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Widow of Kansas Man Killed in Evergy Accident Wins Lawsuit June 4, 2021
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Texas jury has awarded $222 million to the widow of a Kansas man who died in an accident at Evergy’s Jeffrey Energy Center power plant near St. Marys, Kansas, in 2018.
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-worked, Damien Burchett, of Overbrook, were burned alive when they were investigating a loss of power at the steam plant near St. Marys, Kansas, on June 3, 2018.
Waverly man awaits sentence in wife s death
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Nathan A. Henson, 36, was charged in connection with the 2017 death of his pregnant wife, Jessie.
He initially was found in October 2019 to be neither fit nor not guilty by reason of mental insanity.
Henson appealed that decision and a state’s expert concurred with a defense expert that Henson was not guilty by reason of mental insanity, State’s Attorney Gray Noll said. After the state’s expert’s report was submitted, the judge overturned his original ruling and in April found Henson not guilty by reason of mental insanity.
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.