Most Violated Code Section

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Natfuelbilll

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What specific Code section is most violated in your industry?

My observations are:

Panelboads 408.4(B) Source of Supply missing

LFMC 350.30 Securing and Supporting not installed
 
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jap

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Mis-use of the tap rule and more than 1 wire under a lug.

Which usually go hand in hand anyway.

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augie47

augie47

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Much to my chagrin, I do more residential than commercial so my list of top "10" is mostly residential:
Box Fill, Nail Plates, issues associated with 210.52
 
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petersonra said:
I am curious what you mean by reduced size EGCs? For circuits of this rating the EGC always has to be the same size as the circuit conductors.
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One example, it's pretty standard practice in the company I with for to use #12 EGC's for 30 amp circuits.
 
Coppersmith

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Coppersmith said:
110.12 Mechanical Execution of Work. Electrical equipment
shall be installed in a neat and workmanlike manner.
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Here is a section from the 1897 edition of the NEC which may well have been the forerunner of the above section.

General Suggestions
In all wiring special attention must be paid to the mechanical execution of the work. Careful and neat running, connecting, soldering, taping of conductors and securing and attaching of fittings, are specially conducive to security and efficiency, and will be strongly insisted on.
 
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jaggedben

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What bothers me most is circuits in the same conduit not grouped so that you can match hots to neutrals.

Can't find the section, someone please remind me.
 
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Carultch

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300.5(J), the requirement for accommodating ground movement of underground conduit runs.

I see installations where the installer clearly put an expansion fitting in the stub-up with the intent to meet this rule, but other aspects of the way that the conduit was installed, completely defeat the purpose of the expansion fitting. Like the conduit is cast directly within a slab, and can't move anyway, or that the conduit was rigidly fastened to the structure at a point below the expansion fitting, that stops the conduit from rising in to the joint to accommodate ground movement like frost heaves.
 
brantmacga

brantmacga

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In my hometown, I can usually tell the most violated code sections by what my suppliers stock.

For instance, no one here stocks schedule 80 PVC, or rain tight compression connectors. And only one supplier stocks WR receps. I find myself ordering material on a regular basis that should be in stock.


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readydave8

readydave8

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Clarkesville, Georgia
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Now that I'm doing a lot of residential service work, I see what my competitors were doing back when I was doing new construction

Bare grounds twisted together without nut or crimp, and/or cut very short except for the one left long to go to device

Not the worst thing I see, but the most common

Also I'm always surprised when I find a box behind exterior wall mount fixture, more common is mounting strap screwed to siding
 
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