Installation of cutouts on an electric pole

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I need guidance on safety codes that regulate the number of cutouts installed on an electric pole and required spacing between them.
I have an underground 4160V line coming up the pole. There is already one set of cutout and transformer installed on this pole. Now I need to install another tap on this incoming 4160V, which will go through cutouts and feed a pad-mount transformer. Please see the attached pictures and let me know if I can use the spare crossarm on the top. If so, please provide the code reference or literature.

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Is this under the scope of the NEC?
If so what articles in the NEC have you looked at?
You are asking a question on HV engineering and it would seem you should have in house standards for this.
 
In-house standards are in place but didn't explicitly talk about this exact scenario. NESC Section 234B2A-Exception 2 made more sense to me. Do you concur?

Attached is the plan for design.
 

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Concur?...again this is an National Electrical Code forum.
We have a one or two members here who are knowledgeable on the NESC, but that is not our focus
 
That exception you quoted doesn’t allow that unless you de-energized the entire pole.
Unless I’m looking at something wrong. Are those fuses feeding backwards?
 
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