What fails most often: fire, electrical or mechanical?
Across the whole register, 921 entries are electrical faults, 977 are fires or thermal events and 215 are mechanical failures. Fires and electrical faults run close.
Counted from the register's published entries on 2026-11-03. Every entry is written from published news and trade reporting and lists its sources. Patterns across the register.
Read the count as a count of what is recorded. The register is new and has been filling in an archive, so a rise across years is a measure of the register, not of the world, and a country with open reporting appears more often than one without. The methodology says how entries are found, written and checked.
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