Entries by Attorney Gordon Johnson

Landlord Set To Stand Trial On Criminal Charges In The Carbon Monoxide Deaths Of Three Tenants

 In an unusual case, a landlord in Long Island, N.Y., is about to stand trial for criminally negligent homicide in the deaths of three tenants who succumbed to carbon monoxide poisoning.   http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/landlord-charged-in-deaths-may-have-to-defend-himself-1.1989666  It’s not every day that a prosecutor files criminal charges in a case of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning,  but that’s what happened in Long Island, where Wilson Milford, […]

June 10, 2010/0 Comments/by

Ohio Couple Killed By Carbon Monoxide From SUV Left Running In Garage

Here are two more tragic carbon monoxide poisoning deaths. Last Saturday a married couple, Brian and Shirley Sterling, 52 and 47, respectively, were found dead around noon in their home in Austintown, Ohio, by their daughter.  http://www.vindy.com/news/2010/jun/06/couple-found-dead-in-home/ She found the couple’s sport utility vehicle still running in a garage that is attached to the Sterling’s home, and naturally […]

June 7, 2010/1 Comment/by

Forklifts Emitting Carbon Monoxide Sicken 40 Employees At Texas, North Carolina Plants

Not only gas-generated heaters, but now forklifts, are causing carbon monoxide poisoning. There were two incidents Tuesday involving  factories, a fish-packing operation and a blueberry plant. In both cases roughly 20 employees got carbon monoxide poisoning from lethal fumes being emitted by forklifts.     In one incident, 21 workers at a fish packing plant in Galveston, Texas, were overcome by carbon monoxide and had to be […]

June 2, 2010/0 Comments/by

Carbon Monoxide From Dryer Poisons 10 At A New York People Inc. Home

 One person was sent to the hospital and nine others were treated at the scene for carbon monoxide poisoning at a People Inc. home Monday in New York State. http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=77218&catid=13 The incident took place at the facility on Center Road in Lancaster, N.Y.  High levels of carbon monoxide, which was leaking from a faulty dryer, were detected inside […]

May 24, 2010/0 Comments/by

Carbon Monoxide From Generator Sickens Family Of 11 In New York State

When you don’t have any electricity, I guess you don’t think about the potential danger of using a portable generator in your home. But you should, as a family in the Mohawk Valley area of New York found out last week. Some 11 family members were sent to the hospital suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning after a basement generator released the potentially […]

May 24, 2010/2 Comments/by

Wisconsin Couple Killed By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Two people died of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning last Saturday afternoon in their condominium in the city of Milton, Wis., the Rock County Sheriff’s Department reported. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/92024159.html Joan Leith, 66, and James Folk, 68, were found by their relatives, a press release from the sheriff’s department said. And seven other residents of the condo complex […]

April 30, 2010/0 Comments/by

Australian Jet Diverted After Unusual Fumes Detected

 A Virgin Blue plane was diverted to Adelaide, Australia, when its crew detected a noxious odor and some passengers began to fell sick. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/19/2876903.htm?section=justin  One female passenger was taken to Royal Adelaide Hospital in stable condition. As many as eight passengers felt sick from the fumes.  Initial reports were that the toxic fume was carbon […]

April 19, 2010/0 Comments/by

Two Carbon Monoxide Victims In Arizona Were Rodeo Cowboys

Two teenagers found dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in their pickup truck in Scottsdale, Ariz., had just participated in a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association competition. http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/news/article_d9f11e12-473b-11df-8b87-001cc4c03286.html Mike Hillman and Jesse Andrus, both 18-year-old high school seniors from Roswell, N.M., had traveled to Arizona last weekend to compete in the Fiesta Days Rodeo in Cave […]

April 14, 2010/0 Comments/by

California On Way To Mandating Carbon Monoxide Monitors in Homes

California has a bill pending that would require state residents to install carbon monoxide monitors if their homes have a fireplace or attached garage. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gA1wnqxm7Hk-yyzkCTvMjYCQ1SLQD9F1P6D81  On Monday the state Assembly passed the bill sponsored by Democratic Sen. Allen Lowenthal of Long Beach in a 47-19 vote. The bill will go to the Senate next for […]

April 13, 2010/0 Comments/by