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At our site I'm dealing with personnel wanting to park small vehicles (Gem carts and forklifts) inside the building.
I know this is clearly not allowed in an egress corridor (where it was) but I'm having trouble finding parts of the code addressing storage in mechanical rooms or similar space. I know NFPA 101 has rules for high hazard contents but not sure if I can make that argument for the vehicles. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance. Submitted anonymously and posted for discussion. Discuss This | Submit Your Question | Subscribe
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Jonathan Sullivan
10/1/2020 10:07:56 am
How are the vehicles powered?
Jonathan Sullivan
10/1/2020 10:13:12 am
I ask because IFC 315.3.3 prevents combustible storage in these types of rooms.
Daniel Garcia
10/1/2020 12:09:16 pm
Electric (cart) and lpg (forklift)
Daniel Garcia
10/1/2020 01:30:18 pm
Jonathan - IFC 2015 version is adopted. I haven't seen anything saying it's ok to store this type of equipment in a non-warehouse location but just looking for the "smoking gun" to show the people who want to do this. I may have to settle for the code excerpt you mentioned.
Jonathan Sullivan
10/2/2020 04:10:43 pm
Daniel -
DS
10/1/2020 11:03:37 am
NFPA 505 via NFPA 1:10.17 & 34.6.
Daniel Garcia
10/1/2020 12:41:17 pm
Thanks. So I suppose industrial trucks also can apply for a forklift? I did a word search for forklift in the document but nothing came up in the code. I'm also thinking a small person only (non-industrial) mobile vehicle like a Gem cart would not meet the definition of an industrial truck?
DS
10/1/2020 01:36:05 pm
The definitions has lpg powered vehilces and E for electric powered vehicles.
DS
10/1/2020 01:40:24 pm
forklifts are covered in the standard.
Michael Major
10/1/2020 02:36:50 pm
Also IFC 309 on industrial powered trucks and carts is a great section for fire safety requirements.
Bruce Verhei
11/2/2020 02:44:37 pm
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