HOUSTON – A second lawsuit has been filed in response to a June incident at a Kansas power plant which killed a pair of workers, per recent Harris County District Court records.
The adult children of the late Damien Burchett initiated legal action against Team Industrial Services, Inc. on July 31 in the Harris County 281st District Court.
The elder Burchett worked as an operations manager at the Jeffrey Energy Center in St. Mary’s, Kan.
According to court documents, the decedent was on duty at the facility when a Unit 3 turbine failed and caused a large steam release.
He and another worker went to investigate the problem. Upon their arrival on the floor housing the machinery in question, the original petition says, they “were engulfed in flesh boiling steam that had filled the room.”
Burchett was subsequently transported to the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City, Kan. where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Burchett’s family was preceded in filing suit over the fatal steam release at Kansas’s largest power plant by Kelli Most, the widow of Jesse Henson. In a complaint filed against TIS and others more than a month ago, Most claims her husband died “a horrific death.”
Consequently, Burchett’s estate seeks unspecified monetary damages and a jury trial.
Michael C. Rader of the law firm Bartimus Frickleton Robertson Rader, P.C. in Leawood, Kan. serves as the survivors’ lead counsel.
Harris County 281st District Court Case No. 2018-50716