Toxic to humans, carbon monoxide (or CO) is an extremely poisonous gas caused by unsafe gas appliances. Dubbed the ‘Silent Killer’ as it’s colourless, tasteless and odourless, it has claimed the lives of many thousands of people. In fact, it is estimated that around 50 people die each year from …
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Be CO safe at work
Toxic to humans, carbon monoxide (or CO) is an extremely poisonous gas caused by unsafe gas appliances. Dubbed the ‘Silent Killer’ as it’s colourless, tasteless and odourless, it has claimed the lives of many thousands of people. In fact, it is estimated that around 50 people die each year from …
What are the risks of unsafe gas appliances?
If you don't have your gas appliances serviced regularly, if your gas appliances are fitted by incompetent and untrained workers, or if you don't take steps to respond quickly to boiler breakdowns and other gas emergencies, you could pay for your mistake with your life.
There are four major dange…
Security company sentenced for generator death failings
A security company has been fined for safety failings after a lone working security guard was killed by carbon monoxide fumes from a petrol generator.
Arthur Ebirim, 45, from Peckham, south-east London, was overcome by the killer gas on 28 October 2011 as he kept a night-time watch over a disused…
The dangers of carbon monoxide
Carbon monoxide has been called “a silent killer” by Dame Sally Davies, chief medical officer for England, stating that the deadly toxin “leads to 50 deaths every year”. At first glance this figure may seem relatively low when compared to other statistics (for example, from 2010 to 2011, 388 people …
Landlord prosecuted for endangering lives
A landlord has been handed a suspended jail sentence for endangering lives after a mother, her partner and her eight-year-old daughter were poisoned by carbon monoxide at a flat in Lewisham.
Gail Calvert, her partner Stephen Clayden and the young girl inhaled large quantities of the deadly ga…
Sheffield landlords put tenant's life at risk
Two Sheffield landlords have been handed suspended jail sentences after dangerous defects were found on every gas appliance at a house they rented out to a young woman.
During the prosecution of landlords Waheed Ahmid and Farhat Basharat, his wife, Sheffield Magistrates heard the defects were…
Builder sentenced for unsafe work after death of couple
A self-employed builder has been fined £75,000 and ordered to undertake community service after work he carried out on an elderly couple's home resulted in their death from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Mohammed Jamil had been contracted to carry out work on the garage roof at the home of husba…
Illegal gas fitter prosecuted for endangering lives
An illegal gas fitter has been prosecuted for endangering lives by
undertaking potentially lethal work at a property in Colchester.
Kevin Cook, 55, trading as Team Electric, installed a gas fire at a house in Rowhedge, Colchester, in August 2010, although he was not registered to undertake ga…
Illegal North Somerset gasman lied about credentials
A Clevedon man has been prosecuted for illegally installing a gas
boiler and flue at a property at Severn Beach, Bristol, while not
registered with CORGI, the then industry body.
CORGI was superseded by the Gas Safe Register in April 2009.
North Avon Magistrates’ Court was told that Jeff…
Builder's work on chimney put family at risk
A family was exposed to deadly carbon monoxide fumes after building work on a chimney caused a blockage in a flue.
Builder Wayne Marshall had been engaged to carry out repairs to a joint chimney by householders at a property in Dulais Road, Seven Sisters in March 2010, but left an amount of rub…
Wigan landlord sentenced over gas safety risk
A Wigan landlord has been prosecuted for putting the life of a tenant at risk by falsifying a gas safety document.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) took legal action against Terence McBride after it discovered he had changed the dates on the record for an annual gas safety check to suggest…
Staffordshire family exposed to carbon monoxide
A gas engineer from West Bromwich has been prosecuted after a family
of five were taken to hospital following exposure to carbon monoxide.
The two adults and three children aged two, nine and 11 were taken ill on 22 January 2011, Birmingham Magistrates' Court heard. The family housekeeper was als…
Landlord prosecuted for putting students at risk
A Glasgow GP has been fined after failing to maintain a gas boiler at a student flat he owned in Oxford.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Dr Tariq Mahmood for breaching Gas Safety Regulations in December 2010.
Oxford Magistrates' Court heard that on 17 December 2010, a gas installer…
Tenby landlord sentenced for gas safety failings
A Tenby landlord has been fined for failing to maintain a gas fire safely within one of his properties.
David Ian Douglas-Law of Penally, Tenby, was fined £8,500 and ordered to pay costs of £1,500 at Haverfordwest Magistrates' Court following a prosecution brought by the Health and Safety Executiv…
Suspended prison sentences for illegal gas fitters
Two men who operated a Harrogate-based plumbing firm have been handed
suspended prison terms for falsely claiming to be Gas Safe registered
engineers and leaving one local family in "immediate danger".
The men, sole employees and directors of PH Plumbing and Heating Engineers Ltd, were found out …
Milton Keynes plumber put lives at risk with illegal gas work
A plumber who put a householder at risk by illegally installing and working on a gas boiler has been sentenced.
Trading as C&H Services, Christopher Johnson, 45, installed a new gas boiler in the kitchen of a residential property in Fairfield Road, Dunstable in April 2010.
He was called back …
Wakefield builder fined for dangerous gas work
A family was put in danger after a local builder carried out defective gas fitting work while constructing an extension to their home, a court has been told.
Nigel Parker illegally modified the flue of a gas combi-boiler, extended pipework and moved the bayonet fitting for a gas cooker. He also left…
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council fined for carbon monoxide leak
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council has been fined for endangering people's health after carbon monoxide leaked from a gas boiler at a community centre.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted the local authority after members of a bridge club using the Westlands Community Centre in Whitf…
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