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Title: Carbon Monoxide Detectors For Residential Use
Author: Bruce D. Dawson
Source: American Gas Association 1990
Year Published: 1990
Abstract: Stan Blackman, Executive Director of COSHA, recently noted that: More than 5,000 people are killed by carbon monoxide (CO) each year in the US. 1500 of these are CO-related appliance accidents. Each year 10,000 people suffer from CO poisoning, producing brain damage from mild to severe. It is estimated that 200,000 people each year suffer heart attacks caused by chronic CO poisoning. Dr. M. Dolan in Annals of Emergency Medicine notes: 23.6 percent of those tested with flu-Hke symptoms had CO poisoning. In our territory in 1989, we investigated 40 incidents involving CO 42 people were hospitalized for CO sickness and another 31 were sick but not hospitalized. Most of these cases involved CO resulting from: Dirty furnaces (soot, rust etc.) Chimney stoppage Products of combustion being recirculated There were surely other cases that we were not called on to investigate. As a result of statistics like these, a great deal of interest has been raised on the subject of CO detection. For example, efforts were made in 1989 to have the Uniform Building Code changed so that a CO sensor would be required in all new construction where a fossil-fuel-fired appUance or attached garage was present. This effort failed to be approved yet the feeling is that it will be proposed again, perhaps in a few years when some of the unanswered concerns are addressed.

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