Contact Us Warehouse Break Down Parts are shipped to the warehouse in large boxes. Employees remove the top or sides from the boxes and must reach down into them to remove inventory items. After inventory items are removed they are placed on a variety of carts to be stocked into the appropriate warehouse bins.
Employees appear to stand for the duration of the task and perform the task for a full shift.
The rate calculated from the video segment submitted for analysis, in which the female employee is removing parts from the box, is approximately 4 to 5 items transferred from the shipping container and placed on the stock carts per minute. This transfer rate requires deep torso flexions at a rate of about 7 per minute. The frequency for the male employees performing this task could not be accurately assessed but it appears that they probably remove items at about the same pace or a little slower. A rate of about 5 torso flexions per minute was estimated. Torso flexions are required to lift items from the shipping box, to deposit items onto the lower shelf of transport carts, or to place removed items onto the floor for further sorting.