BTW: Argus, the largest scrap materials tracker, reported over 500 injuries and 3 deaths in 2020 from loose plugs. Apx 22% of those injuries were life altering. That’s generally, paralysis, blindness, loss of limb. That’s more injuries than coal, oil, and ordnance (explosives). Recovery Today reported nearly the same numbers.
In more modern systems (post early 2000s) wires are fed automatically and plugs are removed by machines that then feed them into separate processing that shreds them in enclosed or angled box shredders. Keeping a literal lid on expelled and ejected connectors. In older systems wires are fed from the end. A large screening system crusts off and removes anything thicker than the wire, like plugs, knots, and tangles. That’s automatically binned and processed by hand.
Better safe than sorry.
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