THE PANG FORMULA: FROM TRAUMA TO THE BEAST A Unified Account of Acoustic Injury, Institutional Data Sanitization, and the Engineering of an Investigative Response Worker: Mark Thomas Holand WorkSafeBC Claim: 42647461 FIPPA Request: WCB-2026-0484 CHCPBC Professional Conduct: Case ID 2026-057 OIPC Review Filed: May 20, 2026 Otolaryngologist Consultation: May 27, 2026 Date: May 21, 2026 PREFACE: WHY THIS DOCUMENT EXISTS This is not a standard workers' compensation brief. A standard brief describes what happened and asks for relief. This document does that too—but it also explains how the response to institutional failure was engineered. The worker at the centre of this account is a 25-year heavy industry veteran: tower rigger, CN Rail mainline maintainer, BCRTC electronics technician, and Control Operator trainee. He has worked through blizzards, 5-hour rescues, and split fingertips without filing a single sick day. January 26, 2026, was his first. It was also the day that an administrative system, designed to protect injured workers, began producing a denial that this document will dismantle. What emerged from that process was not just a legal case. It was a forensic investigation. And the investigation produced two parallel artifacts: a legal evidentiary record documenting institutional data manipulation, and a piece of software—The Evidence Beast—built specifically to ensure that data could never be lost, decoupled, or sanitized again. This document presents both. They are not separate stories. They are the same story.