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Sure an arc blast can kill. If you don't know how to safely do a hot tap, you shouldn't be in the trade. For the average service upgrade, the key components are set cold, but immediately after that I need to get the service energized so my customer isn't without HVAC, refrigerator, and so forth. Utilities around here don't de-energize the aerial or buried service, so I have to handle it hot.
As far as code, the NEC is revised every three years. The current edition is 2005. Just the same, West Bohunk can legally certify occupancies to whatever edition they last adopted as a municipality, even if it's 5 or 6 years out of date.
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