Name: Power-related equipment failure floods the new BIRHC facility, July 12, 2004
Start: 2004-07-12
End: 2004-07-12
Location: Beaver Island

Event

Date: 2004-07-12
Kind: Accident
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcareinfrastructureemergency-managementconstructiontechnology
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

After a July 12 power outage, a fan-coil unit at the new Beaver Island Rural Health Center failed to reset, allowing frost and then water to damage the building’s interior. The report says no medical records were endangered and describes proposed warning and reset controls.

Evidence limits

The report is a facility incident account and does not establish the final insurance settlement or whether every proposed modification was installed.

Sources

Beaver Beacon, September 2004, "A Disheartening Flood."
Reports a July 12 interior flood at the new BIRHC after a power outage disabled a fan-coil unit, damaging carpet and doors, and describes proposed controls and an insurance claim. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2004-09_Beaver-Beacon
Beaver Beacon, September 2004, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held issue scan confirms the facility incident report.
data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2004-09_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Power-related equipment failure floods the new BIRHC facility, July 12, 2004”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-birhc-flood-july-12-2004/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, September 2004, "A Disheartening Flood." (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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