"The guy getting electrocuted had nothing to do with an unqualified person doing electrical work, did it?"
My point was that service to the meter was not 100 or 200 amp, both very deadly, but rather considerable more than that. In any event, his boots were smoldering and he was dead just the same.
As far as working from the main towards the service, perhaps the National Electric Code has changed since I last looked at it, and it does get updated every couple of years, but when I last saw it, it still specified licensed electrician from the main back towards the service, very clearly in writing. Most municipalities base their electric codes on the NEC, although some are more stringent. Are some less stringent? Perhaps, but I don't know why they would since there is little leway when using the national standard adopted by most municipalities. Little room for arguement in a ourtroom, should the occasion arive.
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