Pennsylvania Code › Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY › Part I - Department of Labor and Industry › Chapter 7 - ELEVATORS, LIFTS, ESCALATORS, DUMBWAITERS, HOISTS ANDTRAMWAYS › Subchapter B - PASSENGER ELEVATORS › GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 7.54 - Landing doors and locking devices

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a)
General.
The shaftways of passenger elevators shall be
					 equipped with landing doors. The main or lowest landing door of all elevators
					 except automatic control, dual control, or double-button control elevators
					 shall be provided with a removable service key by which the door may be opened
					 when the car is at that landing. Doors at the lowest level and next to the
					 lowest level of elevators located in adjacent or multiple shaftways in new
					 installations except as noted in subsection (e) of this section, shall be
					 equipped in such a manner that they may be opened, regardless of the location
					 of the car, with a formed emergency key located under glass in the entryway or
					 corridor on the lowest floor. Such elevators may have all landing doors so
					 equipped. If an elevator is installed in a single shaftway, the emergency key
					 shall open all shaftway doors. This rule also applies to existing installations
					 when new landing doors are installed. A notice shall be placed on or over the
					 enclosure for the key, to the effect that the key is not to be used except in
					 case of emergency.
(b)
Landing doors.
The landing doors of passenger elevators shall
					 conform to the following:
(1)
Position.
The landing doors of all passenger elevators shall
					 have the inner side set as near flush with the interior walls of the shaftway
					 as is con sistent with the proper operation of such doors.
(2)
Doors.
Swinging doors
					 may be used at the shaftway entrances of automatic control elevators. Landing
					 doors of the butterfly, or folding, and slide-swing types are permissible. The
					 swinging panel arrangement shall be used only for emergency loads and not for
					 passenger traffic. Biparting or vertical operating doors are not permitted on
					 passenger elevators used exclusively for passenger service but may be installed
					 on combination passenger and freight elevators as provided in §
												7.37(d) 
					 (relating to combination elevators). Landing doors shall be at least 6 feet, 6
					 inches in height and shall be so constructed that when opened the opening does
					 not have a width in excess of the opening of the elevator car, when the
					 elevator car door or gate is in an open position.
(3)
Construction of entrances.
Landing entrances shall be securely attached to the walls of the
					 shaftway and constructed of approved fire-resistive materials. Each door panel
					 of such entrances shall be constructed to withstand a constant force of 250
					 pounds applied at right angles to, and approximately at the center of, the door
					 panel without causing the door to be displaced, break, or be permanently
					 deformed. When fireproof shaftway construction is required the door panels
					 shall be of approved 1 1/2 hour fire-resistive construction, and shall bear
					 certification to this effect from a recognized official testing laboratory.
					 Such door panels shall be self-closing and kept normally closed. When transom
					 panels are installed, they shall be of the same construction as the door
					 panels. Where biparting or vertically opening doors are permitted, such
					 entrances shall have a one hour certified fire-resistive test rating.
(4)
New doors.
New doors
					 shall be provided if interlocks cannot be fitted to existing doors or if doors
					 are in such condition as to prohibit the necessary changes or repairs being
					 made. Existing hollow metal doors of existing shaftways meeting the intent of
					 this provision may be reused upon approval by the Department.