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Safety+Health magazine
February 26, 2018
The other two cases included are the 2010 Kleen Energy gas explosion in Middletown, CT, and a propane explosion that occurred in 2007 at a general store in Ghent, WV. For the second straight fiscal year, CSB is among the agencies on President Donald Trump's proposed budget chopping block.
Hartford Courant
February 7, 2018
It's been eight years since six workers died in an explosion at Kleen Energy in Middletown, but that Sunday morning in 2010 is still vibrant to the friends and families left behind. More than 40 people gathered Wednesday morning near a monument on River Road just past the Kleen Energy entrance for anÃâà...
Hartford Courant
November 29, 2017
Firefighters said they extinguished a stubborn turbine fire at Kleen Energy Systems LLC in Middletown on Wednesday morning. A diesel spill appears to have been the cause, a fire official said. No one was injured in the fire, which took about three hours to put out because of where the fire was burning — inÃâà...
WFSB
November 28, 2017
Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire at a power plant in Middletown on Tuesday night. The fire was reported at Kleen Energy Systems power station around 11 p.m.. No injuries were reported by authorities. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Stay with Eyewitness News on-air and online for updates.
New Haven Register
November 28, 2017
MIDDLETOWN — City firefighters were called to the Kleen Energy power plant on River Road late Tuesday. A Middletown Police dispatcher confirmed firefighters were called to the power plant around 11 p.m., but had no further details on the nature of the fire. The power plant, which runs on natural gas,Ãâà...
Hartford Courant
November 11, 2017
An aerial view of the Kleen Energy plant in Middletown following an explosion Feb. 7, 2010, that killed six people. Workers' compensation claims are down in 2018, the fourth annual decline due to fewer workers on the job, better safety training and moderating medical costs. Stephen SingerContactÃâà...
Law360
August 9, 2017
In the case of Kleen Energy Systems v. Ace American and 10 other insurers, in Connecticut Superior Court, Lissy was given a big task: Help Kleen Energy get the coverage it deserved after a nearly complete $760 million Middletown power plant blew up in February 2010 and caused “delay in opening”Ãâà...
Hartford Courant
February 17, 2017
Here is a list of workers injured in the 2010 Kleen energy plant explosion in Middletown and the amount of a 2016 arbitrator's award that has been tied up in legislation. the list includes the company for whom each worked at the time: Timothy Hilliker Ducci Electric $5.2 million. Robert Edwards United AncoÃâà...
Hartford Courant
February 17, 2017
Timothy Hilliker was an electrical contractor who was working at the Kleen Energy Systems power station in Middletown on February 6, 2010, when a gas explosion killed six workers and injured 50 others, including Hilliker. SEE MORE VIDEOS. Timothy Hilliker was an electrical contractor who was working at the KleenÃâà...
Hartford Courant
February 17, 2017
As he walked up the stairs of the main building of the under-construction Kleen Energy power plant in Middletown on the morning of Feb. 7, 2010, Timothy Hilliker could hear natural gas pumping through the above-ground piping system. "It was incredibly loud," Hilliker said as he sat at the dining room tableÃâà...
Hartford Courant
July 27, 2016
The state Supreme Court, in a 6-1 decision Wednesday, upheld a Superior Court judge's dismissal of a lawsuit filed against O&G Industries by workers seriously injured in the 2010 Kleen Energy explosion that killed six people. Two men who were working within 100 yards of the explosion on Feb. 7, 2010Ãâà...
Hartford Courant
February 7, 2015
"Revelations today that a major participant in the tragic, deadly Kleen Energy Plant explosion has paid only an extremely small portion of its large fine is a disservice to the victims of this horrible catastrophe - especially after OSHA made concessions to the company. It is also unfair to the other companiesÃâà...
NBC Connecticut
February 12, 2014
The two-alarm fire that broke out in a turbine at the Kleen Energy plant in Middletown this morning is mostly out, but the fire chief expects crews to remain at the scene for most of the day as they carry out what he said is a labor intensive process. Firefighters responded to 1349 River Road at 7:06 a.m. onÃâà...
Hartford Courant
December 12, 2012
Dyann Chepulis never saw the $1.7 million the owners of the Kleen Energy plant paid to settle her lawsuit stemming from the 2010 Middletown natural-gas power plant explosion that killed her husband. Four days after a probate court judge in Litchfield approved Peter Chepulis' final estate on June 1, 2012,Ãâà...