Mr. Bane,
I've got a slide in truck mount and nearly asphyxiated myself and two customers while parked outside their home with the machine running. The wind blew fumes in through a slider I had open for my hoses. We had to go to the emergency room for treatment. Several years ago I read an article you wrote about this but I forgot it. Why did you stop warning people in our business about how dangerous these things are?
Steve
Actually Steve, I think it's been about ten years since the safety campaign on the dangers of carbon monoxide was terminated. You wouldn't believe the hateful comments those articles generated. I was accused of using disasters to sell equipment but I wrote purely in the interest of public safety and the damage to our industry's reputation.
Publicizing these public relations nightmares was stopped to avoid the wrath of an industry that's dominated by equipment that runs on fossil fuel. Ironically, about that same time, industry bulletin boards were becoming popular and they serve the same purpose. Posters on these boards report carbon monoxide incidents and fires without rebuttal.
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