More Common Hazards

Here are a few more examples of hazardous or life-threatening situations in people’s homes, found and photographed by gas-elec engineers during actual inspections.

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	Sample of burned cable.
	A demonstration of how cable gets burned!
	Nibbled socket
	Another obvious hazard.
	This was the only warning our engineer received that the gas pipe in the room next door was not properly capped off...
	...and this is the taped up pipe! A very hazardous situation.
	This exposes the importance of moving equipment when conducting a safety inspection! These exposed live terminals were found behind a washing machine, and their danger hidden from view.
	Not only is this extension lead totally unusable, it's also extremely dangerous!