The 10-year-old girl in the Linden, NJ carbon monoxide poisoning tragedy, Emike Asekomhe, is still in “extremely critical condition” at Newark Beth Israel Hospital. Her 9-year-old brother died after both were found unconscious by their mother at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 3rd. The mother has stayed by the girl’s side in the hospital. The […]
Linden, New Jersey Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Leaves One Child Dead Attorney Gordon Johnson 800-992-9447 A young boy is dead and his sister is in critical condition after the Linden, New Jersey carbon monoxide poisoning tragedy. While a carbon monoxide detector was installed in the home, it didn’t warn the family. The 9-year-old boy was pronounced dead shortly […]
Gordon S. Johnson, Jr. 800-992-9447 Last week I posted three blogs about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning from portable electrical generators. It happened again March 2, 2016. Five people were taken to the hospital as a result of running an electrical generator inside a home in Waterloo, Iowa. See http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Five-Hospitalized-for-Carbon-Monoxide-Poisoning-in-Waterloo-370896931.html The article doesn’t say […]
So much of our time these days is spent on helping the survivors of school carbon monoxide poisonings, that when a story comes across the internet about one of the survivors of such an event, we notice. In November of 2013, the Montezuma Creek Elementary school was involved in a mass carbon monoxide poisoning. One […]
Gordon S. Johnson, Jr. 800-992-9447 In yesterdays blog, I called for the end of manufacturing of portable electric generators that did not meet the state of the art capacity to eliminate 99% of carbon monoxide emissions. Click here for yesterday’s blog. In that blog I advocated that it was time to use the provisions of strict […]
By Gordon S. Johnson, Jr. 800-992-9447 My father designed portable generators for his entire career. After he retired, he served as the executive director of the national trade association for the manufacturer’s of portable generators for another 15 years. I learned about carbon monoxide from my father, probably before I was 10. When I was […]
By Gordon S. Johnson, Jr. 800-992-9447 It is the time of year when almost everyday there is a story in the news media about carbon monoxide poisoning and too often death. Today’s tragedy happened in Jefferson Township, Michigan where a family was poisoned with one death. Cass County Michigan Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Fortunately, one family member […]
Once again undetected Carbon Monoxide could have severely injured unsuspecting people. Last night around 9:00pm an apartment building was evacuated in DePere Wisconsin. The fire department was called in as some of the residents were experiencing symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning. It turns out that the levels of carbon monoxide rose to over 300 parts […]
Seven people were taken to the hospital Wednesday night for carbon monoxide poisoning. This happened at a condominium complex in Seattle, where the CO was notice the smell of exhaust and alerted authorities. Two out the seven show significant impairment from the exposure and were being treated with hyperbaric oxygen treatment. These two individuals are […]
A new study has discovered a pretty disturbing, deadly fact: The lethal gas carbon monoxide can pass through gypsum wallboard, better known as drywall. Simply put, your home’s own walls won’t protect you from the poisonous gas that could filter in from a neighbor’s apartment. That’s the topic of a story Forbes published Tuesday headlined […]