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Fire Prevention - Idle Wooden Pallet Storage |
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A fire involving wooden pallets can spread quickly and cause structural failure in adjacent buildings or structures. | ||||||||
Wooden pallets most commonly are associated with warehouses, but most facilities have idle wooden pallets either inside or near storage buildings.
Wooden pallets stored in protected areas, such as a storage building or under an overhang, quickly lose moisture. As a wooden pallet dries out, its edges tend to become frayed or splintered. Under this condition, an ignition source can ignite the pallet easily. Storage When pallets are stored on edge or ed, they create a vertical space that allows for rapid burning. Vertical positioning provides the greatest amount of surface area for combustion. A fire occurring at the base of a pallet will spread upward as the riding gases pre-heat the thin slats above. This causes the fire to spread rapidly throughout the pallet pile. Flat stacking of pallets provides less surface area for combustion. When pallets are placed one on top of another, the thin slats typically cover each other, reducing available surface area. Due to the severe fire potential of wooden pallet storage, consider the following: Among these requirements: References Storage of Idle Pallets, (December 2007). Storage of Combustible Pallets (January 2016). Source: Joe Mlynek is president of Progressive Safety Services LLC, Gates Mills, OH:joe.mlynek@progressivesafety.us, and content creation expert for Safety Made Simple, Inc., Olathe, KS;joe@safetymadesimple.com
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