Heard the news today?

[TBServices]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17739737

Gas fitter jailed for 3 years after his customer dies of CO poisoning. Just goes to show you really can't be complacent with gas. He's got to live with that guilt for the rest of his life now. I don't think I could cope.


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[BOD]

very sad loss of life just goes to show even the pro`s make mistakes

[mountainman]

I agree, very sad and shouldn't have happened. A terrible mistake that will live with all concerned for the rest of their lives.

I suppose the backlash will be all negative to our trade but it must be said that 'He who has never made a mistake has never made anything'.

[TBServices]

I know it sounds bad, but it's made worse for us as he was a registered installer. If he'd been a cowboy then there would be no surprise. And unfortunately by the sounds of it this was a genuine one-off slip up on his part.

Probably been rushing through the job to try and compete with the illegal installers prices. I feel sorry for all involved tbh, including the installer, but he should have done his job correctly and made safety his priority.


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[goz666]

Knocks me sick, three years for that.....He'd get less for being a paedophile !!!

[PowerFlusher2]

And why is the Gas Safe Register (a private company operating outside government, of course) not being criticised for failure here. He was/is a Gas Safe Registered Engineer, who wasn't 'gas safe'! If this was a case involving a death by shotgun, those people who approved the issue of a shotgun certificate would be under the microscope and being hounded by the tabloid press, by now.

[scotty plumber]

So was the flue not sealed properly on to the boiler?

[SimonJohns]

I was wondering what the fault was too

No word from hse or gas safe yet thou

Prob be in next months magazine

[CES]

I read about this case before, apparently it had something to do with not using the securing screws supplied with the flue? Not sure it the flue came apart though.

[stevetheplumber]

Knocks me sick, three years for that.....He'd get less for being a paedophile !!!

funny how they can always send a one manband to prison but large companies like british rail cause many deaths by failing to carry out correct procedure and all they get is a big fine not just once but on at least two occasions that ive heard of recently one being the potters bar incident and the second was a crossing they new to be substandard

oh its the rich wot gets the pleasure
and the poor wat gets the blame
its been like that for ever
oh wat a bleeedin shame

[quality]

We do not know the actual cause of this so called co poisoning, if we did we could comment but because we don,t we can not
I wish the chap the very best as he is obviously now suffering

[BOD]

now you've mentioned screws haven't we had a topic on this before ? my point then was the screws tap into the air intake not the outlet

[mutley racers]

are they talking about the little self tappers that you connect the horizontal flue onto the flue elbow? If so, how would the flue dislodge from the elbow on its own accord?

[hammers4spanner]

to goto work as a gas fitter and to be home as a killer ,,,feel sorry for all here in this story

[M.Joshi]

Is the answer to fit a CO detector with each install? They're relatively cheap. British Gas seem to push them all the time like power flushes.