Safety manager gets prison time over fatal hyperbaric chamber blaze
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Jeffrey Mosteller, 66, the safety manager at Michigan’s Oxford Center, pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter for the January 2025 death of 5-year-old Thomas Cooper when a hyperbaric oxygen chamber caught fire and exploded. He will serve 19 months in prison; four other former center employees face charges, and Cooper’s family has filed a $100 million civil lawsuit against the center and the chamber’s manufacturer for safety lapses that violated NFPA standards.
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