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But my question is still.... A cable has a cut end. You do not know where it is fed from. It disappears into box section metal bar and emerges with several others which disappear left right and up higher than you can access. Putting it in a tape or wago box makes it safe (OK I should've done...

The plug thingy was only found after fiteing through the rats nest post dangerous incident. I made a bad judgement call. All for a two pound wagon box. The cable had been laid there like this for three years best guess following a machine replacement. Wago box. Silly spell checker.

I was wondering if there was a 'spike' like they use on the supply side available for small flexes like this... I can't find one. Andy. Yes it was live. And finding the other end of the cable after I made it not live took about an hour.

No noz one end was fitted with this south African plug via an adapter into a 13 a socket. The cut end once fed a light fitting that has been replaced with a completely different one. Andy. I accept that my remedy was wrong. Zimmys post made me realise just how daft I was. I suppose if they sack...

Somewhere else someone said use heatshrink. I fear I have committed a rather serious blunder. As to the signal gen the HSE guide I have got says if cable cores are not accessible cable detection equipment may be used in conjunction with a signal gen. I have made out a dangerous occurance form...

Connector blocks are fine when you have stripped outer sheath. I figured stripping this off was potentially a greater threat to my situation than what I did. Ordinarily I would have put another engineer on guard whilst the other end was foraged out. To be honest I am astounded at finding what I...

The cable came out behind a load of production paper work dissapeared into a nest of others that went left and right and up into the roof space. This point was well out of sight of the cable end dangling. Eventually it went into what appears to be a south African socket on a 13a plug plugged...

Thanks nozspark, but this is the problem, I had no idea where to isolate. How to make the end safe? Remember its as it was live.

No I did not leave it hanging there. Therein lies the problem. In the absence of the correct tools to identify which of all the surrounding boards it came from I took the (perhaps wrong) decision of forcing the end of this cable into earthed metal work to 'kill the cable', find the MCB and lock...

sorry, I should have said.I am the competant person. Its the p.o.v of other competent people. I am after.

Hi. I work in a factory. During the course of the days activities towards the end of the day (other competent people left the building) a cable was found by an unskilled person.  This cable was threaded through a metal work desk that has a functioning florescent tube mounted to it. It was in...