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Did you work with Foxboro Pneumatic and Electronic Transmitters, Recorders, Controllers, and E-Series? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Foxboro Pneumatic and Electronic Transmitters, Recorders, Controllers, and E-Series, sold from around the 1940s until the 1980s. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Foxboro Company pneumatic and electronic process instrumentation and E-Series / Stabilflo control valves incorporated asbestos-containing gaskets at transmitter and manifold flanges and asbestos stem packing in control-valve stuffing boxes disturbed during routine calibration and rebuild. Alleged compressed asbestos-sheet gaskets at transmitter housings, manifold flanges, and control-valve body-bonnet joints; alleged asbestos-containing stem packing in Foxboro control-valve stuffing boxes; alleged asbestos thermal insulation on hot-service instrument lines and control-valve bodies. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Instrument mechanics, I&C technicians, Pipefitters, and Refinery process operators. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Foxboro Pneumatic and Electronic Transmitters, Recorders, Controllers, and E-Series 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
The Foxboro Company (Foxboro, Massachusetts) was through the asbestos era the dominant American supplier of industrial process instrumentation and control-loop hardware — pneumatic (3–15 psi) and electronic (4–20 mA) pressure, differential-pressure, level, and flow transmitters; strip-chart and circular recorders and pneumatic controllers; orifice-plate flow elements and DP flowmeter assemblies; and, through the Foxboro Valve Division, the E-Series and Stabilflo lines of pneumatically actuated control valves used to modulate steam, hot oil, refinery process streams, boiler-feedwater, and chemical process flows.
Foxboro instrumentation and control valves are named in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation. Plaintiffs alleged that Foxboro process instrumentation and control valves were specified with:
- Compressed asbestos-sheet gaskets at transmitter housings, differential-pressure manifold flanges, orifice-flange taps, and control-valve body-to-bonnet joints.
- Asbestos-containing stem packing — braided chrysotile packing installed in Foxboro control-valve stuffing boxes against rising plug stems.
- Asbestos-containing thermal insulation applied to hot-service instrument lines, orifice-flange assemblies, and control-valve bodies on high-temperature steam and hot-oil service.
Workers Exposed
- Instrument mechanics and I&C technicians removing Foxboro transmitters and controllers for calibration, replacing transmitter and manifold gaskets, and disturbing orifice-flange gasketing during flowmeter rebuilds.
- Pipefitters and steamfitters installing and tying in Foxboro control-valve bodies on process piping and repacking control-valve stuffing boxes.
- Refinery process operators and turnaround maintenance crews pulling Foxboro control-valve bonnets during scheduled refinery turnarounds.
- Power-plant control-room mechanics servicing Foxboro boiler-feedwater and steam-throttling control valves on utility service.
- Chemical- and pharmaceutical-plant maintenance mechanics overhauling Foxboro E-Series and Stabilflo control valves on hot and corrosive service.
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