Tenant Awarded $3.25 Million for Carbon Monoxide Alarm Violation Failure to Install a carbon monoxide alarm in a rental property has resulted in a $3.25 Judgment against a Stevens Point Landlord, Pamalla Schneider in a March jury trial in Portage County Wisconsin. By Attorney Gordon Johnson Kayla Griffin was a 14-year old high school student […]
Landlord Must Protect Tenants from Unsafe Conditions Hiring a maintenance company does not change Landlord responsibilities to keep an apartment or home well maintained and safe for tenants. By Rebecca Martin The word, Landlord, brings up different connotations in people’s minds. Whether it is the actual property owner, or the managerial agent delegated to […]
Hurricane Aftermath Equals Carbon Monoxide Don’t let the aftermath of hurricanes be carbon monoxide poisoning and deaths. Too many storms lose more to generators than wind and water. By Rebecca Martin The official start of the 2023 hurricane season begins June 1 according to the National Hurricane Center. The National Hurricane Center, headquartered in […]
Another Hero needed because of an Indoor Gas Engine Another hero was needed to prevent a fatal CO poisoning because of a gas engine (a compressor) being run indoors, this time in an attached garage. By Rebecca Martin “We are very lucky that she woke up in time to find the six-year-old and alert the […]
Need Constant Reminders for Carbon Monoxide Prevention There is no one solution for carbon monoxide prevention. Stopping CO poisoning requires a large scale legislative, regulatory and standards changes requiring detectors in all indoor spaces and annual professional maintenance of all fuel burning appliances. By Rebecca Martin The prevalence of warnings about the potential sources of […]
Carbon Monoxide At Work Results in Death and Brain Damage Carbon monoxide at work can result in death or brain damage because one doesn’t have to be asleep to be poisoned. By Rebecca Martin We emphasize over and over that carbon monoxide detectors should be installed in any place where people sleep but […]
Marcus Cedar Creek Theater Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Leak A theater carbon monoxide leak on Sunday resulted in the evacuation of a Marcus Theater in the Wausau, Wisconsin area. 683 PPM of carbon monoxide was found in the theater where the movie Scream Six was playing. By Rebecca Martin Reality resembled the horror film on the screen […]
Two Die, Others Poisoned in Dayton Carbon Monoxide Incidents Carbon monoxide is not a virus–it does not spread through proximity. But failure to have functioning alarms continues to be endemic as a string of bad Dayton carbon monoxide deaths and poisonings shows. Editor’s Note: Everyone seems to understand the importance of a smoke detector in […]
Columbia’s Allen Benedict Court Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Part II of the Allen Benedict Carbon monoxide poisoning series, we continue the saga of CO related deaths in Columbia South Carolina. By Rebecca Martin In the previous blog, we covered the history of the public housing project known as Allen Benedict Court, which was located in […]
South Carolina Public Housing Debacle – Allen Benedict Court Deaths Institutional and societal neglect turn historic Allen Benedict Court community into a carbon monoxide death zone. By Rebecca Martin In 2018, James Chapman was one of over 400 residents at a government-run housing complex in Columbia, South Carolina. He is now thought to be the […]