GENERAL ORDERS ON FIRE PREVENTION

Order 6050. Housekeeping. No combustible waste, rubbish or refuse shall be placed, kept or stored in any air, elevator or stair shaft, in closets or dark out-of-the-way places, around electric motors or machinery, or against steampipes, or within 10 feet from any stove, boiler or furnace, or in any place where oils are used or stored.

All roofs shall be kept free from sawdust, shavings, and all other combustible waste and rubbish.

Waste paper shall be baled whenever sufficient for one or more bales, or shall be stored in an isolated building or in a metal or metal-lined room, vault or bin metal-lined door, or in a metal or metal-lined box, with self-closing cover.

Excelsior, hay, straw or other packing materials shall be stored as above provided, or destroyed.

No person or persons shall allow to remain longer than 36 hours or over one night, in any alley, on any sidewalk, or on any premises within 25 feet from any building, any waste paper, excelsior, hay, straw, shavings, rubbish, trash or other like combustible materials, or more than 6 empty boxes or barrels.

No hay, or straw shall be kept or stored either loose or in stacks, in the open, within a distance of 40 feet from any chimney or smokestack.

Shavings or other combustible absorbents shall not be used in cuspidors or for absorbing any oil, nor shall any wooden box or receptacle be used as cuspidor.

No person shall place or store ashes in any wooden box, barrel or container or upon any wooden floor or surface or against any wooden wall, partition, fence, post or in contact with any other woodwork. No rubbish fire shall be built within 30 feet from any building, lumber, woodpile or wooden fence, in the open, or on a windy day. Rubbish may be burned, not nearer than 15 feet to buildings, in a substantial burner built of boiler iron or of brick, well covered or screened to prevent the escape of sparks and burning embers. Such burner must be approved by the chief of the fire department, where there is one, otherwise by the Industrial commission.

Cloth or paper cuttings shall be cleaned up and removed from the building at the close of each day's work, or shall be stored, in a metal or metal-lined box, with cover, or in a fireproof vault or room.

Order 6055. Old Buildings. Any building, which by reason of missing, rotten or punky shingles on the roof, or other defects in the roof, or loose, missing and rotten siding, or needless wall openings, broken plastering, holes in floors, ceilings or partitions, or cracked or defective chimneys, or for any other cause is especially liable to fire, and which is so located as to endanger other buildings or property, shall be repaired forthwith, and put in safe and sound condition, or shall be torn down and the materials removed, but no such repairs shall be made in kind, form, manner or extent not authorized by local ordinance, nor shall such repairs be made when a building from any cause, is damaged to an extent of more than 50% of its sound value, but such buildings shall be torn down and the materials removed.

Order 6060. Oily Substances, Oily Waste. Oily waste and oily rags, when not in actual use, during the day, shall be kept in approved, standard, self-closing metal waste cans, set firmly on threeinch legs. One such waste can shall be installed for every 2,500 feet of floor area, on each floor, where oily waste or oily rags are used. The contents of all such waste cans shall be destroyed, burned or removed from the building at the close of each day's work.

Order 6061. Olly Clothing. Oily or greasy clothing shall not be allowed to remain on wooden floors or work benches, nor placed In wooden lockers, or hung against wooden walls or partitions.

Order 6062. Oil Drip Pans. Metal drip pans shall be placed under all oil barrels resting on wooden floors, platforms or supports, and under all machines using oil, to catch the oil drippings, and oily metal borings and shavings. The contents of such drip pans shall be burned or removed from the building each day.

When a printing press or other oil-bearing machine is placed on a combustible floor, such floor shall be covered with substantial sheet metal.

All combustible floors and platforms shall be kept free of oils, oil drippings and oily waste and rags.

Metal oil drip cups shall be placed under all shaft bearings, including elevator machinery, suspended from the ceilings.

Order 6063. Sweeping Compounds. Sweeping compounds within buildings shall be kept and stored in covered metal drums or containers.

Sweepings shall be immediately burned or deposited in approved metal receptacles.

Order 6066. Gasoline Engines. All stationary gasoline engines hereafter installed shall be placed upon incombustible floors, platforms or supports.

Existing installations of such engines on wooden floors are permitted to remain, provided the floor is protected with metal.

The gasoline engine room shall be kept free from dust, waste and combustible materials, needless grease or oil, and shall be lighted by incandescent electric lights, where electricity is available. No open flame or heat shall be permitted in such room.

