Logs every visit with two taps, even with no signal, and puts it on the storm's own hour-by-hour record from the nearest NWS station.
Snow Removal Log: Plow RecordsLogs every visit with two taps, even with no signal, and puts it on the storm's own hour-by-hour record from the nearest NWS station.
Free What a Storm Record Needs for a Slip-and-Fall Claim
A checklist of what a snow contractor's records should show when a slip-and-fall claim arrives months after a storm. Not legal advice.
In the Snow Removal Log app, the storm part of this sheet fills itself in: when snow started and stopped at the nearest NWS station, the gridded snowfall at the site, and when your trigger was reached.
These forms are not legal advice. Check your contract and your state's rules.
Snow Removal Log
What a Storm Record Needs for a Slip-and-Fall Claim
Timing
☐ When snow started and stopped, hour by hour, from a reliable and verifiable weather source
☐ The weather station or source named, so the same observations can be pulled again
☐ When the contract trigger was reached, and when the first crew arrived
Every visit
☐ Arrival and departure, to the minute, for every round
☐ Who was there and what equipment
☐ Services: plow, shovel, salt, sand or liquid, with the material and the amount
☐ Areas serviced and areas not serviced, with the reason
☐ Conditions as observed, without guesses about what happened later
☐ Time-stamped photos with their location
Keeping it
☐ Times corrected afterwards are marked as corrected, with the original kept
☐ Records kept for at least as long as a claim can be filed in your state
☐ A copy the property manager has seen
More free forms
Snow Removal Log SheetOne sheet per site per storm: when snow started and stopped, the trigger, and every visit with services, materials and conditions.Snow Plowing Log TemplateA route log for one truck and one storm: each stop's arrive and leave times, what was plowed, and what was left.Salt and Deicing Application LogEach application of rock salt, treated salt, sand or liquid deicer: where, when, how much, and the pavement temperature.Snow Removal Invoice TemplateAn invoice per storm or per month: each visit and its date, plowing, shoveling and salt by the pound, with the storm's dates for the property manager.