All,
Please see the below industry notice the NV Energy team has asked us to circulate. As a reminder, while working around meters to please remind your superintendents and trades to be mindful as to avoid damaging them. If you have any questions, please reach out directly to the NVE team.
I wanted to bring a concern to your attention in hopes that you can pass along the information to the residential builder's community. I was informed that we are noticing increased occurrences where our electric meters are damaged while in service. Based on what our field services personnel have observed, the removal of scaffolding is the likely culprit. In the most recent case (see pictures below), when the framing collapsed, the horizontal came crashing down, destroying our meter and causing significant damage to the main service panel. The damage was severe that we were called out to de-energize the service to avoid anyone getting shocked or hurt.
I'm sure there is a scaffolding removal procedure that ensures that objects around the scaffolding are not damaged.
