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Did you work with Crane Cranite Compressed Asbestos Sheet Flange Gaskets? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Crane Cranite Compressed Asbestos Sheet Flange Gaskets, sold from the 1900s until the 1980s. Crane Co. flange gaskets, including the Cranite compressed asbestos sheet line, are alleged, according to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, to have contained chrysotile asbestos fiber for flanged valve, pump, and piping service across industrial and marine installations. Chrysotile asbestos fiber sheet (Cranite) allegedly used in Crane Co.-branded flange gaskets on valve, pump, and piping installations. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Industrial engine mechanics, Engine rebuilders, Machine shop workers, and Marine engine mechanics. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Crane Cranite Compressed Asbestos Sheet Flange Gaskets 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
Crane Co. is alleged in publicly filed asbestos litigation records to have sold flange gaskets — including the well-known Cranite compressed asbestos sheet line — cut and stamped for use on Crane valves, Crane pumps, and general industrial piping. From the early 1900s into the 1980s, Cranite and companion Crane-branded gaskets were allegedly composed of chrysotile asbestos fiber bonded with elastomeric binders, packaged as sheet stock and die-cut ring gaskets shipped with Crane products or supplied through Crane’s supply-house distribution network to refineries, chemical plants, power plants, shipyards, and municipal water and steam utilities.
Workers Exposed
Litigation records allegedly describe exposure among industrial engine mechanics and pipefitters cutting Cranite sheet on the bench with knives and templates, engine rebuilders and millwrights breaking Crane valve bonnet and body flange gaskets, machine shop workers dry-scraping flange faces after gasket failure, marine engine mechanics servicing Crane valves and piping shipboard in engine rooms, and gasket-set assemblers at Crane distribution branches who cut and packaged Cranite blanks.