Wash. Admin. Code § 296-56-60147 - Elevator doors
You must provide elevator car doors on all elevators, except on fully enclosed hoistways equipped with hoistway gates and enclosed from the top of the hoistway opening to the ceiling on the landing side.
(1) Car doors may be of solid or perforated
construction and must be capable of resisting a seventy-five pound thrust
without deflecting one-quarter inch.
(2) Car doors may be biparting or otherwise
horizontally swung provided the door swings within the elevator car.
(3) A positive locking latch device which
resists a two hundred fifty pound thrust must be provided.
(4) Interlocks or mechanical locks and
electric contacts must be provided on cars operating in open
hoistways.
Notes
Statutory Authority: RCW 49.17.040 and 49.17.050. 86-03-064 (Order 86-02), § 296-56-60147, filed 1/17/86; 85-01-022 (Order 84-24), § 296-56-60147, filed 12/11/84.
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