43 P.S. § 451 Rate and Time of Decompression

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 43 P.S. § 451

No person shall be permitted to pass from any tunnel, caisson, compartment, or place where he has been employed in compressed air to atmosphere or normal pressure, without passing through an intermediate lock or stage of decompression. When the employe is passing from a tunnel to atmosphere of normal pressure, the rate of decompression shall be three pounds every two minutes, except when the air pressure in the tunnel exceeds thirty-six pounds, in which case the rate of decompression shall be one pound every minute. When the employe is passing from a caisson, compartment, or place to atmosphere of normal pressure, the time of decompression shall be as follows:

When the pressure in a caisson, compartment, or place exceeds normal, but does not exceed ten pounds, time of decompression one minute.

When the pressure in a caisson, compartment, or place exceeds ten but does not exceed fifteen pounds, time of decompression two minutes.