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Yes, because shelves only support a certain weight and the whole thing can come crashing down like the World Trade Center, especially if heavier colleagues figure "if they can do it, so can I."
I think you're imagining shelves that were much less sturdy than these were. The uprights and horizontals were 3-4" steel I-beams and were bolted to threads imbeded in concrete every 5 feet.
A 500lb person wouldn't even make them budge.
That's not a guarantee things won't come down.
A fuckton of Newtons perpendicular to a support beam is different from 1k Newtons downward