A fresh investigation of Colorado state Sen. Randy Baumgardner, who survived an earlier attempt to oust him from the legislature, finds he created “an intimidating, offensive, and hostile work environment” for several Senate staffers, according to a news report.

Bente Birkeland with Greeley public radio outlet KUNC reports Monday on an independent probe by Littleton Alternative Dispute Resolution Inc. of Baumgardner.

The latest investigation looked into allegations by eight people accusing the Hot Sulphur Springs Republican of sexual harassment and other inappropriate behavior.

“I find Baumgardner engages in an unsettling pattern of inappropriate and offensive behavior toward women,” says one investigator in the LADR report, as quoted by KUNC.

The report refers to allegations that Barmgardner touched women’s breasts while embracing them.

In a separate complaint the ADR report finds “credible,” Baumgardner was accused of making a young former intern “uncomfortable and uneasy” in a pair of alleged encounters.

News of the report comes three weeks after the Colorado Senate tied 17-17 on a Democratic resolution to expel Baumgardner over a different allegation, falling seven votes short of the two-thirds needed to remove him from office.

In that case, the lawmaker was accused by a former legislative aide who said he “grabbed and slapped her buttocks on four separate occasions” during the legislative session two years ago. Baumgardner denied that allegation.

According to KUNC, the latest report – dated March 30, a few days before the expulsion vote – was submitted to Senate Secretary Effie Ameen, who had commissioned the probe, but the new report’s findings were not considered in the expulsion vote. The LADR report was released to the accusers last Thursday, KUNC says.

The report says Baumgardner initially refused to be interviewed on the new allegations, but then he denied the allegations.

LADR – associated with the Littleton law firm of Miller & Steiert PC – provides fact-finding services, mediation, workplace dispute resolution and other services.

The firm was brought in to look into the latest allegations against Baumgardner after some Republicans were said to have voiced dissatisfaction with the previous work by the Employers Council, a membership professional services agency, in looking into earlier harassment allegations.