The first three wire receptacles I ever seen installed was the new house that Dad had built in 1968. I always install the receptacles this way. Later everywhere receptacles were installed with the ground pin down. Cords were also set-up this was. When My mother was in a relatively newly constructed nursing home in the LAST stages of Alzheimer's I notice the plug were installed ground pin UP. I said something to my Brother who has a Doctorate in Physic. He told me that there is a code requirement for the position of the receptacle. He said in a fire investigation it was discovered that a piece of paper had fell and landed on a the ground and the hot blades of a cord that was not fully inserted in to the receptacle which had it's ground pin down. This started a fire. The new code also says if you lay the receptacle down, the WIDE blade must be UP.
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