egress door for electrical room

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]My question is can you have a overhead door as a means of egress from an electical room. In the event of an emergency or evacuation the proposed overhead door is the egress route. NFPA 70E 400.15 (c) (2) requires panic hardware on a door for safety issue. Is there a NEC code for this as well and if so where?
 
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I don't know that there is any code that says the door has to be on the same level as the equipment.

The intent is to allow someone to get the heck out in case that becomes necessary.

I don't think it would be evil if you had to go up a stairway to get out, but climbing a ladder would be another story.

When you say overhead, it makes me think you have to climb out. I think I would have a problem with that.
 
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The 70E Section you are citing is a direct quotation from NEC [02] Section 110.26(C)(2). It sounds as though you may have confined space and means of egress problems too. Those are OSHA rather than NEC issues.
 
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Hi Bob. I think the moderator gets the first post in the event of a tie. :D

Edit: Hey, what happened? I was after rbalex a minute ago?
Edit: And both posts were stamped 16:03.
Another conspiracy.

[ March 18, 2005, 04:13 PM: Message edited by: physis ]
 
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By an overhead door, I think you mean like a garage door that you lift up to open. 110.26(C2) is for large electrical equipment, so it depends on what physical and electrical size the equipment is.

Steve
 
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If it is over 72" wide and 1200 amps or more it must swing outward and have panic hardware. I don't know how an overhead door would satisfy this.
 
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Meshaya: Please clarify: By ?overhead door,? do you mean that the ?door? is cut into the ceiling (like a "trap door"), and that you have to climb a ladder or stairs and push upwards to get the door open? Or do you mean a ?garage door? style, that is pulled upwards by a motor or a rope, and that when the door is open you walk out (not climb out)?
 
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