Carbon monoxide sources around us
Carbon monoxide sources are all around us including:
Home carbon monoxide sources:
- Furnace (natural gas, propane, oil, wood)
- Fireplace (gas, wood, coal)
- Stove (gas, wood)
- Dryer (gas only)
- Barbeque (gas, charcoal)
- Gasoline/petrol powered garden tools
- Generator (gasoline, diesel, propane)
- carbon monoxide in cigarettes and tobacco smoke
Vehicles carbon monoxide sources:
- Cars, trucks, vans, recreational vehicles, campers, camper
- shells, transport, buses
- Gasoline/petrol
- Diesel
- Propane
- Natural gas
Boats carbon monoxide sources:
- carbon monoxide poisoning is surprisingly common in recreational motor-boating situations, especially for
people swimming around swim platforms and boarding ladders located close to the motor exhaust area.
- Even a mild case of CO poisoning can be made lethal because there is a risk of drowning when the effects of
the poisoning take hold.
- Gasoline/petrol
- Diesel
Camping carbon monoxide sources:
- carbon monoxide poisoning can easily happen when campers bring a heater into a tent.
- Heater (propane, kerosene)
- Generator (gasoline, diesel, propane)
- Camp fire
Travel carbon monoxide sources:
- Many hotel, motel and dormitory rooms are heated with individual heating units. There could be hundreds of
rooms and heating units in a building which increases the risk of sporadic (or unqualified) maintenance.
- The proximity of heating units to each other also increases the risk that the exhaust venting from one unit
could get drawn into the air intake in another unit. In an ideal world this would never happen but weather,
onsite conditions, and maintenance issues increase the risk of CO exposure.
Work carbon monoxide sources:
- Carbon monoxide is a common industrial hazard resulting from the incomplete burning of natural gas and any
other material containing carbon such as gasoline/petrol, kerosene, oil, propane, coal, or wood
- Gasoline powered tools such as pressure washers, chain saws, concrete-cutting saws, power trowels, floor
buffers, and welders
- Propane powered forklifts and other equipment
- Forges, blast furnaces, and coke ovens
- Carbon monoxide is produced in large amounts by some industrial processes
- Paint removers/strippers containing methylene chloride also "create" carbon monoxide. Though methylene chloride does not give
off carbon monoxide, the vapors are converted (metabolized) within the body into carbon monoxide. As a
result, a person can suffer carbon monoxide poisoning from inhaling methylene chloride vapors.
Other carbon monoxide sources:
- Indoor ice arenas (from engines on ice resurfacing equipment)
- Indoor car and motor shows
- Any environment in which combustion engines are used or burning is done, under conditions of insufficient
ventilation
- Forest and bush fires
- Around kilns in pottery studios and industrial applications
- Any kind of fire in a building, vehicle, boat, plane, or semi enclosed space
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When I finally got hold of him by phone, he hung up on me! He did call back later and said he was sorry and would not back the truck in anymore. He is back home after 2 days being gone and is still backing the truck in. Do I have any rights? I sleep for 2-4 hours in the afternoon and sometimes go back to sleep a couple of hours later. I am cold all the time and so tired.
I don't want to make a mountain out of a molehill but, I am wondering if that is why I am so tired lately.