Julie Ord (“plaintiff’) appeals from an opinion and award of the Industrial Commission. Since plaintiff has committed numerous violations of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure, and we decline to invoke our discretionary authority under N.C. R. App. P. 2 (2006), we dismiss the appeal.
Plaintiff worked as a financial analyst for IBM Corp. (“IBM”) in April of 2000 when a flood occurred in her building. The flood occurred on a Sunday, when plaintiff was not at work. On the evening of the flood, the IBM and property management team opened doors, placed fans, and vacuumed the water. Subsequently, contractors removed all water-damaged material including but not limited to the carpet in the affected area. In addition, all employees who worked in the affected areas were relocated to other buildings.
IBM collected carpet and wallboard samples, as well as air samples, and the samples were analyzed at Research Triangle Institute. The samples from the wallboard had organisms at a level lower than the limits of detection, while samples of the carpet were at a level slightly above the limits of detection. The air samples revealed three locations with small visible colonies of fungal growth. However, only one indoor sample contained more mold-causing organisms than those detected in outdoor samples.
Plaintiff testified that she first experienced vertigo on 4 May 2000. She also experienced a number of other symptoms, including driving problems, cognitive problems, confusion, tingling in her arms and legs, congestion, nausea, diarrhea, irritability, shortness of breath, chest tightness, fever, and depression. In addition, plaintiff testified that she experienced serious memory problems.
Following a hearing, the deputy commissioner determined that plaintiff had not carried her burden to prove that she suffered an occupational injury or disease and denied her claim under the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act. Plaintiff appealed to the full commission and the commission affirmed the judgment of the deputy commissioner. From that opinion and award, entered on 25 January 2006, plaintiff appeals.
*545On appeal, plaintiff argues the commission erred in its findings of facts and conclusions of law. However, we do not reach the merits of plaintiffs argument because plaintiff has committed several major violations of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure. Without invoking Rule 2, in our discretion, we conclude that her appeal should be dismissed.
The Rules of Appellate Procedure set forth what is required in an appellant’s brief. The rules provide that the brief must contain:
(6) An argument, to contain the contentions of the appellant with respect to each question presented. Each question shall be separately stated. Immediately following each question shall be a reference to the assignments of error pertinent to the question, identified by their numbers and by the pages at which they appear in the printed record on appeal. Assignments of error not set out in the appellant’s brief, or in support of which no reason or argument is stated or authority cited, will be taken as abandoned.
N.C. R. App. P. 28(b)(6) (2005) (emphasis supplied).
Here, plaintiff assigns error to numerous findings and conclusions, but fails to argue specific findings and conclusions.. She also fails to cite any authority in support of her arguments. In addition, plaintiff has failed to reference the assignments of error pertinent to each question presented, and has failed to identify the page numbers in the record where such assignments appear. Finally, plaintiff failed to include a statement of grounds for appellate review in her brief, as required by N.C. R. App. P. 28(b)(4) (2005) (“Such statement shall include citation of the statute or statutes permitting appellate review.”).-
“[T]he Rules of Appellate Procedure must be consistently applied; otherwise, the Rules become meaningless, and an appellee is left without notice of the basis upon which an appellate court might rule.” Viar v. N.C. DOT, 359 N.C. 400, 402, 610 S.E.2d 360, 361 (2005). We are mindful that our Supreme Court, in State v. Hart, 361 N.C. 309, - S.E.2d - (2007) recently noted that we may use N.C. R. App. P. 2 to suspend the rules in order to prevent “manifest injustice.” However, we do not agree with the concurring opinion that the rules should be suspended in this case since manifest injustice will not result in our decision to dismiss the appeal. The concurring opinion concedes that if we chose to invoke Rule 2 and suspend the rules, the *546outcome would be no different. Further, the rule violations are so serious as to fundamentally frustrate appellate review. In light of this, we conclude plaintiffs appeal should be dismissed.
Dismissed.
Judge TYSON concurs.
Judge WYNN concurs in a separate opinion.