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Did you work with Byron Jackson Refinery and Power-Plant Centrifugal Pumps? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Byron Jackson Refinery and Power-Plant Centrifugal Pumps, made by Byron Jackson Pumps, sold from around the 1920s until the 1980s. Byron Jackson Pumps (Long Beach/Vernon CA — later part of Borg-Warner Pumps and then Flowserve) manufactured refinery, power-plant, and water-utility centrifugal pumps. Plaintiffs allege Byron Jackson pumps shipped with asbestos packing, gaskets, and motor insulation. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: asbestos pump packing, asbestos casing gaskets, motor insulation. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Pipefitters, Refinery operators, Power-plant operators, and Plant millwrights. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Byron Jackson Refinery and Power-Plant Centrifugal Pumps and were later diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim against the manufacturer. This is educational information from an independent publisher — not a law firm — and is not legal advice.
Product Description
Byron Jackson Pump Company (Long Beach/Vernon, California — later acquired into the Borg-Warner Pumps division and ultimately operated as Flowserve Byron Jackson) manufactured through the 20th century a major U.S. line of refinery, power-plant, water-utility, and pipeline centrifugal pumps. Byron Jackson vertical turbine pumps and horizontal split-case pumps were standard in West Coast and Gulf Coast refinery service and in major U.S. water and pipeline installations.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Byron Jackson pumps were specified with asbestos pump packing, asbestos casing and flange gaskets, and asbestos motor and bearing-housing insulation. Refinery operators, pipefitters, and pump-shop technicians who serviced Byron Jackson pumps disturbed asbestos packing and gasket material as a routine part of pump rebuild work.
Byron Jackson / Borg-Warner Pumps has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Refinery operators and pipefitters
- Power-plant operators
- Pipeline pump-station operators
- Pump-shop technicians and millwrights
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