Ex-safety manager given 19 months’ prison over five-year-old’s hyperbaric chamber fire death
Jeffrey Mosteller pleaded no contest to charges relating to burning death of Thomas Cooper in Michigan
TL;DR
- Jeffrey Mosteller, a former safety manager at the Oxford Center, was sentenced to 19 months in prison for involuntary manslaughter.
- The sentence is in connection with the death of five-year-old Thomas Cooper, who died in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber fire in January 2025.
- The child's death was caused by a spark igniting a fire in the oxygen-rich environment of the chamber.
- Mosteller is one of four former Oxford Center employees charged; others face charges including second-degree murder.
- The Oxford Center used hyperbaric oxygen therapy for various health conditions, a treatment that has become controversial.
- Cooper's parents have filed a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the clinic and the chamber's manufacturer.