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Problem: The round male prongs don't fit into the female outlet. Solution: Drive in a pair of nails that do. Then, since the nails conduct electricity, they can be hooked up with the prongs to establish the circuit.
While it may rate an A for ingenuity, this arrangement gets an F for safety given that the charged nails represent an electrocution hazard of the first order.
The Moral: Workers may go to all kinds of lengths to engineer their way around problems. Unfortunately, these makeshift solutions may lead to serious injury and even […]
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