[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 33, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 33CFR149.421]

[Page 205-206]
 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
    CHAPTER I--COAST GUARD, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 149--DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, AND EQUIPMENT--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart D--Safety Equipment
 
Sec. 149.421  Means of escape from platform.

    (a) Each platform must have at least one fixed and one unfixed means 
of escape from the highest working level to the water level with an 
entry at each working level.
    (b) Each platform with living spaces must have at least two fixed 
means of escape from the highest level with living spaces to the water 
with an entry at each level below. If the highest level of the PPC 
contains living spaces, the two fixed means of escape required by this 
paragraph satisfy the requirements in paragraph (a) of this section.
    (c) Each platform must have at least one fixed or unfixed means of 
escape for every ten persons on board the platform, including the means 
of escape required under paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section.
    (d) When two or more fixed means of escape are installed, at least 
two must be as far from each other as practicable.
    (e) Each fixed means of escape required under this section must be a 
steel ladder or steel stairway.
    (f) Each unfixed means of escape required under this section must 
be:
    (1) A portable ladder;

[[Page 206]]

    (2) A flexible ladder; or
    (3) A knotted man rope.
    (g) Two exits must be provided from each space having over 300 
square feet of floor area. Where practicable, the exits must give egress 
to different corridors, rooms, or spaces.
    (h) Exits must provide egress to the external means of escape 
required in this section. Dead end corridors may not be longer than 40 
feet.