Power Plant Explosion

Thief Sentenced For Urinating On Power Station Transformer, Knocking Out Electrity To 2,000 Homes

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.20.2012

This guy was no whiz kid. A heroin user was sentenced to a year in prison after he tried to rob a UK power station last year, only to suffer sever...

Middletown Explosion: Workers File Lawsuit Against Kleen Energy Systems Power Plant

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Two workers injured in a power plant explosion filed a lawsuit Monday alleging that proper safety procedures were not followe...

Middletown Explosion: Warning Was Issued Just Before Connecticut Power Plant Exploded

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — A worker monitoring natural gas levels at a Connecticut power plant reportedly called for an evacuation moments before an ex...

Middletown Explosion: Workers Spent 80-Plus Hours A Week At Kleen Energy Plant

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Some workers building a Connecticut power plant shattered by a gas explosion had been spending more than 80 hours a week ther...

Middletown Explosion: Cause Of Accident Near

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The brother of one of five workers killed in an explosion at a power plant under construction says his brother called the pro...

Kleen Energy Gas Explosion: Criminal Investigation Launched

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — Authorities in Connecticut have launched a criminal investigation into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at ...

Connecticut Gas Explosion: 'Mass Casualties' Reported At Kleen Energy Systems Power Plant

AP | PAT EATON-ROBB and JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 05.25.2011

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. — An explosion that sounded like a sonic boom blew out walls of an unfinished power plant and set off a fire during a test of ...