A restaurant manager on Saturday, February 22, 2014 at a mall in Long Island, died after inhaling carbon monoxide which caused carbon monoxide poisoning. One of his employees had to be hospitalized. Another 26 people were treated and released according to hospitals in the surrounding area.

“Police evacuated the restaurant and found the manger, Steven Nelson, 55, of Copiague, unconscious in the basement,” said a statement. “He was transported to Huntington Hospital where he was pronounced dead.”

A sign on the front of the restaurant the following Sunday said the building was condemned and unsafe and unfit for human habitation. “They found a leak in the flue pipe of the water heater”, said A.J. Carter, a spokesman for the town of Huntington.

Carbon monoxide is a colorless, odorless gas that is produced by an incomplete combustion of fossil fuels. The authorities sent the restaurant a fine for faulty equipment that was as high as $2,000.

State fire codes require only places where you sleep to have a carbon monoxide detector; therefore, the restaurant did not have one. Legal Sea Foods had their annual inspection of the restaurant, passing them a year ago in March and was scheduled for another inspection this year.

The restaurant and the businesses in the surrounding area were evacuated in precaution of the gas spreading. The natural gas provider, National Grid, shut the gas off to the restaurant as a precaution.