**Hoffmann-Hayman factory**, **first floor**, **bay one** beside the **office** — oblique close-up on the **same column** as the **[stratified encasement opening](/assets/images/gallery/2026-04-24-factory-wall-section-mortar-fill-scratch-coat-osb-masonry-wall-tie.jpg)** — **24 April 2026** (**Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max**) — **off-white cement plaster or stucco skin** spalled and broken back to expose **dark expanded-diamond metal lath** embedded in the buildup; **several lath strips** **bent outward** like fingers and projecting from the void, casting **hard shadow** on the **rough pitted** remaining face; crumbly **aggregate** and **fine fiber** at the fracture lip — damage pattern consistent with **impact or prying** through the **column finish**, left **unrepaired** in the **office-adjacent** **first-floor** bay
** — **24 April 2026** (**Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max**) — **off-white cement plaster or stucco skin** spalled and broken back to expose **dark expanded-diamond metal lath** embedded in the buildup; **several lath strips** **bent outward** like fingers and projecting from the void, casting **hard shadow** on the **rough pitted** remaining face; crumbly **aggregate** and **fine fiber** at the fracture lip — damage pattern consistent with **impact or prying** through the **column finish**, left **unrepaired** in the **office-adjacent** **first-floor** bay](/assets/images/gallery/2026-04-24-factory-first-floor-bay-one-office-column-expanded-metal-lath-protruding.jpg)