DANGER!Carbon monoxide is fast becoming a leading killer among people of all ages. It is everybody's business to know how to detect CO, and prevent it from entering the home or workplace.
The following articles are from leading news and government agencies that will hopefully make you more aware of carbon monoxide, and how to protect yourself, your family, and co-workers from the dangers of CO.
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For information on how Bacharach products can help you and your organization stay safe, please call Bacharach at 1-800-736-4666, or e-mail us at help@bacharach-inc.com.
Not All CO Detectors Are The Same
Please consider the use of for use in your home and building. It has accuracy that is not available in the UL 2034 Listed CO Alarm Detectors that utilize some other sensor technology besides electrochemical or infrared science. Often the inexpensive carbon monoxide alarms do not have the level of accuracy required to protect all people. Individuals with heart and respiratory difficulties, pregnant women, infants and small children may all need better protection. Check out and .
Gasoline Generators Can Be Dangerous!
Tell everyone you know that using gasoline generators inside buildings can be dangerous, deadly and is not a good idea. Though this practice is obviously a hazard to most people, some just don't seem to get it. This includes garages that have doors open, basements, and under porch roofs of attached buildings. Review the archives of the CO News and see how often this type of poisoning accident occurs. Thanks from COSA, Carbon Monoxide Safety Association.
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
Boston Channel.com - Boston, MA, USA
Federal inspectors from OSHA's Braintree office found Carlos Seafood failed to take steps to reduce carbon monoxide levels and did not properly equip or ...
KTUU - Anchorage, AK, USA
Beverly Wooley with the Anchorage Department of Health and Human Services said the I/M program needs to change because new cars emit less carbon monoxide ...
SouthCoastToday.com - New Bedford, MA, USA
An investigation into the death of a dock worker who was overcome with carbon monoxide while working on a New Bedford fishing vessel has resulted in nearly ...
just-style.com - UK
The incident stemmed from a carbon monoxide gas leak, the officials said. Carbon monoxide is used at the plant, which makes trousers for export to the US. ...
Saturday-Monday, May 12-14, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
East London and West Essex Guardian Series - UK
MORE people have died from carbon monoxide poisoning in Waltham Forest than in any other London borough, according to the latest figures. ...
Boston Globe - Boston, MA, USA
Electrical fires that broke out at different points in an underground line on March 3 and April 27 created unsafe levels of carbon monoxide in two buildings ...
Cincinnati Post - OH, USA
The Covington City Commission is scheduled to vote later this month on an ordinance that would require carbon monoxide detectors in all rental housing. ...
Friday, May 11, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
Anchorage Daily News (subscription) - Anchorage, AK, USA
A 13-year-old girl was found dead Thursday evening in a downstairs hallway of a South Anchorage home, the apparent victim of carbon monoxide poisoning, ...
Aero-News Network - FL, USA
As a result, Dulles controllers are demanding that carbon monoxide detectors be installed at both the current tower and the new Dulles tower that is being ...
Boston Globe - Boston, MA, USA
--A carbon monoxide leak prompted the evacuation of a day-care center Thursday afternoon and sent two children to the hospital. ...
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis, MD, USA
EDGEWATER - Firefighters were called to a home on Central Avenue Tuesday after a family's carbon monoxide alarm went off, said Lt. Roy Phillips, ...
Thursday, May 10, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
The News - International - Pakistan
PARIS: A pall of carbon monoxide that hovered over Australia during wildfires there in 2004 came mainly from forest fires in South America, some 13000km ...
Contra Costa Times - CA, USA
The Shell oil refinery in Martinez has agreed to pay a $2.85 million fine for spewing 925 tons of carbon monoxide gas into the air during seven days in ...
Lex 18 - Lexington, KY, USA
A Lexington man has died from carbon monoxide poisoning after authorities say he was running a generator in his home for electricity. ...
CharterX - Portland, OR, USA
The FAA, apparently, wasn't taking any chances this time, after controllers at New York TRACON were medically treated for carbon monoxide poisoning, ...
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby, NA, Sweden
Carl Levin, D-Mich., that will require the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to review the use of carbon monoxide to alter the color of meat, ...
CCTV - Beijing, China
HAIKOU, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen workers from a food company were hospitalized after they suffered carbon monoxide poisoning in south China's island ...
Wednesday, May 9, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati, OH, USA
Some landlords say legislation that would require the installation of carbon monoxide detectors in Covington rental units would be hard to enforce and ...
WHSV - Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Fire officials are warning people to get carbon monoxide detectors after 12 were sent to the hospital Monday from a leak at a business in New Market. ...
Tuesday, May 8, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
European Space Agency - Paris, France
Using data from the SCIAMACHY instrument aboard ESA's environmental satellite Envisat, scientists have determined that the carbon monoxide hovering over ...
Aurora Beacon News - Aurora, IL, USA
BATAVIA - Investigators have not yet been able to find the source of the carbon monoxide that sent four people at a Batavia church to the hospital Sunday. ...
