Entries by Attorney Gordon Johnson

Man, Granddaughter Die Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning While Camping

 A man and his granddaughter died of carbon monoxide poisoning last weekend while camping out at a rodeo in Clements, Calif.  http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110920/A_NEWS/109200312/-1/a_news02 Richard Kovacs, 56, and Jordan Kovacs, 14, were both from Copperopolis. They perished last Saturday night or Sunday morning while sleeping in an area they had marked off at the end of a horse […]

Elderly Couple Die Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning After Power Outage From Irene

Unfortunately, I expected to see more of these tragic cases in the wake of Hurricane Irene, which knocked out power last weekend in a swath from North Carolina to Maine.      An elderly couple died of carbon monoxide poisoning last Tuesday in their summer home in Raymond, Maine, with the lethal gas coming from an emergency generator, according […]

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Kills Nearly 500 Annually In U.S., CDC Report Says

Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of unintentional poisoning deaths in the United States, with nearly 500 people succombing to the odorless, colorless gas each year, according to a report issued earlier this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6030a2.htm?s_cid=mm6030a2_x In a comprehensive 10-year report issued Aug. 5, the […]

Carbon Monoxide Exposure After Car Accidentally Left Running In Garage

The CDC-Center for Disease Control and Prevention recently stated in their weekly report that Carbon Monoxide (CO) poisoning is a leading cause of unintentional poisoning deaths in the United States. CO poisoning is preventable, nonetheless, CO related poisoning is responsible for approximately 15,000 emergency department visits and nearly 500 deaths annually in the United States. […]

Two Tenants Above Grocery Store Killed By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

It looks like authorities in Pennsylvania are taking a hard line with the owners of a grocery story that was using a generator indoors, emitting carbon monoxide fumes that killed two men in a second-floor apartment Friday. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/121058718.html Officials in the Delaware County Medical Examiner’s Office have ruled that the deaths of Ernesto Huerta, 57, and Stephen […]

Cape Cod Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Sends 11 To Hospital

Here is a potentially life-saving tip: Make sure your carbon monoxide detectors, as well as your smoke detectors, have batteries that are working. That might have averted this scary situation on Cape Cod. Eleven people nearly died of carbon monoxide poisoning Friday night in an incident in Nantucket, Mass., according to several press reports. href=”http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/04/16/cops_nantucket_co_poisoning_puts_11_in_hospital/?rss_id=Boston.com+–+Massachusetts+news”>http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/04/16/cops_nantucket_co_poisoning_puts_11_in_hospital/?rss_id=Boston.com+–+Massachusetts+news The […]

Two Tenants Die Of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In New Jersey As Alarms Sit In The Basement

Two recent deaths in a Jersey City, N.J., apartment building were due to carbon monoxide poisoning, according to The Jersey Journal. http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/jerseycity/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1302157523245801.xml&coll=3 This story has several particularly tragic twists. If  authorities had figured out the cause of the first death more quickly, perhaps they could have prevented the second one. And the carbon monoxide alarms that could […]