has now been forwarded to the Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office for further review and to Evergreen for corrective action.
The state used an outside forensics team to help with this investigation, which determined the leak came from the improper installation of air intake and exhaust venting for the water heater on December 4., but instead of being treated as a real CO event, investigators said those alarms were treated as a faulty detector and/or a fault of the fire alarm system.
The Texas-based forensic engineering firm, Bison Engineering, in its final report, concluded the intake and exhaust venting was not installed per installation instructions nor to National Fuel Gas Code. Physical symptoms can occur within minutes at 3,200 ppm and cause someone to lose consciousness in just 10 to 15 minutes, followed by death.Students blame Evergreen State College administration for death of 21-year-old on campus