Diver Bouey did the translation (thanks) of the article you refer to in another thread:
Using the Google translation engine - its not exactly what your french professor would accept but you get the point:
A plunger brings a continuation in Quebec
Canadian Press
Quebec
A 26 year old plunger whose life was completely broken by the inhalation during two hours of carbon monoxide contained in its bottles brings a continuation of 2,3 million against those which it considers responsible for its irreversible handicaps.
Affected of a permanent disability of 100%, François Isabelle, of Valley-Bélair, will remain unable to carry out some work that it is. According to description that in fact its lawyer, the young man is now physically and mentally limited.
In his action deposited in higher Court, the applicant holds responsible underwater Plongée Nautilus, a company of Quebec specialized in the sale and the hiring of equipment of deep-sea diving, and Envirolab, a Sainte-Foy company specialized in the environmental analysis.
The pled facts go back to September 1999. At that time, one engaged plungers to decontaminate the bed of the Jacques-Cartier river. The cylinders of compressed air used by the plungers were rented of deep-sea Diving Nautilus, which filled them using a compressor with gasoline. For its part, Envirolab provided a certificate of analysis of the compressed air, according to the declaration of the applicant.
At the end of his first diving, September 9, François Isabelle left water while coughing violently and while vomitting. He has difficulty in remain upright and he has several losses of conscience. At the hospital of the base of Valcartier, where one must transport it, it receives oxygen pure. One must however transfer it to the Sacré-Coeur hospital, of Montreal, to receive treatments in room hyperbare.
Thereafter, its health does not cease however worsening. It has increasing problems of memory and concentration, difficulty in speak and eat as well as frequent spasms and tremors. The blood tests reveal that it has in its blood a rate of carboxyhaemoglobin of 29% there whereas it should not have had. The inspectors of the CSST measure besides that the bottles of the applicant contained between 17 and 51 parts per million of carbon monoxide, that is to say ten times the allowed limit.
Since then, various problems of health, especially of neuropsychological nature, made rock the life of François Isabelle towards the nightmare and it will never go back from there, reports one in his declaration.
It underwent a severe attack of the memory and a significant psychomotor deceleration affects it in an irrevocable way. It forever became a burden for its joint and for the company, it is describes in its declaration.
According to prosecutors' of the resident of Valley-Bélair, the fault of deep-sea Diving Nautilus was to install the pure air intake with 1,6 meter above the compressor used to fill the bottles of the plungers. This height, pleads one, was insufficient to prevent that the air is contaminated by gases resulting from the internal combustion of the compressor with gasoline.