Report faulty wiring - electrical fires are hard to control
Company safety poster: an illustrated worker in a cap holds a telephone receiver and looks toward a junction box sparking at upper left. Text reads 'Report faulty wiring' and, in flame-tipped letters, 'Electrical fires are hard to control'. The fear-appeal is the sparking wire and the flame lettering; the instruction is to phone in the fault.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Bethlehem Steel Company
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Labor, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Bethlehem Steel Company. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1635 (NAID 515301).
Text on the object
REPORT FAULTY WIRING Electrical fires are hard to control © BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY
