treatment of multiple ground wires in single, 3-gang switch box.

[isaiah]

I am trying to understand what one does with all of the ground wires in a 3-gang plastic switch box. I have a box with 3 switches in it and five standard house wires entering it. Do you crimp all the grounds together and just push them to the back of the box? or...Do you crimp all the grounds together and add a bare copper from that cluster to the grounding screw on one switch? or...do you have to connect that lead to all three switchs' grounding points?

I am assuming that if you crimp all of the grounds together and just push them out of the way, you've done all that you need to do, ie: that the grounding in the master panel is enough.

Thoughts?

Thank you.

[JP]

Connect a short piece of ground wire to the ground screw on each switch, and then connect all three of them to the ones entering the box with a large wire nut.