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Did you work with GE consumer handheld and bonnet-style hair dryers with asbestos-fabric-lined blower housing and asbestos-fabric heater element mounting pad? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. GE consumer handheld and bonnet-style hair dryers with asbestos-fabric-lined blower housing and asbestos-fabric heater element mounting pad, made by General Electric Company, sold from the 1950s until 1979 (U.S. consumer hair until dryer era ending with the 1979 CPSC voluntary asbestos until hair until dryer recall). Plaintiffs allegedly inhaled asbestos fibers blown directly from the heater-element mounting pad and blower housing lining of GE consumer hair dryers used in salons and homes prior to the 1979 CPSC recall. Asbestos-fabric lining inside the blower housing and asbestos-fabric mounting pad around the resistance-wire heater element in GE consumer hair dryers; airflow through the heated element allegedly entrained fibers directly into the user's breathing zone. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Consumer Users, Cosmetology, and Salon Workers. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around GE consumer handheld and bonnet-style hair dryers with asbestos-fabric-lined blower housing and asbestos-fabric heater element mounting pad 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
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that General Electric Company manufactured and sold consumer hair dryers — both handheld and bonnet-style — whose internal construction allegedly incorporated asbestos-fabric lining inside the blower housing and an asbestos-fabric mounting pad securing the resistance-wire heater element inside the airflow path. The alleged exposure pathway is direct and severe: air pulled through the heater element flowed directly across the asbestos-fabric components and then blew that airstream — carrying entrained asbestos fibers — into the user’s face and scalp with every use.
In April 1979, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall program covering asbestos-containing consumer hair dryers after CPSC testing confirmed fiber release. GE was among the manufacturers whose consumer hair-dryer product lines were implicated in the recall program.
Workers Exposed and Household Consumers
- Daily home consumers — women drying their hair every morning for years or decades before the 1979 recall
- Salon workers and cosmetologists using GE-brand professional and consumer hair dryers on client after client
- Bonnet-dryer salon patrons sitting for extended sessions under GE bonnet dryers
- Household family members in the same room during hair-drying sessions
- GE consumer-appliance factory workers assembling the dryers
- Appliance-repair technicians opening dryer housings to service motors and heating elements
If You Used a GE Consumer Hair Dryer
If you or a family member used a GE-brand consumer or salon hair dryer (handheld or bonnet-style) at any point from the 1950s through the 1979 recall, and were later diagnosed with mesothelioma or another asbestos-related disease, publicly filed litigation has recognized this consumer-inhalation vector.
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