* February 2: Filed formal WorkSafeBC claim #42647461. First workplace injury claim in
25-year career.

* March 13: Received demotion letter from Austin Puder — the same manager who
dismissed my injury on January 27 and told me to take it to WorkSafe.

THE CRITICAL ISSUE — EMPLOYER KNOWLEDGE

Austin Puder had direct, personal, first-hand knowledge of my workplace ear injury on
January 27, 2026.

He was told by me, in person, with a union representative present, that | was experiencing
stabbing ear pain as a direct result of my exposure at Workstation 3. He dismissed that injury as
impossible based on average sound level measurements. He closed the safety concern. He
directed me to WorkSafeBC rather than providing any internal accommodation or escalation.

Austin Puder is the Senior Manager who subsequently:

* Commissioned or approved: The BCRTC internal noise investigation that was
provided to Arcose Consulting

* Did not disclose: My reported injury, my clinical symptoms, or my WorkSafeBC claim to
Arcose Consulting when they were commissioned to conduct the noise survey

* Signed: The adverse employment action letter of March 13, 2026, removing me from the
Control Operator training program

The Arcose noise survey report, dated March 11, 2026, references only my January 22 MyHSE
safety concern. It does not reference my January 29 Acoustic Trauma Brief. It does not
reference my audiogram. It does not reference my clinical diagnosis of Tonic Tensor Tympani
Syndrome. It characterizes my concern as noise that may be ‘subjectively distracting.’

Austin Puder knew on January 27 that this was not a distraction. He was told it was an injury. He
chose not to pass that information to Arcose. As a result, Arcose conducted a standard
broadband noise survey rather than a frequency-specific clinical exposure assessment. The
report they produced does not address the injury | reported.

THE WORKSAFEBC INVESTIGATOR — OMISSION OF
INJURY CONTEXT

The WorkSafeBC Prevention Services inspection report #202618842990A, conducted by Pierce
Ficzycz on February 25, 2026, references my workplace noise concern but does not address
my clinical injury. This investigator had access to my January 29 Acoustic Trauma Brief, which
was filed with WorkSafeBC as part of my unsafe workplace report.

The investigator was advised of fire code and building permit violations during our February 19,
2026 call. His response was to advise me to report those violations to the City of Burnaby
independently — which | did, on March 7, 2026, resulting in the City of Burnaby forwarding my
complaint to their Building Inspections Supervisor for review.