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Did you work with Crane Deming Centrifugal Pumps (Industrial, Municipal, Boiler-Feed)? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Crane Deming Centrifugal Pumps (Industrial, Municipal, Boiler-Feed), sold from around 1880 until the 1980s. Crane Deming Pumps (Salem, OH) — a Crane Co. subsidiary — manufactured centrifugal pumps for industrial, municipal water, boiler-feed, and HVAC building-service applications. Plaintiffs allege Crane Deming pumps shipped with asbestos packing and gaskets. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: asbestos pump packing, asbestos casing and flange gaskets, asbestos motor insulation. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Pipefitters, Plant millwrights, Water-utility operators, and Power-plant operators. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Crane Deming Centrifugal Pumps (Industrial, Municipal, Boiler-Feed) 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 Deming Pumps, Inc. (Salem, Ohio) — a long-running subsidiary of Crane Co. — manufactured through the asbestos era a major U.S. line of centrifugal pumps for industrial process, municipal water and wastewater, boiler-feed, condensate-return, and commercial HVAC building-service applications. Crane Deming pumps were sold through plumbing-and-mechanical wholesalers nationally and were a standard specification in U.S. municipal water utilities and commercial-building chilled-water and condensate systems.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Crane Deming pumps were specified with asbestos pump packing at the stuffing box, asbestos casing and flange gaskets, and asbestos motor and bearing-housing insulation. Pipefitters, plant millwrights, water-utility operators, and HVAC service mechanics who repacked, rebuilt, and serviced Crane Deming pumps disturbed asbestos as a routine part of the maintenance trade.
Crane Co. / Crane Deming has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Pipefitters (UA Local members)
- Plant millwrights and pump-shop technicians
- Water-utility and wastewater-plant operators
- Power-plant boiler-feed and condensate operators
- HVAC service mechanics