Apprentice question
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Stop. Get direction before you touch it.
Pull damaged cords out of service before running high-load tools. Tag the cord and get a safe lead instead of gambling with shock or fire.
['You grab a tangled extension cord out of the gang-box to run your high-speed plasma cutter. You ignore a small nick in the outer insulation jacket layer, and the cord short-circuits and sparks out when the tool draws high load amperage.', 'Pull damaged cords out of service before running high-load tools. Tag the cord and get a safe lead instead of gambling with shock or fire. The likely recovery is to check the condition, correct prep/setup if it is within your assignment, and bring the foreman clean information before the work creates rework overhead.']