While talking to him, we focused heavily on the usual safety requirements and how they worked to make sure that we had a solid understanding of what precautions would have applied if the claimant had properly used his safety gear. We even had the employer hop into a set of gear himself and send us pictures so we understood what each piece of gear was and how it worked!  We built a timeline to make it clear to the judge that the safety gear was checked by our witness two days prior to the accident, checked by the injured worker himself on the day of the accident before he went up the tower, and checked by our witness after the accident before it was confiscated by OSHA as part of their investigation.  We also made sure our witness understood why this timeline was so important, and why we needed the judge to conclude that the safety gear