Broken Receptacle Grounding pins???
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brian john
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If 10% of the receptacles are broken from a downward jerk, a same percentage will be broken but this time from a jerk of the cord up.
The key here is a employee seminar on the safe way to remove a male attachment cap from a wall mounted receptacle, covering both the up and down ground pin. Just in case at some later date the ground up crowd finally gets this into code. The seminar can be called STOPPING THE JERK FROM JERKING.
got_nailed
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There is a 300 rule. Between 200 and 300 near misses there will be an accident.
How often are they pulling the cord out of the 3 prong base leavening it in the receptacle? Where I work at (manufacturing plant) they pull the ground pin out of the fan cords leavening them in the receptacles.
Our plant had a 4 hour seminar on how to plug and unplug something. The funny thing was it was all based on 110 plugs. At the end I asked about a twist lock and everyone just looked at me (220), don?t think any know what I was asking about except for the matinees workers.
How often are they pulling the cord out of the 3 prong base leavening it in the receptacle? Where I work at (manufacturing plant) they pull the ground pin out of the fan cords leavening them in the receptacles.
Our plant had a 4 hour seminar on how to plug and unplug something. The funny thing was it was all based on 110 plugs. At the end I asked about a twist lock and everyone just looked at me (220), don?t think any know what I was asking about except for the matinees workers.
brian john
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- Leesburg, VA
Seminar about how to plug and unplug an attachment cord cap well OK 15 minutes of a electrical safety meeting but a 4 hour meeting.....is this where we have arrived at.
Explain please.
matinee workers? Once again explain PLEASE!
Explain please.
matinee workers? Once again explain PLEASE!
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jaylectricity
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- licensed journeyman electrician
brian john said:
I'm pretty sure he meant maintenance workers...but if there was a "matinee" worker, I would suspect that he/she would be a drive-in.
Replace them
Replace them
We had a simular problem here. What happens is the cleaning staff stands about 20ft away and wips the cord on the vac. We spent several hours with the suppervisor and then started back chargeing for T&M on replacement. The receptacles no longer get broken and I no longer recieve audit problems
Replace them
We had a simular problem here. What happens is the cleaning staff stands about 20ft away and wips the cord on the vac. We spent several hours with the suppervisor and then started back chargeing for T&M on replacement. The receptacles no longer get broken and I no longer recieve audit problems
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