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towel category, were dyed and placed in service in a different
towel category.
Petitioner provided mats that were either rubber-backed or
cotton. On several occasions, mats were withdrawn from service
after a couple of months for defects in manufacture such as side
seam tears that made the mats unsafe and fibers from the mats
that shed onto customers’ floors.
Garments Placed in Service
Petitioner’s policy was to place a tag inside each garment
that it manufactured. The information provided on the tag
included petitioner’s name and logo, the fabric from which the
garment was made, and the month and year that the garment was
manufactured.
The placing of garments and dust control items in service
was a common and frequent event in petitioner’s business. At the
time that a garment was placed in service, petitioner’s policy
was to insert another tag inside the garment that identified the
month and year that the garment was placed in service, the
customer number, the employee number of the person who was to
wear the garment, and the truck delivery route. Petitioner began
using bar code tags on some of its clean room garments during
either 1992 or 1993 and on some of its industrial garments during
late 1997. If a prior tag fell off, was illegible from wear and
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