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Ex-safety manager sentenced to 19 months over five-year-old’s death in hyperbaric chamber fire

From The Guardian · () English

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  • Former safety manager Jeffrey Mosteller received a one-year, seven-month prison sentence over the death of five-year-old Thomas Cooper.
  • Mosteller pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter in Oakland County Circuit Court in Michigan.
  • Cooper died in a January 2025 fire inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.

Jeffrey Mosteller has been sentenced to one year and seven months in prison for his role in the death of five-year-old Thomas Cooper, who died in a fire inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber in Michigan.

Mosteller, 66, received the sentence after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter in Oakland County Circuit Court on Monday.

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