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Below you will see a variety of problems we come across on a daily basis… we are here to help discover these potential disasters from happening and make you and your business safe.
All of these faults present a very real risk of fire, electric shock or both!
The businesses were completely unaware of any of these issues.
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Cable clamped incorrectly and insulation of neutral cable damaged exposing copper conductors
Socket badly cracked and burn mark indicate severe over heating at some point. Also, the switches are seized and do not operate
Earth wire not connected and poor quality connections to plug terminals
Cable not clamped correctly. Earth connection to terminal poor. Neutral wire probably making electrical contact with central plug screw
Melted plastic around fuse indicating severe overheating, cable clamp broken
Badly damaged socket
Damage to line and neutral wires exposing copper conductors, cable not clamped correctly
Very poorly wired plug. Cable not clamped correctly. Neutral terminal screw not connected causing neutral wire to hang free
Neutral wire disconnected from plug terminal
Socket badly damaged
Socket badly damaged
Fuse replaced with wrapped around wire
Plug and cable for a bench grinder that was in use – exposed copper conductors
It doesn’t get much worse than this! – Cable clamped incorrectly, earth wire not connected, fuse replaced with solid copper piece, neutral wire insulation damaged exposing copper conductors.
Plug wired incorrectly – the blue neutral wire is connected to the earth terminal!
Badly damaged socket
Badly damaged extension lead
Cable is not clamped correctly. The cable has been pulled very hard which has pulled the earth wire out of the earth terminal
Extension lead socket damaged exposing live conductors
This was the plug to a fluorescent light plugged into an extension lead. The plug has completely disintegrated!