The exhaust pipe of such engines shall extend to the outside, above the roof, if practicable, and in no case shall it exhaust within 6 feet from any building.

Where such exhaust pipe passes through any combustible wail, partition, ceiling or floor, a clearance of not less than 2 inches shall be provided around the pipe, and the exposed woodwork shall be protected by metal, or such pipe may run through a ventilated double metal thimble, having an air space of not less than 1 inch between the inner and outer rings of such thimble. Such exhaust pipes shall not be closer than 6 inches to any unprotected combustible wall, partition or wood work.

Order 6070. Glue Pots And Soldering Furnaces. All glue pots and soldering furnaces, when in use, shall rest on an incombustible base, and there shall be no unprotected woodwork within 12 inches from the same.

Wooden work benches may be used as a base for the same, only when covered with metal over inch sheet asbestos, to a distance of not less than 18 inches beyond the pot or furnace on all sides.

Order 6075. Gasoline, Naphtha, Benzine. No gasoline, naphtha, benzine, benzol, or compounds thereof, or powder or dynamite, except in closed packages or containers, shall be sold or handled in the nighttime, except when incandescent, electric lights are used.

All containers of gasoline, naphtha, benzine or benzol or other compounds in quantities of more than one quart and not more than 5 gallons shall be kept stored in liquid tight metal cans, painted vermillion red and marked with the name of the oil contained in each.

All gasoline, naphtha or benzine, in excess of five gallons shall be stored in an approved underground tank, buried not less than two feet, distant at least ten feet from any basement wall, and equipped with an approved pump, or in a substantial, metal storage tank, housed in a separate building of fireproof construction, ventilated at top and bottom, and located at least 25 feet from any other building. When sufficient outside space is not available, approved underground tanks may be installed not less than three feet below the basement floor, and shall be equipped with an approved pump.

Nothing contained in the above regulations shall prevent the keeping of not more than 25 gallons of gasoline in automobiles or other machines using gasoline, confined in a tank, free from leak, securely capped, and protected by all necessary safety appliances, nor the use of one approved, portable, wheeled tank, not exceeding 60 gallons capacity, in each public garage, to be used for transfering gasoline from the underground storage tank.

Order 6080. Calcium Carbide. Calcium carbide shall be stored in covered, watertight metal cans, outside of the main building in an isolated, well ventilated building, under lock and key, and such carbide cans shall be raised above the floor not less than 2 inches to permit the free circulation of air. Not more than one such can shall be opened at one time, or until such can is used up.

Order 6090. Explosives, Gunpowder. Not more than 50 pounds of gunpowder shall be kept on hand or stored in or on any premises within the corporate limits of any city or village.

Such powder shall be kept in closed metal cannisters of not more than 121⁄2 pounds capacity each, and shall be stored away from open light or heat, in a room or place approved by the Chief of the Fire Department.

Order 6091. Nitroglycerine. No nitroglycerine or guncotton shall be kept on hand or stored within the corporate limits of any city or village.

• Order 6092.

Dynamite and Giant Powder. Not more than 25 pounds of dynamite or giant powder shall be kept on hand or stored in, or on any premises within the corporate limits of any city or village, and such limited quantity shall be kept in an iron box or a strong iron covered box, under lock, and housed in some outbuilding approved by the chief of the fire department.

All dynamite and giant powder in excess of the above mentioned quantities shall be kept and stored outside the city or village limits, in specially constructed magazines, located not less than 500 feet from any other building.

Order 6093. Blasting Caps. All blasting caps shall be kept and stored in a fireproof and bulletproof receptacle, and never housed in the same room where any dynamite is stored.

Order 6095. Fireworks. No firecrackers, rockets, torpedoes. Roman candles, bombs or other fireworks, and no pistols, cannons, explosive canes, blank cartridges, or other similar appliances or displays shall be stored in a place nearer than 200 feet from a neighboring building, excepting wholesale storage in original packages. Such fireworks, appliances, or displays, except rockets and Roman candles, shall not be discharged, fired or used within 200 feet from. any building. No rockets or Roman candies shall be discharged, within 500 feet from any building. This order shall not apply to fireworks displays made under the direction of town or municipal authorities, provided the same do not violate the provisions of Section 4389f of the statutes, and provided further that no fire balloons shall be stored or used under any circumstances.

