Coroners

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). 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 and if not what was it? How old was it?

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 are helping 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 has yet to be held but this case does give us great concern.
We are not surprised because in the 15 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 do fill up the forms we send and return them to us but you can now download a form from here.