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Did you work with Garlock Blue-Gard 3000 Sheet Gasket? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Garlock Blue-Gard 3000 Sheet Gasket, made by Garlock Sealing Technologies, sold from the 1960s until the 1980s. Garlock Blue-Gard 3000 (Style 3000) compressed sheet gasket is alleged, according to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, to have contained chrysotile asbestos fiber in an SBR binder, cut into flange gaskets for refinery, chemical, power, and marine service. Chrysotile asbestos fiber in an SBR binder, allegedly used in Blue-Gard 3000 (Style 3000) compressed sheet gasket stock. 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 Garlock Blue-Gard 3000 Sheet Gasket 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
Garlock Sealing Technologies is alleged in publicly filed asbestos litigation records to have manufactured Blue-Gard 3000 (Style 3000) compressed sheet gasket stock containing chrysotile asbestos fiber bonded with a styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) binder. From the 1960s into the 1980s, Blue-Gard 3000 was allegedly Garlock’s flagship general-service compressed asbestos sheet, cut into flange gaskets on refinery piping, chemical-plant process lines, boiler and turbine auxiliary systems, cooling-water and steam lines, and marine engine-room flanges throughout the U.S. Navy and merchant fleet.
Workers Exposed
Court filings allegedly describe exposure among industrial engine mechanics and pipefitters cutting Blue-Gard 3000 sheet on shop benches with knives, punches, and gasket cutters; engine rebuilders and millwrights installing and breaking Blue-Gard flange gaskets on rotating equipment; machine shop workers wire-brushing flange faces during gasket R&R; marine engine mechanics working shipboard flanges in confined engine rooms; and gasket-set assemblers at Garlock plants who handled asbestos sheet stock during die-cutting operations.
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