The state agency that runs Rainier School, a residential campus for people with disabilities in Pierce County, “found numerous failures” in protocol that led to a client’s fall in 2024 and resulted in lifelong injuries, according to a lawsuit.
Dustin Snyder, who was reportedly a known risk for falling, lived at the habilitation center in Buckley for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities from 2005 until just after he was seriously hurt in November 2024, the legal complaint said.
In the lawsuit filed this month in Pierce County Superior Court, Snyder’s legal guardian, Lorrie Medina, alleged that the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) neglected Snyder after the fall and delayed providing him with a medical examination for nearly a week. It was later determined at a hospital that Snyder suffered three brain bleeds and two skull fractures, according to the suit…