9 stories up and my coworker keeps on stepping across these 2 foot gaps

This is nothing. As a college student, I used to work at a feed mill for a summer job. We had to climb to the top of the elevator every now and then if one of the motors was broken or some other issue, it was probably about 200 feet up. In order to get there we had to jump from one grain bin to a nearby one, a gap about twice the one you are showing in the image. Why they didn’t put a walkway connecting the two grain bins I will never understand.

It wasn’t a difficult jump at all. The only way I could see someone messing up is if they tripped on a shoelace or slipped in the rain. I did it many times myself, but it was frightening every time. The only way to do it was just to not let yourself think about it. There is a survival mode in your brain that kicks in for things like this. Your body will do what it has to do. It’s a bit like an out of body experience for me anyway.

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