Above is from the KAS thread that I had posted earlier and misidentified the mod that was having an error.
Ok, so I arrived home now and am looking into this further. It is indeed 1.5 dressed for success. Before trying a fresh install I did a little troubleshooting. Turns out another engineer had no trouble doing the exact same thing on the KSC launchpad as I was trying to do on the Mun.
I then switched to my Mun base and tried again with the engineer that I previously had an issue with and the issue remained.
Lastly I tried grabbing another engineer also in my Mun base only to find he had no issue equipping the same exact electric screwdriver and attaching an item with it.
Here is the log file: https://ufile.io/go5nj
At this point I can easily work around the problem by just using another Engineer. If you think it may be a bug of some kind that you want to look into I'd be happy to assist in any way I can.
Thanks again,.