9 Ways Old Electrical Wiring Could Cause Significant Fire Hazard in Your Factory

How Many Fires Incident Happen Every Year All over the World?

It is very difficult to calculate the number of fire incidents all over the world; because the national fire incident reporting system of maximum countries has not enough to attend to all fires even record each individual incident history. But we can imagine the volume of fire incidents and fire losses by analyzing some examples from yearly fire incident records of some developed countries like USA & UK.

Fire Incident Loss in the United States During 2017

(Source: Ben Evarts, NFPA Report October 2018)

United States fire departments responded to an estimated 1,319,500 fires in 2017. These fires resulted in 3,400 civilian fire fatalities, 14,670 civilian fire injuries, and an estimated $23 billion in direct property loss (this figure includes a $10 billion loss in Northern California wildfires). There was a civilian fire death every 2 hours and 34 minutes and a civilian fire injury every 36 minutes in 2017. Home fires caused 2,630, or 77%, of civilian fire deaths. Fires accounted for four percent of the 34,683,500 total calls. Seven percent of the calls were false alarms; 64% of the calls were for medical aid such as emergency medical services (EMS) or rescues.

Every 24 seconds, a fire department in the United States responds to a fire somewhere in the nation.

UK Home Office Collected Information on Fire Incidents that attended Fire and Rescue Services.

This information covers fires, false alarms, and other incidents attended by fire crews, and the statistics include the numbers of incidents, fires, fatalities, and casualties as well as information on response times to fires. The Home Office also collects information on the workforce, fire prevention work, health and safety, and firefighter pensions.

	Total incidents				Total incidents per 1 million people
Year	England	Scotland	Wales	Great Britain	England	Scotland	Wales	Great Britain
1999/00	929,573	..	..	..	18,958	..	..	..
2000/01	912,741	..	..	..	18,539	..	..	..
2001/02	990,793	..	63,907	..	20,036	..	21,960	..
2002/03	958,142	..	62,540	..	19,287	..	21,397	..
2003/04	1,016,028	..	63,832	..	20,351	..	21,729	..
2004/05	861,384	..	52,866	..	17,161	..	17,876	..
2005/06	843,734	..	52,485	..	16,673	..	17,676	..
2006/07	854,371	..	56,675	..	16,764	..	18,982	..
2007/08	791,746	..	55,086	..	15,409	..	18,324	..
2008/09	717,805	..	49,293	..	13,853	..	16,290	..
2009/10	680,634	103,781	46,341	830,756	13,040	19,836	15,249	13,739
2010/11	647,350	101,414	46,881	795,645	12,297	19,272	15,371	13,053
2011/12	606,937	91,558	39,997	738,492	11,429	17,275	13,055	12,014
2012/13	521,277	83,830	36,251	641,358	9,745	15,776	11,792	10,364
2013/14	526,803	84,907	38,599	650,309	9,780	15,937	12,522	10,442
2014/15	496,124	85,072	36,425	617,621	9,134	15,908	11,780	9,842
2015/16	529,433	88,869	36,750	655,052	9,664	16,540	11,858	10,355
2016/17	560,408	91,220	37,216	688,844	10,140	16,878	11,954	10,799
2017/18	565,717	91,695	36,764	694,176	10,171	16,903	11,764	10,818

If you analyze the national fire incident report for a particular period, you will find most fires are because of old electrical wiring. When your residence or business is housed in a historic building, or older than 20 years, you cannot say your electrical wiring is reliable, you are with old-fashioned electrical wiring. You must set your mind to replacing the old electrical wiring. The reason why so many fires in older buildings are caused by their aging electrical. Here are some of the hazards of having old electrical systems in your business:

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01. Knob and Tube Wiring

Most old buildings are old electrical wiring methods known as “knob and tube” wiring. It becomes one of the significant fire hazards or electrical fires when it’s altered, or chewed by rodents. 

02. Under Sized Wiring

Comparing old type appliances, the modern equipment and appliances consumed more energy turning the old electrical wire and circuit breaker undersized.   This can result in the overloading of circuits, which can also cause electrical fires. Running new electrical wires in the old house could reduce fire hazards.

03. Poor Insulation Resistance

Due to the heating effect again and again year after year, the wire insulation becomes poorer for the poorest. Wiring screws, nails, clamps others metallic parts simply become brittle or disintegrated from age, finally, fire happened due to old-fashioned electrical wiring. So, replacing old wiring with new, keep your factory free from fire hazards.

04. Poorly Modified Wiring

In older buildings, the old-style electrical wiring, mainly those from the early twentieth century, it’s not uncommon for wiring, often types of electrical wiring in old homes by wiring technician who had no electrical training. 

05. Faulty Control Units

It’s not only the old house electrical wiring that is a fire risk, the electrical circuit controlling devices like circuit breaker also some times are very old fashioned or simply used fuse wire instated of modern circuit breaker. If your distribution panel hasn’t been upgraded recently, then it’s entirely possible that the switches and breakers that make up the circuits might be faulty. Select the perfect electrical control devices we reduce the fire hazard significantly.

06. Poor Electrical Design

Poor electrical design is another major problem for types of electrical wiring in old homes. If your building and wiring systems are too old, your electrical system may have been designed to meet codes that were in force 50 or even 80 years ago that not meet the recent electrical codes. So, think how to run new electrical wire in old house

07. Faulty Appliances

As per national fire incident reporting system, most electrical fires are caused by faulty electrical outlets and old, outdated appliances. Faulty switches, damaged or unsafe appliance cords and receptacles etc. are the main source of electrical fire.

08. Old Electrical Wiring Without Ground

Poor and Old Wiring Main Causes to Electrical Fire Incident

Most of the cases you will find old electrical wiring no ground, also removing the grounding plug from a cord so it can be used in a two-prong electrical outlet can also cause a fire. Proper grounding could reduce the electrical hazard significantly.

09. Extension cords 

Common fire incidents from misuse of extension cords. Without considering the capacity of the appliancean, just plugged directly into an outlet and plugged into an extension cord for any length of time, we welcomed the fire hazard. 

Final Speech: Simple way to reduce the electrical fire hazard in your factory or residence is to check the electrical wiring system periodically and follow the national wiring codes. One more important note for you, if you notice any sign of an electrical problem, such as lights blinking, appliances that work irregularly, breakers that keep tripping, or a burning smell of a short circuit, do not try by self, just call an expert technician to rectify and keep hazard free.