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Missing Carbon Monoxide Alarm Results in $3.25 Million Judgment
In The NewsTenant 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…
Landlord Set To Stand Trial On Criminal Charges In The Carbon Monoxide Deaths Of Three Tenants
In The News
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
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Forklifts Emitting Carbon Monoxide Sicken 40 Employees At Texas, North Carolina Plants
In The News
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…
Carbon Monoxide From Dryer Poisons 10 At A New York People Inc. Home
In The News
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…
Wisconsin Couple Killed By Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
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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,…
Florida Woman Dies of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning From Generator
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A 41-year-old Florida woman, who apparently was using a generator for heat because she couldn’t pay her electric bill, died from carbon monoxide poisoning Thursday. http://www.wesh.com/news/23033192/detail.html
When paramedics responded…
Settlement Reached in Suit Stemming From Man Dying Of Carbon Monoxide at Best Western Hotel
In The NewsBest Western has settled a federal lawsuit filed by the family of a man who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in one of the chain’s hotels in Upper Macungie Township, Pa.
http://www.newyorkinjurynews.com/2010/03/29/pa-hotel-reaches-settlement-over-carbon-monoxide-death_201003292981.htmlThe…
Four in Nebraska Almost Killed As Car Is Left Running in Garage
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Four people nearly died of carbon monoxide poisoning Sunday in Nebraska after a car was left running in a home’s attached garage. http://www.omaha.com/article/20100316/NEWS01/100319699
Authorities were investigating the near-fatal incident…
New Jersey Man Dies of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning After Using Generator When Storm Knocked Out Power
In The News
Sometimes, I just wished more people could read our warnings about the risk of carbon monoxide exposure. What I have come to learn about carbon monoxide and the news, if there is a big storm that knocks out power, someone will die because…
Carbon Monoxide Forces Evacuation of 35 From Eight Manhattan Buildings
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It’s not terribly often that one reads about building evacuations in Manhattan due to high levels of carbon monoxide, but that’s what happened this past Sunday.
Thirty five people were forced out of eight Upper West Side buildings after…
Wisconsin Gov. Signs Law Requiring C.O. Detectors
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Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle Wednesday signed a bill that mandates that state residents put carbon monoxide detectors in their residences. http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/87282252.html
Under the new law, carbon monoxide detectors will…