Workers Injured In Kleen Energy Plant Still Waiting For Millions They've Been Awarded

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 table of his Glastonbury home Thursday. "Then we started smelling gas and the smell kept getting stronger and that is when alarm bells go off for me."

An electrician by trade, Hilliker and his crew of six were ready to start work but instead were told to wait because a "gas blow," a procedure to clean debris from pipes, was taking place.

As the smell of gas grew Hilliker made a decision that may have saved his life: he told his crew he was going back to the trailer to wait for the signal to start working rather than stand around inside the main building.

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