The Luxaire, Fraser-Johnson and Moncrief furnaces can be identified by the model numbers PAUT-LD08N073, PAUT-LD12N073, PAUT-LD12N105 and PAUT-LD16N105. He also said the agency initially learned of problems with the furnace through newspaper reports. Rumelt said hundreds of products are under recall at any given time.
He said the methods used had to depend on everything from placing newspaper advertisements to distributing bulletins in supermarkets. Other people may have died of carbon monoxide poisoning and not known it, and there may be others who are suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning and don't know it."ĭan Rumelt, a spokesman for the product safety commission, a Federal agency with jurisdiction over 15,000 products used mostly in the home, acknowledged that the system employed to notify consumers of defective products was often ineffective.
Her lawyer, Alan Konigsberg, said: "Obviously, the recall notice is not working. Lieber is suing York and Borg-Warner for damages. The gas, which is produced by incomplete combustion, can be fatal if inhaled in large amounts. Lieber and her doctors make a connection between possible carbon monoxide poisoning and the recurring dizziness and headaches she had suffered for nearly seven and half years. It was a dealer who informed Anita Lieber of Great Neck, L.I., that the Heatpipe furnace installed in her home in December 1986 would be replaced without charge. The furnaces were not concentrated in one region of the country. Those without the warranty we have tried to locate through announcements in the news media or through distributors who knew dealers who installed the furnaces." "We were able to contact some owners through warranty card information, but that only accounted for a quarter of all the Heatpipe furnaces out there.
"We launched a nationwide publicity campaign last October," said Chuck Russ, York's director of market development. York made about 10,000 Heatpipe furnaces between 19 under the brand names Borg-Warner, Luxaire, Fraser-Johnson and Moncrief. The company, based in York, Pa., agreed to replace the furnaces and allow $200 for installation. IN a graphic illustration of the frustrations of trying to recall defective consumer products, the manufacturer of a gas furnace linked to 10 carbon monoxide deaths in the Chicago area three years ago is having trouble finding owners of 4,000 furnaces still in use nationwide.Īs part of a settlement with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the York International Corporation, maker of the Heatpipe Gas Furnace, agreed to send letters to owners warning that the vent system could fail, causing poisonous carbon monoxide to leak into the home.
0 kommentar(er)
