What are the dangers associated with carbon monoxide?
Carbon monoxide poisoning can kill you before you are aware it is in your home. Carbon monoxide is a significantly toxic gas with poisoning being the most common type of fatal poisoning in many countries. Symptoms of mild poisoning include headaches and flu-like effects; larger exposures can lead to significant toxicity of the central nervous system and heart. Carbon monoxide can also have severe effects on the fetus of a pregnant woman. Our firm handled a case involving our client losing a family member and three others were injured by carbon monoxide poisoning. Their home had a gas powered hot water heater which caused the poisoning. It did not have a vent safety shutoff switch which it should have had. If it had that switch, the family would have been saved from a huge loss. The jury sent a message to defendant to put these safety switches on their hot water heaters in the future.
