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fire hazard as "safe" is a breach of professional and regulatory
duty.

3. THE CONFIGURATION "CATCH-22" (STAGED
ASSEMBLY) My acute acoustic trauma on January 25
occurred because the equipment was operated in a broken
state with a missing side panel, allowing raw mechanical
noise to reflect off the window directly into my left ear. This
report is now trapped in a forensic "Catch-22":

e SCENARIO A (Tested with panels ON): The employer
presented a staged environment. A "sealed" machine
does not represent the unshielded state that injured me.

e SCENARIO B (Tested with panels OFF): You have
professionally certified an unshielded, broken, and
unpermitted machine as "safe" for a classroom
environment.

4. MISREPRESENTATION OF CLINICAL TRAUMA
The employer and the Board have framed an acute physical
injury as a "subjective distraction." They have withheld the
clinical reality: 5 Emergency Room visits, a documented
10dB asymmetric hearing drop, and clinical Tonic Tensor
Tympani Syndrome (TTTS). Relying on A-weighted
averages to "smooth over" a localized trauma is scientifically
dishonest.

NOTICE OF LIABILITY: WorkSafeBC is currently using a
report based on a staged environment to deny medical care
and wages to an injured worker. Now that all parties have been
formally provided with the actual operational state (missing

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