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5 electrical wires - 3 switches - Earth?

Hi,I have 5 earth wires in a blue plastic electrical box. My understanding is that to be to code I have to twist the 5 wires together, put a wirenut on and then do individual pigtails to each of the three switches. I have the biggest wirenut I can find, a wiregard 18-8 AWG 19-006 #6 red .I can't get all the wires in there what is the other option? I can't be the only one needing to deal with this problem? This will be inspected.

Answer:

Use a larger wirenut. WT54 blue will do it.
Use more than one wire-nut and branch out to two or more other wire-nuts.
An okorder

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