WHSV - Harrisonburg, VA, USA
Twelve workers at a Valley deli plant are recovering Monday night after being exposed to high levels of carbon monoxide. Now authorities are trying to ...
Plant Services - Itasca, IL, USA
The use of lift trucks powered by internal combustion engines inside buildings and enclosed spaces creates the potential buildup of carbon monoxide (CO). ...
H2 Daily - Carson City, NV, USA
The process begins when methane is exposed to the steam which creates both hydrogen monoxide and hydrogen atoms. The carbon monoxide is mixed with water ...
Saturday-Monday, May 5-7, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
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A camping trip in Stephenson County turns deadly after a gasoline generator leaks carbon monoxide.
Aurora Beacon News - Aurora, IL, USA
BATAVIA -- Four Batavia residents were treated at an area hospital after a carbon monoxide leak in a Batavia church sickened them during Mass Sunday morning ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
The site was chosen following sampling with DEP's mobile analytical unit during 2006, which studied carbon monoxide levels at several locations in and ...
PensacolaNewsJournal.com - Pensacola, FL, USA
(AP) - Two Mobile County men who were found dead on a boat docked in Orange Beach might have died from carbon monoxide poisoning, police said. ...
Shreveport Times - Shreveport, LA, USA
The detectors also feature a carbon monoxide alarm -- something Banks said is invaluable. -If their gas heater or gas fireplace is not burning efficiently, ...
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
SASEBO, Nagasaki -- Two elderly people died in an apartment here apparently after inhaling carbon monoxide that was generated when a briquette in a portable ...
Miami Herald - Miami, FL, USA
Prosecutors will not file criminal charges in the carbon monoxide death of a resort guest in Key West. And a pending new law requires detectors of the gas ...
Niagara Gazette - Niagara Falls, NY, USA
INCIDENT: Early Friday morning, fire units were dispatched to near simultaneous events involving carbon monoxide detector activations. ...
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee, FL, USA
Heeding the death of a tourist in a Key West hotel room last Christmas, Florida lawmakers have approved legislation requiring carbon monoxide detectors in ...
Traverse City Record Eagle - Traverse City, MI, USA
Examination at Munson Medical Center determined the students' symptoms could be from exposure to carbon monoxide, but none suffered long-term health effects ...
Friday, May 4, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
7Online.com - New York, NY, USA
(New York - WABC, May 3, 2007) - The air traffic controllers who were exposed to that carbon monoxide now want a criminal investigation into why they ...
New Philadelphia Times Reporter - New Philadelphia, OH, USA
Dr. James Hubert, Tuscarawas County coroner, said he suspects the deaths were due to carbon monoxide poisoning, but official results will come after ...
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack, NJ, USA
Then I saw carbon monoxide poisoning. A couple of weeks ago, my heating guy told me to get carbon monoxide detectors, but I hadn't purchased them yet. ...
WLNS - Lansing, MI, USA
Carbon monoxide gas and methane sewer gases has been seeping back inside Betsie Valley Elementary in Thompsonville for the past month. ...
Thursday, May 3, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
Newark Star Ledger - Newark, NJ, USA
Three people in a New Brunswick high-rise were taken to a hospital late last night to be checked out for possible carbon monoxide poisoning, ...
BBC News - UK
The Corfu holiday bungalow where two children died of carbon monoxide poisoning will never be let to tourists again, Greek authorities have said. ...
7Online.com - New York, NY, USA
Air traffic controllers were forced to keep working while suffering the effects of potentially deadly carbon monoxide. over the course of four hours. ...
WUSA9.com - Maryland News - http://www.wusa9.com
A Silver Spring man has his co-workers to thank for saving his life after he was overcome by carbon monoxide.
Wednesday, May 2, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth, NH, USA
“We'd have 200 parts per million of carbon monoxide blowing around, plus carcinogens from the diesel exhaust,” said O'Brien. “It wasn't pleasant.” ...
What's new at HSE -- http://www.hsenews.com
The warning follows an investigation into the tragic death at Balbirine Estates in Fife of part-time beater in 2006. When Carbon monoxide (CO) from the gas-fired heater accumulated in the rearing shed as he slept. ...
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Bacharach's Daily Message: Carbon Monoxide Safety is Everybody's Business.
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg, MD, USA
... parking lot at Route 301 and Route 197 in Bowie where they treated three children, one assistant and a driver for possible exposure to carbon monoxide. ...
MyFox Saint Louis - Saint Louis, MO, USA
And it also appears the Missouri House is poised to pass a similar bill, which will make carbon monoxide detectors mandatory, statewide.
WHDH-TV - Boston, MA, USA
CO levels are still so high that it's unlikely they'll be allowed to go home today. NStar crews were doing some cable work on underground wires, ...
Typically Spanish - Malaga, Spain
Ten residents of a block in the Málaga village of Periana had to be treated for Carbon Monoxide poisoning on Sunday night. ...
DANGER! 
