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In today's Daily News (NYC tabloid) there's an article about Con Ed inspecting many thousands of those ground level distribution panel covers and finding about a hundred with line voltage.
Article says voltages ranging from 50 to 120V.


The lower voltages likely imply leakage currents not enough to light a light bulb but enough to shock someone. Are these covers bonded to ground? Maybe those bonds went bad from salt corrosion?

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It's kind of scary that so many covers have become energized, but at least ConEd has taken some action after all the recent incidents.

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Has anyone ever seen a bonding jumper to handhole or manhole cover or its metal support ring? I never have.
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Well, before "Y2K", all of the manhole covers in the area of Times Square were welded shut as a safety precaution. Does that count?

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Only if the metal ring that the covers are welded to is connected to the electrical bonding system.
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