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Coroners
Our thanks to any Coroners who are visiting this website.
We write to Coroners to check every death and we also write once a year to send Coroners our latest statistics and update them on any new information.
INFORMATION FOR CORONERS
CO-Gas Safety thanks all the Coroners it has corresponded with over the years. Our data and statistics would be nothing, without all the work done by you and your officers.
We would like you to pass on our details to any family who has lost a loved one to carbon monoxide poisoning or other fuel related death (Stephanie Trotter OBE at Tel. 01372 466135 or office@co-gassafety.co.uk).
We are particularly interested in helping with regard to the death of a young child or baby. We are also interested in helping any families where there is an unexplained death but where the toxins* in the other products of combustion (other than carbon monoxide) could have caused the death. We try to offer anyone who contacts us free and confidential help and advice. However, please warn your families that we are a very small charity and we may only be able to give them information and perhaps pass them on to another organisation, if there is one.
We would also like to ask you to investigate whether a CO detector or alarm was present in the property where the death from CO took place. If it was an alarm, what sort of alarm? Was it to EN50291 or not? If not to EN 50291 what was it? How old was it? Was it a battery powered alarm or mains powered? Has it been tested to see if it still works or not? We could help with this.
We would also like to inform you about the other toxins in fuels. Please see under '*Other Toxins' on the home page. We are extremely concerned that deaths are being caused by or contributed to by these other toxins.
Please note that we have offered what help we can to a mother of a three year old found dead in a room with a gas appliance with a blocked flue. The house was filled with gas appliances and the houses on each side of this house were full of gas appliances.
The child apparently had no CO but 15 times the higher levels of manganese, (and also, unknown levels of arsenic, barium and nickel).
The inquest found the death was caused by natural causes and the higher levels of manganese were apparently the result of pooling of the blood after death. However, there was no research quoted for pooling other than research on drugs and this case does give us great concern.
We are not surprised because in the 16 years we have been helping people, we have come to the conclusion that CO is not the whole story.
We have also come across many cases of people saying they were made ill from leaks of natural gas.
FORMS
Please fill in the forms and return them to us.
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