The Invisible Killer Nearly three hundred people in the United States alone, die from the poisonous gas called carbon monoxide every year. Several thousand others go to hospital emergency rooms for treatment of this serious adverse dormant gas every year as well (CSPC 466). Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, tasteless, odorless, latent gas produced by the incomplete burning of solid, liquid and gaseous fuels (CPSC 464). Appliances fueled with natural gas, coal, liquefied petroleum oil, kerosene, …showed first 75 words of 620 total…

…showed last 75 words of 620 total…installed in the hallway near every separate sleeping area of the home (CSPC, 466). Some obvious precautions include never leaving a car running in an attached garage, even with the garage door open. Also do not operate an unvented fuel-burning appliance indoors. Although some of these recommendations may seem like common sense when they are evaluated on paper, they are often times overlooked by average people with common sense and result in tragic death and injury.