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levels which act as fire baffles to trap the heat and activate
the sprinkler heads.
The Reserve Facility was designed, and is used, for the
storage and retrieval of merchandise in boxes. Merchandise
arrives at petitioner's distribution center at the Receiving
Building adjacent to the Reserve Facility. The merchandise is
unloaded at the receiving staging area of the Receiving Building
where petitioner's employees sort the boxes according to size.
All boxes are tagged with a bar code for identification of the
inventory therein and are banded and sent by conveyor to a pallet
loading station in the 1979 Shipping Building. There, workers
load the boxes onto pallets where they are delivered to the
Reserve Facility or to other locations by forklift operators.
The boxes that are stored in the Reserve Facility are
standard-sized boxes holding reserve merchandise inventory that
is not required in petitioner's daily order picking, packing, and
shipment operation. The boxes are stored in the Reserve Facility
on the shelves of the storage rack system. Pallets holding boxes
to be stored in the Reserve Facility are placed on "loading"
conveyors located at the end of every other rack aisle on the
Reserve Facility's mezzanine. Each pallet is then loaded by a
transtacker operator onto the platform of a transtacker using a
mechanical device that is built into the transtacker.
To store boxes on the Reserve Facility's shelves, the
transtacker operator visually searches the racks for empty
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