Wooden Furniture in Electrical Substations

It would probably fall within fire codes. Different classes of fires require different methods of extinguishing. Having a combined alpha and charlie fire, just makes things more complicated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_classes

I think this would go beyond wood though. I believe that most local codes would not allow the use of substations as storage lockers.

I don't know where you are, but in the US, we probably have 15 different government agencies telling us not to pile up junk in substations.

http://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=standards&p_id=9868

Don't forget Bravo. Transformers in substations are oil filled, and are the greatest fire hazard there.

Yeah. That oil would burn, but it would take a pretty good explosion to rupture the transformer walls. At that point, I'd just let her burn. I guess the new silicone based oils are almost nonflammable.

Nonetheless, with or without written rules, piling up wooden crates, boxes and furniture inside a substation is not a good idea. I'd invest in a separate shed.

Sometimes they just leak, and then burn.

Agreed on the piling up of wood though.

Assuming that you are from India, refer to IE Rule No. 29.

It is certainly ill-advised to have <...Wooden Furniture in Electrical Substations...>.

• Why wait for <...international standards...> to surface?
• Why not just take the initiative, and do the right thing by getting rid of it instead? As in right now?

It is not forbidden in our country and we had a good practice to have documentation at paper form in every substation and transmission plant. For a short time while we had an American employer 15 year ago , our fire fighter service had an internal recommendation that all flammable material should be removed from high voltage facilities. Unfortunately, management took it literally and we lost all documentation . So now our younger workers have a problem with incomplete and incorrect documentation in repairs and emergency situations .

Metals burn as well, though...