{"id":"96255a51-f38a-47bf-a665-932ab72663ea","task":"Confirm the private residence elevator door-gap safety requirement in ASME A17.1 Section 5.3 and check for related CPSC recalls","domain":"ASME A17.1 §5.3 / CPSC — Private Residence Elevator Door Gap","steps":["Confirm the requirement, present from the 2016 edition onward, that the space between a closed hoistway landing door and the car gate/door must reject a 4-inch-diameter ball at all points, addressing a documented child entrapment hazard","Confirm the related sill-to-door-edge distance limit (no more than 3/4 inch) from the same safety-update context","Check the equipment's original install/edition-compliance date against the jurisdiction's adopted A17.1 edition to see whether the gap requirement applies retroactively there (via a locally adopted retrofit rule) or only to new installations","Search the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission's own recall database (cpsc.gov) directly for the specific manufacturer/model in question rather than relying on secondary industry summaries, since recall scope and remedy (e.g., space guards) are manufacturer- and model-specific","Where a gap-guard retrofit is warranted, confirm with a licensed residential elevator contractor that the proposed fix meets the current code's ball-rejection and sill-distance criteria"],"gotchas":["The 4-inch-ball and 3/4-inch sill rules are recent (2016-edition-and-later) — many older private residence elevators predate them and may need a retrofit if the local AHJ has made the requirement retroactive","CPSC recall details (models, dates, remedy) must be confirmed directly on cpsc.gov for the specific product — do not state a recall's scope from memory or a single blog reference","A17.1 Section 5.3 applies to private residence elevators specifically, which have different requirements than commercial passenger elevators — don't apply commercial-elevator assumptions to a residential unit"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-13T22:29:41.683Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/96255a51-f38a-47bf-a665-932ab72663ea"}