On 1) it's common practice to wirenut the conductors together on the dead
wire.  Then if someone got confused later and energized it they'd
immediately pop their breaker.  That's safer than having someone
accidentally put 208V into a wire hanging in the middle of nowhere.  I can't
imagine why it would be cited as "junction box without cover".

What type of wire is it?  Something like an SJOW coming out of a box?  Maybe
put a twist-lock socket on the end of it and re-energize it.  Now it's an
outlet.  

 

(2) might not be a misunderstanding.  NFPA has definitions for various
classes of flammable materials, and depending on what you're storing it
might not be that you can't put flammable items on the racks, rather you
might be required to have a sprinkler system in order to do so. 

 

-Adam

 

 

From: AF <af-boun...@af.afmug.com> On Behalf Of Chuck McCown via AF
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2023 6:17 PM
To: af@af.afmug.com
Cc: ch...@go-mtc.com
Subject: [AFMUG] OT NEC

 

Got gigged by the fire department today on a couple items.

 

1)    Hand coil of wire up in the ceiling over a spot where a machine used
to be.  Not gonna cut it off as some other machine may go there.  It is
coiled and cut dead and capped in the breaker panel.  They are quoting a
junction box without a cover and saying I guess I have to mount a big assed
box up there to enclose this dead wire?  Opinions.  

 

2)    Nothing flammable on our pallet racking.  Every warehouse I have ever
been has pallet racking full of things in corrugated boxes.  Having a hard
time buying this.  So we can only store steel and rocks up there.  They do
say we can put our non flammable items on a pallet....  Anyone ever run
across this before?

 

Best Regards,
Chuck McCown

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