Investigation report on the student death in December at Evergreen State College found that:
👉 “Alarms on the CO detectors went off during the early-morning hours of Dec. 11, 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 CO came from a significant leak from a newly installed tankless water heater in the inside the utility room of that unit.”
👉 “…a lack of training and/or understanding of the functions of the fire alarm/CO systems by Evergreen employees and residence maintenance personnel.”
Findings – Evergreen State College Carbon Monoxide Death Investigation – WSP (wa.gov)
‘Tragic yet avoidable’: WSP releases report on Evergreen student’s CO poisoning death (komonews.com)
WSP Issues Statement on Carbon Monoxide Tragedy | The Evergreen State College