I once worked with a court clerk in New Mexico where the files stored on the second floor of the courthouse weighed so much that they had to put steel supports in the courtroom below to keep the ceiling from falling down. Folks don't realize how heavy paper can be.
Ginny Jones
(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
Records Manager
Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
Newport News, VA
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Subject: [RM] VA office stacked 37,000 files on cabinets after running out of storage
VA office stacked 37,000 files on cabinets after running out of storage,
By Rebecca Ruiz, NBC News
"At the VA's Winston-Salem Regional Office in North Carolina, an
estimated 37,000 claims folders had been stored on top of file cabinets,
according to the Inspector General's report
<http://www.va.gov/oig/pubs/VAOIG-12-00244-241.pdf> released last week.
Those piles had been stacked two feet high and two rows deep. The file
cabinets were so close to each other that drawers could not be opened
completely. More files had been stored in boxes on the floor and stacked
along the wall.
A load-bearing study found that the weight of the files exceeded the
floor's capacity by 39 pounds per square foot.
"The excess weight of the stored files has the potential to compromise
the structural integrity of the sixth floor of the facility," said the
Inspector General report. "We noticed floors bowing under the excess
weight to the extent that the tops of file cabinets were noticeably
unlevel throughout the storage area."
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/14/13279254-va-office-stacked-37
000-files-on-cabinets-after-running-out-of-storage?lite
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