Order 6120. Dry Cleaning Establishments. All gasoline, naphtha benzine or compounds thereof, handled or used in dry cleaning shall be used in the open air, or in a separate well-ventilated building, or section of a building, cut off from all other parts of the building by a standard fire wall, the door, if any, to be an approved fire door, or in a well-ventilated room constructed of incombustible materials, and in no case shall such volatile liquids be used for dry cleaning in any frame building, within 50 feet from the building or premises of another. No fires or open lights shall be permitted in any room where such volatile liquids are used, except approved vapor-proof electric incandescent lights.

Order 6130. Laundry Drying Rooms. This order shall apply to drying rooms in hotels and places of detention, schools, and apartment houses accommodating more than six families, as well as in factories and other places of employment.

In any laundry drying room constructed of wood, the inside surface of all walls, partitions, ceilings, doors and floors shall be covered with sheet asbestos, not less than 1% inch thick, and over this a sheet of metal not less than No. 26 gauge. The metal shall be nailed in place with locked joints covering the nail heads.

All vent pipes leading from such drying rooms shall be wrapped the full length with sheet or corrugated asbestos and no part of such vent shall be nearer than 6 inches to any unprotected woodwork.

All such drying rooms shall be thoroughly cleaned out at least once each week, and all lint and dust removed.

All steam and other heating pipes in drying rooms shall be covered with wire screen of a mesh not exceeding 1⁄2 inch placed at a distance of not less than 2 inches. Such screens shall be removable for the purpose of cleaning up the dust and lint.

No kerosene lamps, candles or open gas lights shall be used in any drying room.

No combustible materials of any kind except clothes and clothing to be dried, shall be placed or stored in any drying room.

No clothing in any drying room shall be in contact with any heating or lighting apparatus or devices.

Order 6140. Smokehouse. Every building used for smoking meats, and located within a distance of 25 feet from any other building, shall have walls of brick, stone or concrete, not less than 8 inches thick, an incombustible floor and roof, and an iron door overlapping the door opening at least one inch at the top and on both sides with hinges and hasp embedded in the wall, and shall have a brick or metal vent or smoke flue to the outside, except as follows:

Small smokehouses for retail meat markets may be located in the basement or on the main floor of the building, if constructed of 8 inch brick wall or its equivalent, with roof of brick arch, tile or conciete, the flue to have 6 inch brick walls, the foundation and floor to be of incombustible materials, not less than 3 inches thick. If such smokehouse is placed on any wooden floor. then the smokehouse floor shall be built of incombustible material at least 5 inches thick, and shall have air spaces running horizontally through the same. The floor under the same shall be supported to safely carry such additional load.

Order 6150. Picker Rooms. Cotton, moss, hair, excelsior and other pickers and shredders shall be housed and operated in an isolated building, or in a room with fire-resisting ceiling, walls and floor, with self-closing, metal-clad doors.

A window or other outside ventilation shall be provided.

Such rooms shall be thoroughly cleaned up at the close of each day's work.

Where steam is available, a live steam jet shall be installed in each such room, and an approved chemical fire extinguisher shall be kept on the outside of the door leading to such room.

REFRIGERATING PLANT CODE

Order 4590-When Effective. These orders shall take effect at once on all refrigerating plants installed after September 1, 1918. All plants heretofore installed shall be made to comply with these orders not later than February 1, 1919, except that where an especially dangerous condition exists the Industrial Commission may require compliance at once.

Order 4501-Application Required. After September 11, 1918, no refrigerating plant shall be installed until the manufacturer shall have filled out and sent to the Industrial Commission an application on the blank form furnished by the commission.

Order 4592—Refrigerating Machine Defined. A refrigerating machine is any device which is designed or used for raising the pressure of any refrigerating agent by mechanical compression, and will be considered to be that portion of the apparatus beginning at the gas intake connection and extending as far as the first stop valve on the discharge pipe.

Order 4503-Safety Valve Defined. A safety valve is an approved sealed mechanical device which will automatically prevent a pressure in excess of these orders, and which operates by allowing the free escape of the released element as outlined in Orders 45044506.

Order 4504-Safety Appliances. Safety appliances shall be constructed of materials which are not likely to be corroded by either the gases or the liquids with which they may come in contact.

Order 4505-Liquid Receiver. Each liquid receiver for machines exceeding three tons capacity shall be equipped with a safety valve not less than 1⁄2 inch in diameter.