goldstar
Senior Member
- Location
- New Jersey
- Occupation
- Electrical Contractor
I got a call from a builder that I work for and he tells me that while he was installing a basement window his neck inadvertently backed into a suspended ceiling grid and he got whacked. I went to the jobsite and after tracing the problem to one specific fluorescent fixture I found this :
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k130/goldstar13397/Fluorescentfixture003.jpg
The armored cable leaving the JB is suspended in mid air above the ceiling, not properly terminated to anything that resembles another JB and is splicxed to another armored cable in the same fashion which turned out to be the switch leg.
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k130/goldstar13397/Fluorescentfixture002.jpg
The black and white wires coming out of the top of the fixture are the leads to the ballast inside the fixture. The large black RX cable is an abandoned feed to an electric range/oven. Cable was not properly safed-off but I did remove it from the breaker panel
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k130/goldstar13397/Fluorescentfixture001.jpg
I would like to say "entry into" the light fixture but in this case I'll have to say "exit from" the light fixture is through a 1/8" mounting hole. The edge of the mounting hole cut into the black of the ballast wire and livened the ceiling grid. Thank God no one was seriously injured. Don't know what the rest of the ceiling above the grid looks like. I'm afraid to do any more fact finding. We may have to condemn the house.:grin:
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k130/goldstar13397/Fluorescentfixture003.jpg
The armored cable leaving the JB is suspended in mid air above the ceiling, not properly terminated to anything that resembles another JB and is splicxed to another armored cable in the same fashion which turned out to be the switch leg.
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k130/goldstar13397/Fluorescentfixture002.jpg
The black and white wires coming out of the top of the fixture are the leads to the ballast inside the fixture. The large black RX cable is an abandoned feed to an electric range/oven. Cable was not properly safed-off but I did remove it from the breaker panel
http://i87.photobucket.com/albums/k130/goldstar13397/Fluorescentfixture001.jpg
I would like to say "entry into" the light fixture but in this case I'll have to say "exit from" the light fixture is through a 1/8" mounting hole. The edge of the mounting hole cut into the black of the ballast wire and livened the ceiling grid. Thank God no one was seriously injured. Don't know what the rest of the ceiling above the grid looks like. I'm afraid to do any more fact finding. We may have to condemn the house.:grin: