A decision on the eastern hoist should be judged by what happens at the eastern hoist chamber above the deep cart line. The docket is at step 6 of the current review. Its latest entry reads: The responsible office has offered a limited remedy with an end date for review. A rule that looks complete in the chamber can still leave the people who use it carrying an unmeasured cost.
30 test lifts completed under load were entered this cycle, compared with 32 in the prior file. That comparison matters because the public summary counts entries. The open question is when to retire the main rope without cutting the only heavy route to the lower workshops.
The examiner has found no failed fibers; the crew argues that a rope can pass a bench test and still behave badly under a stop. The current record does not settle that disagreement. The objection deserves a direct answer, but it is not a reason to make the rule permanent before the affected residents can check the method.
Dara Vek checked the rope fiber samples and the hoist’s load-and-stop book 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 practical evidence is a pale strand showing through the outer twist near the lower drum; any new measure should record that condition beside the total.
The chamber should approve a limited trial with a published end date, a way to record exceptions and a named reviewer. The next trial will record a full stop with a stone load matched to the heaviest routine cart. That is the narrowest decision that can be defended from the evidence now available.
