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Building. Some of the conveyors rest on and are partially
supported by the mezzanine floor.
The ground-level racks, supporting columns, and stairways of
the Mezzanine System are joined to the floor of the 1986 Shipping
Building by bolts. Except for certain utility and flooring
connections, the sides of the Mezzanine System are not attached
to the 1986 Shipping Building. Instead, diagonal bracing is used
to provide the required lateral support. Consequently, the
Mezzanine System does not rely on the 1986 Shipping Building
structure (other than the floor) for support, nor does it provide
support for the 1986 Shipping Building. Use of this integrated
storage and structural support system for the mezzanine floor
level offers petitioner cost savings in reduced structural steel,
reduced labor costs, and increased storage efficiencies.
The Mezzanine System is used to store merchandise for ready
access and individual order picking in petitioner's distribution
center. In the order picking process, petitioner's employees
collect or "pick" individual items of merchandise from
merchandise stored on shelves in order to fill a specific
customer order. Merchandise is brought from other areas of
petitioner's distribution center by forklift operators where
pallets are either left on the first floor of the 1986 Shipping
Building or sent up to a staging area on the mezzanine floor.
Workers unload the pallets into carts and manually distribute the
goods to specific locations on the Mezzanine's storage shelving.
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