jcleavit
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Are ice machines, that are not located in a commercial kitchen, required to be GFCI protected?
GFCI's on ice machines
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- Tennessee NEC:2017
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
Unless it is a vending machine (pay to get ice) then an ice machine is not on the list of things requiring GFCI protection in the 2017 NEC.
jcleavit
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The ones that we have in our hospital are either stand alone ice machines or the ones that sit on top of the soda machines. The reason I ask, one of the other hospitals in our system just got hit for not having the ice machines plugged into a GFCI receptacle. I could not see anywhere in NEC or NFPA 99 that justified their finding. Any thoughts on this?
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
Not unless the ice machine is within 6' of a sink or in a commercial kitchen. Who "hit" the other hospital, electrical inspector, OHSA, ?
jcleavit
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We have a "Joint Commission" inspection every three years. They come around and evaluate everything from our building to our medical records. The inspector cited NFPA 99 ch 6 and 9 for the violation and I dug through those chapters and did not see anything that referenced the violation specifically except that ch 6 states that we need to meet the NFPA 70 standards. You might be on to something with the 6' from a sink rule though. I'll try to see if that was the condition that their ice machine was in. We are expecting our inspection in the next few months so I am just trying to prep for it.
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