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NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Some workers building a Connecticut power plant shattered by a gas explosion had been spending more than 80 hours a week there before the blast killed five Sunday, The Associated Press has learned. One employee said workers smelled gas less than an hour beforehand and were told to open doors wider for air.
The son of one of those killed told AP on Tuesday that his father told him the crew felt pressure to finish the Kleen Energy Plant.
Erik Dobratz, the son of pipefitter Ray Dobratz, said he wouldn’t be surprised if the long hours turned out to be a factor in the explosion.
A spokesman for the contractor, O&G Industries Inc., would not comment.
