No bonding to a cable is required in handholes (HH) and manholes (MH) if the cable is pulled through without a splice.

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Bonding in handholes and manholes is about ensuring metal parts stay at the same electrical potential and that a fault path is available if a conductor becomes energized. If a cable is pulled through a handhole or manhole without being spliced, there’s no new metallic fault path created by the cable inside that enclosure. The enclosure itself is normally bonded to the grounding system, so there’s no need to bond the cable to the enclosure in this specific scenario. Bonding would come into play only if a splice or termination inside the enclosure creates a new conductive path that could energize the enclosure and require equal potential. Parameters like wet area or run length don’t change this specific requirement.