Dodger, most of what you say may / or may not be true but one thing that you say is not :
It's definitely marginal on safety(thats why I left it alone!)
I have been operating there for NJI and this is not the case. Did you do any work for them, or did you just go for an interview, look around the office and decide that it was an unsafe operation from inside, before you "left it well alone" ?