Family of illegal alien gets $300,000 for his death
Posted Nov. 6, 2007
8:25 AM
Newtown (AP)_ The family of an illegal alien who was electrocuted while working at a town owned building in Newtown will be getting a $300,000 settlement.
The settlement will benefit the young daughters of Ivan Patricio Tenecela, an illegal immigrant from Ecuador who was killed in 2004 when electricity from a power line shot through an aluminum ladder and shocked him.
The men were painting the outside of the Meeting House, a building that is maintained by the Heritage Preservation Trust of Newtown.
The settlement is with the town of Newtown and the Heritage Preservation Trust of Newtown as well as Campbell Quality Painting, the company that employed Tenecela.
At the time of his death Tenecela lived in Port Chester, N.Y.
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