file at the East Seam, four galleries below the old cart rail. A second surveyor will repeat the readings from the opposite wall. The next file should preserve the original entries and explain any change in method.
