Is It Up to Code? Do You See the Hazard? [Electrical Safety]

While doing some volunteer work recently, I was removing broken sidewalk stones and digging down a few inches to eventually add sand new pavers. surprised find an underground wire from the building feeding lamppost distance away. Fortunately, wasn’t damaged by shovel, but this definitely electrical hazard, it could have resulted in injury. The local codes require be buried 24 (60 cm) or, if protected metal conduit, 6 (15 cm), unprotected only 4 (10 below surface. It is easy become complacent during simple job like not look for any hazards. We often assume that previous done properly all were followed.