California Code of Regulations › Title 8 - Industrial Relations › Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations › Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety › Subchapter 6 - Elevator Safety Orders › Group II - Elevator Installations for Which the Installation Contract Was Signed Before October 25, 1998 › Article 7 - Hoistways, Hoistway Enclosures, and Related Construction for Power Cable-Driven Passenger and Freight Elevators › Section 3018 - Horizontal Car and Counterweight Clearances

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Between Car and Hoistway Enclosure.
The clearance between the car and the hoistway enclosure, or any
						projection in the hoistway, shall not be less than 1 in. (25mm) except on the
						sides used for loading and unloading.
(b) Between Car and Counterweight and
						Counterweight Screen.
The clearance between the car and the
						counterweight shall be not less than 1 in. (25mm).
The clearance
						between the counterweight and the counterweight screen and between the
						counterweight and the hoistway enclosure, or any projection in the hoistway,
						shall be not less than ¾ in. (19mm).
(c) Between Cars in Multiple Hoistways.
The running clearance between the cars
and any equipment
						attached thereto,
of elevators operating in a multiple hoistway, shall
						be not less than 2 in. (51mm).
This clearance must be increased when
						guards between adjacent pits are required.
(d) Between Cars and Landing Sills.
The clearance between the car platform sill and the hoistway edge of
						any landing sill, or the hoistway side of any vertically sliding
						counterweighted hoistway door or of any vertically sliding counterbalanced
						biparting hoistway door, shall be not less than ½ in. (13mm) where side
						steel guides are used,
and not less than ¾ in. (19mm) where
						corner steel guides are used.
The maximum clearance shall be not more
						than 
						11/2 in.
						(38mm). Where wood guides are used, the clearance shall be not less than
						¾ in. (19mm).
(e)
						Between Landing Side of Car Platforms and Hoistway Enclosures.
The
						clearance between the edge of the car platform sill and the hoistway enclosure
						or fascia plate for the full width of the clear car entrance opening shall be
						not more than 5 in. (127mm).
EXCEPTIONS to subsection
						  3018(e):
1. The clearance may be increased to not more
						than 
						71/2 in.
						(190mm) for vertically sliding hoistway doors of the pass type or of the heavy
						duty type requiring special sills for extra wide openings.
2. Existing elevators whose hoistways are
						equipped with vertically sliding hoistway gates in which a clearance of not
						more than 6 in. (152mm) is permitted for that distance necessary for operation
						of the gates plus 24 in. (610mm).
3. Existing elevators which can be started
						only from the car in which a clearance of not more than 6 in. (152mm) is
						permitted.
4. Existing elevators
						which have been equipped with interlocked or contact locked car gates or
						interlocked car doors at the entrance where the clearance exceeds 5 in. (127mm)
						provided the lock is inaccessible from inside the car. Interlocks arranged to
						comply with Section
						3021(d)(1)(D) are
						acceptable.