Missing Carbon Monoxide Alarm Results in $3.25 Million Judgment

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…

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…

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,…

Carbon Monoxide Sends 12 Oklahoma Inn Guests To Hospital

In one of the larger incidences of carbon monoxide poisoning in recent months, a dozen guests at an Oklahoma inn were hospitalized in late July after taking in dangerous levels of the gas. http://www.koco.com/r/28670355/detail.html A damaged…

TV Reporter Almost Dies From Carbon Monoxide In TV Truck

A reporter for WINK-TV in Florida was almost killed by carbon monoxide poisoning last Friday when he was out on assignment, according to the website TVSpy.  Nick Spinetto was out in the field, working in a live truck to finish up a story…

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…

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…

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…

Mother, Three Children Killed By Carbon Monoxide In Toledo

How many times has this tragedy played out this winter, one of the worse the country has seen in many years? Four people, a mother and her three children, died of carbon monoxide poisoning last week in Toledo, Ohio.  http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=news/local&id=8029564&pt=print They…

Two Milwaukee Men, Two Pitt Bulls Die Of Accidental Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Carbon monoxide poisoning took the lives of two cousins, one who had been celebrating his birthday, and two pit bulls in South Milwaukee this weekend, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/117962754.html Authorities…

Man Dies Of Apparent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning In Wisconsin Cabin

A Minnesota man was discovered dead of apparent carbon monoxide poisoning in his cabin in western Wisconsin last week, according to press reports. http://www.startribune.com/local/117647318.html Gene Prekker, 60, of St. Paul, Minn., was found…