Three people have been charged with second-degree murder after a 5-year-old boy was killed when a hyperbaric chamber exploded at a medical facility in Michigan earlier this year, officials announced Tuesday.

The pressurized chamber delivers concentrated oxygen that can help heal wounds, infections and burns, as well as improve other medical conditions

The Michigan attorney general has accused the owner of a medical center and three of its employees of ignoring safety standards to make a profit.

Four people have been arrested after a boy, 5, died in a hyperbaric chamber explosion on Jan. 31, it's been reported.

The child who died in the Jan. 31 hyperbaric oxygen chamber fire was 5-year-old Thomas Cooper, of Royal Oak. He was trapped in the chamber when it caught fire, the family's attorney says.

Charges have been filed against four people in the Troy hyperbaric chamber explosion that killed a child. The Pulse discusses what regulations need to come to prevent another tragedy.

A hyperbaric chamber sits at an Oxford Center location in Brighton, Mich., on Feb. 8, 2024.