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The facility failed to provide a one-hour fire resistance rated stair enclosure.

Observation determined the walls of the east stair enclosure stopped at the membrane ceiling and were not extended to the roof deck.

Failure to provide one-hour fire resistance rated vertical openings increases the risk of death or injury due to fire.

This deficiency affected one (1) of three (3) vertical shafts in the building.

The facility failed to ensure exit access was readily accessible at all times.

Observation determined:
1) The facility had not ensured that doors in the means of egress were not locked against egress when the building was occupied.

The stairway doors from the second floor were equipped with access-controlled magnetic locks that required a code to be entered on a key pad to release.

The deficiency affected egress from two (2) of two (2) exits from the second floor.

2) During its swing, any door in a means of egress shall leave not less than one-half of the required width of an aisle, corridor, passageway, or landing unobstructed and shall not project more than 7 inches into the required width of an aisle, corridor, passageway, or landing, when fully open. 7.2.1.4.4

Four (4) of numerous doors on the first floor opened outward into the corridor and projected more than 7 inches into the corridor when fully opened.

Failure to maintain the means of egress to be available at all times increases the risk of death or injury due to fire.


Ref: 2000 NFPA 101 Section 19.2.2.2.4, 7.2.1.6.2