Asbestos News Roundup: 1.14.10
January 14th, 2010. By LucyC
A roundup of recent asbestos-related news and information that you should be aware of.
Asbestos Lawsuits
Charleston, WV: Two new asbestos lawsuits just filed in Kanawha County, have named 133 defendant companies in asbestos lawsuits. The suits are brought on behalf of the etsate of the late Raymond E. Brewer Sr, and Mr. LaRosa, who were allegedly exposed to asbestos-containing materials during the period they worked with the defendant companies. The two men developed asbestosis and asbestos mesothelioma, according to the suit. They allege that the companies neglected to warn them of the dangers associated with asbestos, that the companies did not test for asbestos-containing products, or have asbestos-containing materials removed.
Just in case you’d like to know, the companies named in the lawsuits are: 20th Century Glove Corporation; A.O. Smith Corporation; Ajax Magnethermic Corporation; Alliance Machine Company; Allied Glove Corporation; Allis-Chalmers Corporation; American Optical Corporation; Anchor Packing Company; Anderson Greenwood & Co.; Argo Packing Company; Armstrong International, Inc.; Atlas Industries, Inc.; Aurora Pump Company; A.W. Chesterton; Bayer Cropscience, Inc.; Beazer East, Inc.; Bechtel Corporation; Borg-Warner Corporation; Brand Insulations, Inc.; Buffalo Pumps, Inc.; Cameron International Corporation; CBS Corporation; Certainteed Corporation; Cleaver-Brooks Company, Inc.; Cooper Industries, Inc.; Copes-Vulcan, Inc.; Coppus Turbines; Crane Co.; Crown, Cork & Seal USA, Inc.; Dana Corporation; Didier Taylor Refractories Corporation; Dravo Corporation; Durabla Manufacturing Company; Earl B. Beach Company; Eaton Corporation; Eichleay Corporation; Elliott Company; F.B. Wright Company; Fairmont Supply Company; Famous Furnace & Supply Co.; Fisher Controls International, LLC; Flinn & Dreffein Eng. Co.; Flowserve US, Inc.; Flowserve FSD Corporation; Flowserve US, Inc. as successor to Valtek International; Foseco, Inc.; Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation; the Gage Company; Gardner Denver, Inc.; Garlock Sealing Technologies, LLC; General Electric Company; General Refractories Company; Gentex Corporation; George V. Hamilton, Inc.; Goodrich Corporation; Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company; Goulds Pumps; Graybar Electric Company, Inc.; Greene Tweed & Co.; Grinnell Corporation; Hedman Mines LTD; Hinchliffe & Keener, Inc.; Honeywell International, Inc.; Honeywell, Inc.; Howden Buffalo, Inc.; I U North American, Inc.; IMO Industries, Inc.; Industrial Holdings Corporation; Ingersoll-Rand Company; Insul Company, Inc.; ITT Corporation; J.H. France Refractories Company; John Crane, Inc.; Joy Technologies, Inc.; Leslie Controls, Inc.; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Luckenheimer; Magnetek, Inc.; Mallinckrodt, Inc.; Manitowoc Company, Inc.; Metropolitan Life Insurance Company; Milton Roy Company; Morgan Engineering, Inc.; Mueller Steam Specialty; Nagle Pumps, Inc.; National Service Industries, Inc.; Nitro Industrial Coverings, Inc.; NL Industries, Inc.; North American MFG. Co.; O.C. Keckley Company; Oglebay Norton Company; Owens-Illinois, Inc.; P&H Mining Equipment, Inc.; Parker-Hannifin Corp.; Peerless Pumps, Inc.; Pneumo Abex Corporation; Premier Refractories, Inc.; Reading Crane; Rhone-Poulenc AG Company, Inc.; Riley Power, Inc.; Rockwell Automations, Inc.; Roper Pump Company; Rust Constructors, Inc.; Rust Engineering & Construction, Inc.; Safety First Industries, Inc.; Sager Corporation; Saint-Gobain Abrasives, Inc.; Spirax Sarco, Inc.; Square D Company; Sterling Fluid Systems (US), LLC; Sundyne Corporation; SVI Corporation; Tasco Insulations, Inc.; Townsend & Bottum, Inc.; Trane U.S., Inc.; UB West Virginia, Inc.; Unifrax Corporation; Union Carbide Corporation; Universal Refractories Corporation; U.S.F. & G. Insurance Company; Viacom, Inc.; Viking Pump, Inc.; Vimasco Corporation; Warren Pumps, Inc.; Washington Group International; Waste Management, Inc.; Watson McDaniel Company; Weil-McLain Company; Westinghouse Airbrake; Whiting Corporation; William Powell Company; and Yarway Corporation. (WV Record)
Asbestos Hot Spots
Salem, OR: Oregon State Correctional Institution in Salem, has suspended inmate visiting room hours due to concerns over asbestos contamination in the area where the visits take place. The suspension, announced on Wednesday, January 12, resulted from an OSCI employee finding a chunk of ceiling-insulation material on the floor in a mechanical room adjacent to the prison’s visiting room. The mechanical room houses plumbing and heating systems. The concern is that asbestos fibers may have blown into the visiting room and neighboring offices through the ventilation system. Air quality testing is planned. (StatesmanJournal.com)
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Does this list include all of the companies that ever produced Asbestosis? If not, where can I obtain such a list? Thanks in advance. This is the most comprehensive list I've seen to date. I am one of the beneficiaries of a mesothelioma wrongful death suit, my Dad died from the disease 6 months after diagnosis at the age of 65. Ive been unable to obtain any information from my Dad's estate attorney's because I am not the executor of his estate, my Dad's second wife is. So, this is very helpful. Thank you.
Hi Christine, First off, my sympathies on your father's passing. I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for–but I'll try to answer as best I can. Asbestosis is a form of lung disease that produces scarring of the lungs–so there isn't really a list of companies as such for that. The list you may be referring to is for those companies that have used asbestos or asbestos-containing products in their manufacturing process–as opposed to asbestos mining companies. There are many companies that have used asbestos-containing parts or products in the making of their own products–so many companies (and many that have subsidiaries or multiple divisions) that it is probably easier to first list or find out the companies at which your father worked; additionally, the next level would be knowing which companies may have supplied asbestos or asbestos-containing parts or products to the company(ies) your father worked at, that he may have either worked with directly, or come in contact with. There are lists of many of these companies, but to start with them all makes for a challenging process to try to identify the ones you're really wanting to know about. I hope this helps–good luck.