It’s summer, steaming and people are heading to lakes to go boating and cool off. In other words, it’s the season for carbon monoxide poisoning. The exhaust from a boat engine and from on-board generator this weekend killed one man, and sickened others, in two separate incidents in the boiling hot Southwest. On Saturday at […]
Why don’t folks just buy carbon monoxide detectors? An elderly couple in Overisel Township, Mich., was likely saved from death by carbon monoxide poisoning Wednesday by carpet installers, according to the Holland Sentinel. The residents didn’t have a working carbon monoxide detector. http://www.hollandsentinel.com/newsnow/x208439622/Carpet-workers-save-couple-from-carbon-monoxide-poisoning#axzz2XOKIg54M Four people — the two residents of the house and two workers […]
I’ve done several blogs on the lessons to be learned, and actions that should be taken, after three guests perished from carbon monoxide poisoning in a Best Western Hotel in Boone, N.C. To refresh your memory, an elderly couple — Daryl Jenkins, 72, and his wife Shirley, 72 — were found dead in hotel room […]
By Attorney Gordon Johnson Call me at 800-992-9447 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/ Carbon monoxide poisoning has ruined another summer weekend, this time at the Travel Lodge Hotel in Lake Delton, Wisconsin. Carbon monoxide was discovered at the hotel when an employee at the hotel was taken ill. At the hospital, it was determined that carbon monoxide was the […]
By Attorney Gordon Johnson Call me at 800-992-9447 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/ In the wake of the carbon monoxide deaths at the Best Western in Boone, North Carolina, the concern should not be just for those who died, but for anyone who was in that hotel, not just on June 8, 2013, but on the day of the […]
By Attorney Gordon Johnson Call me at 800-992-9447 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/ The ironies of two separate fatal carbon monoxide catastrophes occurring within one room in the Best Western Inn in Boone, North Carolina are numerous. However, at the core of this debate should be the monitoring of such properties, by the national chains that put their brands […]
By Attorney Gordon Johnson Call me at 800-992-9447 https://carbonmonoxide-poisoning.com/ NBC News Tuesday did a report about the carbon monoxide case that I just blogged about: three deaths that took place in the same room in a Best Western hotel in Boone, N.C. The point of the report, and it’s one I should have made, is […]
More than two dozen workers and one firefighter were sent to the hospital for treatment Monday after a carbon monoxide leak at a tortilla chip factory in North Carolina, according to the Gaston Gazette. http://www.gastongazette.com/spotlight/27-workers-1-firefighter-checked-for-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-at-plant-1.156841 The cause of the apparent leak at the R.W. Garcia plant in Lincolnton was under investigation. Workers at the facility […]
You run a hotel where an elderly married couple died several months ago, and toxicology reports are still pending on their deaths. But carbon monoxide poisoning is suspected. Yet you rent out that same room where they died, and an 11-year-old dies there this weekend. You can’t make this stuff up. In Boone, N.C., Jeffrey […]
More than two dozen people were evacuated from an apartment complex in a suburb of Syracuse, N.Y., Sunday, due to a carbon monoxide leak, according to CNYCentral.com. At least a handful of people were hospitalized, the website reported, adding that it was the second such leak in the past three days. http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=907579#.UbVNGdh9tvR The incident happened […]