Monday, December 20, 2010

December 20, 2010

“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.” Harvey S. Firestone (1868-1938)

CPSC Breaking News & Recent Recalls
Consumer Product Safety Commission;
Link to Product Safety Recall Information

Family 'lucky to be alive'
The Daily News of Newburyport
Kelleher said the husband woke up and noticed a carbon monoxide detector had been activated in the laundry room. At first, he thought the detector was ...

COSA NOTE: Thankfully there was a working carbon monoxide alarm in the building. If there was a low level monitor in place they could have skipped the illness symptoms altogether. ALSO, there is a quote from the town’s fire department representative stating “CO levels above 10 PPM are enough to cause concern.” The alarms being recommended in the same article, to “have two of them” do not respond at all to levels under 30 PPM and the 30 to 69 PPM has to be registered for at least 30 days before responding. There is a disconnect between the consumer & responders understanding of the U.L. 2034 Listed carbon monoxide alarm performance mandates & capabilities and what they think or want the alarms to do.

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Leads to Fatality
NBC Washington
Police found dangerous levels of carbon monoxide gas in a Warder Street home in the Northwest. A woman called 911 complaining of breathing problems. ...

Emergency responders to get devices for measuring carbon monoxide levels in ...
MassLive.com
Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, and nonirritating toxic gas that can cause severe health problems or even death. ...

Priest Suffers Carbon Monoxide Poisoning At Church
KCTV Kansas City
A Kansas City, Mo., church is praying for its pastor after he was hospitalized due to carbon monoxide poisoning. The Rev. Shawn Ratigan is in serious, ...

9 hospitalized from carbon monoxide poisoning
Middletown Press By Michelle Tuccitto Sullo, New Haven Register NEW HAVEN –
Nine people were hospitalized after high levels of deadly carbon monoxide fumes filled a house ...

Carbon monoxide leaves 14 Conn. residents ill
Newsday (AP) —Connecticut officials are advising homeowners to get carbon monoxide detectors after two dangerous incidents over the weekend. ...

Cold weather fuels carbon monoxide danger
Cape Coral Daily Breeze By MEGHAN McCOY,
Three individuals have been treated for carbon monoxide poisoning since cold weather has blown into Southwest ...

Pikesville MD CO Leak: 11 People, Including 3 Police Officers, Hospitalized
NewYorkInjuryNews Pikesville, MD—
Eleven people, including three police officers, were sickened as a result of a carbon monoxide leak in a house along the 4100 block of Colby ...

Carbon monoxide death brings warning from fire department
BCLocalNews
"At this time of year with our furnaces turned on and increased use of fire places the potential of carbon monoxide poisoning is very real," said Liz Wilson ...

Nix Hospital warns of winter's carbon monoxide poisoning threat
KENS 5 TV
As you turn on the heaters this winter, be careful to avoid carbon monoxide poisoning. People with severe cases of CO exposure can end up in the hyperbaric ...

Carbon monoxide draws fire department to Racine company
Journal Times RACINE –
The Racine Fire Department has been called to R&B Grinding, 1900 Clark St., this morning because of the carbon monoxide level. ...

CO leak at group home sends 5 to hospital
Journal Inquirer
By Kym Soper MANCHESTER — A carbon monoxide leak sent three staffers and two residents of a Charis Road special needs group home to Hartford Hospital early ...