California Code of Regulations
Title 8 - Industrial Relations
Division 1 - Department of Industrial Relations
Chapter 4 - Division of Industrial Safety
Subchapter 4 - Construction Safety Orders
Article 14 - Construction Hoists
Section 1604.8 - Electrical Wiring, Fittings, and Fixtures
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Wiring, Raceways, and Cables in Hoistways and Machine Rooms.
Main feeders for supplying power to the hoist may be installed inside or outside the hoistway.
Traveling cables, where used between the car and hoistway wiring, shall be Type E.O., E.T.T., S.O., or a type approved by an accepted testing laboratory.
(b) Enclosure of Live Parts on Cars and in Hoistway.
All live parts of electrical apparatus, located in or on hoist cars or in their hoistways, shall be suitably enclosed to protect against accidental contact.
The maximum circuit voltage of control or operating circuits permitted in or on hoist cars and their hoistways shall not exceed that specified in Section 1604.24(c)(1).
(c) Fittings, Fixtures, and Switches.
Where the hoistway is exposed to the weather, as in open shafts outside the structure; the electrical wiring, fittings, fixtures, and switches shall be weatherproof.
Slack rope switches, where required, lower normal-terminal and lower final-terminal hoistway limit switches, slowdown switches, and pit stop switches shall be located as far above the bottom of the pit as practicable.