Ex-safety manager given 19 months’ prison over five-year-old’s hyperbaric chamber fire death

Published September 4, 2026 · Category: News

Overview

Jeffrey Mosteller pleaded no contest to charges relating to burning death of Thomas Cooper in Michigan

A former safety manager has been sentenced to one year and seven months in prison in connection with the death of a five-year-old Michigan boy who was killed in a fiery January 2025 explosion inside a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.

Details

Jeffrey Mosteller, 66, received that sentence after pleading no contest to involuntary manslaughter in Oakland county circuit court in Michigan on Monday.

Source

Originally published at www.theguardian.com.

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