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The Associated Press
A Texas jury has awarded $222 million to Kelli Henson, the widow of a Kansas man who died in a 2018 accident at Evergy’s Jeffrey Energy Center power plant near St. Marys.
The jury found that Team Industrial Services, a Texas-based subcontractor to Westar Energy, was 90% responsible for the death of Jesse Henson, of Manhattan, the family’s attorneys said in a news release Tuesday.
Henson and a co-worker, Damien Craig Burchett, of Overbrook, were both 45 when they were burned alive by steam as they were investigating a loss of power at the steam plant on June 3, 2018.
Westar, which is now called Evergy, was found to be 10% responsible, The Wichita Eagle reported.