An emergency medical technician died of carbon monoxide poisoning and two of her co-workers were hospitalized last Friday in White Oak, a town in east Texas. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D9HISE7O2.html# Co-workers found the three victims Friday morning during a shift change, according to the Associated Press. The carbon monoxide that felled them came from a generator that was left on in […]
In one of the largest verdicts ever in Baltimore, a jury awarded $34.3 million in damages to 23 people who were permanently injured from carbon monoxide poisoning when the toxic gas was released at a Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse in 2008. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/jury-awards-34333-million-verdict-in-carbon-monoxide-poisoning-case-99492874.html The verdict followed a 13-week trial and two days of deliberations by the jury, which awarded damages for […]
This isn’t the typical fatal carbon monoxide poisoning that I usually blog about, but I thought it was worth noting. Quan Quan, the fertile Chinese zoo panda who gave birth to seven cubs, has died after inhaling a deadly mix of carbon monoxide and chlorine fumes. http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/revered-chinese-panda-quan-quan-dies-from-gas-poisoning/19571855 I guess this sad accidental death is a reminder […]
In the winter, there are always carbon monoxide fatalities when people use gas generators to warm their homes. In the summer, gas generators used to run air conditioning are often to blame for giving off deadly fumes that kill. Over the Fourth of July weekend a married couple was found dead inside their 29-foot cabin cruiser in New Smyrna Beach, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
No matter how many stories appear in newspapers on the topic, people obviously still don’t seem to understand the danger of using gas-fueled generators indoors to heat their home. Or maybe they’re so cold, they don’t care and put on the generators. In the latest lethal accident, three men in their prime were killed by carbon monoxide poisoning […]
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 […]
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 […]