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Did you work with Mesa Allyl Plastics for Electronic, Electrical, and Aerospace Missile Insulators? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Mesa Allyl Plastics for Electronic, Electrical, and Aerospace Missile Insulators, made by Mesa Plastics, sold from around 1955 until the 1980s. Mesa Plastics Company was founded by Felix Karas in 1955 to pioneer allyl plastic (DAP / CR-39 diallyl phthalate) materials for electronic, electrical, and aerospace applications. The DuBois 1972 volume credits Mesa Plastics with filling 'an important gap in the missile program.' Plaintiffs allege Mesa allyl plastics contained asbestos reinforcement. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: asbestos fiber reinforcement in allyl-resin (CR-39 / DAP) molding compounds. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Electrical workers, Aerospace fabricators, and Electronic-component plant workers. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Mesa Allyl Plastics for Electronic, Electrical, and Aerospace Missile Insulators 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
Mesa Plastics Company (founded 1955 by Felix Karas) was through the late asbestos era a principal U.S. pioneer of allyl plastic (diallyl phthalate / DAP / CR-39) molding compounds for electronic, electrical, and aerospace applications. The DuBois “Plastics History U.S.A.” (1972) volume documents that the FMC-supplied allyl plastics introduced in 1955 enabled Mesa Plastics under Felix Karas to develop “very precise and highly technical applications” — specifically the precision insulators used in the U.S. missile program of the 1950s-1960s.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Mesa Plastics allyl molding compounds were specified through the asbestos era with asbestos fiber reinforcement for thermal stability, dimensional precision, and arc-tracking resistance in critical electronic, electrical, and aerospace missile-program applications. Compound molders at Mesa Plastics and at downstream aerospace and electronic-component fabrication shops who handled Mesa asbestos-filled allyl products were exposed to airborne asbestos fibers.
Mesa Plastics Company has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Electrical workers servicing Mesa-molded precision electrical insulators
- Aerospace fabricators working Mesa allyl-plastic missile-program components
- Electronic-component plant workers at downstream electronic-equipment assembly plants
- Phenolic / allyl compound molders at Mesa Plastics
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