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The hell is that electrical box doing... there's only one conduit coming into it, and it doesn't have a device on it... why does it exist??
maybe it was in the blueprints when the job was bid but hasnt been needed yet. or maybe thats where they store their coke and a tiny folding table and mirror.
Its either that, or it was once used and got abandoned. Either way I can't help but laugh at a meaningless box, even if it makes more sense to just abandon it than go through the effort of tearing it out
It seems to be some kind of production facility with machines standing in there. So maybe the Idea is to have electrical boxes on every pillar, so you'll have electricity available wherever you place the machines. If the production lines are changed regularly, you wouldn't want to rewire the entire building each time. A bit like these cubes hanging from the ceiling so you don't need to run extension cords through your workshop whenever you need power somewhere, but a bit more encapsulated.
if you could only see the software version of this, technical debt.
At that height I would bet it used to be a fire alarm, and the box got abandoned after the alarm system was changed
The conduit isn't painted red so it might not have been life safety, unless it got painted over to match the column after it became abandoned. My guess is an emergency light, which wouldn't have needed to be easily discernable. However, it does seem to have definitely had a purpose at one point because the (original) cover more than likely would have been painted to match as well, or would have not been necessary if was a device.
Regardless, even if it was an abandoned fire alarm circuit, the conduit should still be red.
Every electrical box has a story.