I am a Foreman in the line dept. for a IOU, 38 years on the job. Unfortunately this kind of practice is far too common. Many home owners will back-feed through a dryer receptacle during a power outage without realizing the deadly consequences they are imposing upon themselves and the unsuspecting lineman. Lineman take precautions to avoid energization of the line transformer by uneducated neophytes, but the neighbor a mile down the road may not be as lucky if a downed conductor is in his hand at the moment of generation.
Be Safe, Not Sorry Bruce Irvine Sr. February 22 2019, 10:05 pm EST
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I came across this man who is promoting electrical backfeeding on HUD foreclosed homes that do not have power turned on by unlicensed property preservation "contractors" He promotes the unsafe practices in these videos to "contractors" across the country. He says HUD says it's "legal" to do but even though I'm NOT an electrician I'm pretty sure it against OSHA being he shows the use of a double male cord and against NEC as even though the breaker is off, he backfeeds with the Neutral still tied to the grid and the generator is NOT grounded either, just sitting on a trailer. Indeed HUD FSM national companies do promote this practice as I have a friend in the business who refuses to backfeed and loses work over his refusal. I'm not sure how HUD gets away with it either. I'm hoping someone can get this to the proper authorities before someone gets killed doing this or worse yet, kills someone else. He runs a site called 