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  • From: "Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Carbon monoxide, was Propane versus electric
  • Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:13:44 -0700

About 130 deaths each year from CO poisoning. 8% due to stoves. So that would be about 10 deaths from your handy dandy kitchen appliance. This is down from an average of 240 a year. "They" (who the heck are they anyway?) attribute this to the use of the CO home detectors and more stringent laws which forbid gas/propane companies from lighting any appliance that candles. Auto exhaust deaths seem to have remained level at about 300-350 a year.

Maybe someone else can find electrocution deaths by stove but I couldn't find any. I did find (NCHS/Consumer Product Safety Commission) lots of small appliances and even some big ones (watch out for that air conditioner, 16 deaths; pumps/generators, 18 deaths; electric furnances/water heaters, 6 deaths, fridge/freezers, 3 deaths). However, the biggy for electricity is household wiring which accounted for 53 deaths. Most of the electrocultion deaths can be attributed to stupid people tricks like trying to do wiring while the power isn't off or touching bare wires!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>

But your danger from carbon monoxide from a modern propane or natural gas
range is no greater than your danger of electrocution from an electric one. In
either case you have to be prudent.





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