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Did you work with Miehle Sheet-Fed Presses? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Miehle Sheet-Fed Presses, made by Miehle Goss Dexter, sold from the 1920s until the 1980s. Miehle-Goss-Dexter was the dominant U.S. supplier of commercial sheet-fed presses, large newspaper web presses, and bindery equipment. Plaintiffs allege presses and bindery equipment shipped with asbestos-insulated drying ovens, heated rollers, and steam systems. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: drying-oven block insulation, heated-roller gaskets, electrical insulation, steam-piping insulation. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Press operators, Web-press operators, Bindery operators, and Print-shop machinists. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Miehle Sheet-Fed Presses 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
Miehle-Goss-Dexter (formed by the consolidation of Miehle Printing Press & Manufacturing Company of Chicago, Goss Printing Press Company of Chicago, and Dexter Folder Company of Pearl River, New York) was through the mid-20th century the dominant U.S. supplier of commercial sheet-fed offset presses (Miehle line), large newspaper web presses (Goss line), and bindery equipment including folders and stitchers (Dexter line). Miehle, Goss, and Dexter presses ran in nearly every major U.S. newspaper plant, commercial book printer, and magazine printer of the asbestos era.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Miehle-Goss-Dexter presses were specified with asbestos-containing materials across the press line:
- Heat-set ink drying ovens insulated with asbestos block and paper (350°F+ ovens running in-line with the web)
- Heated impression and ink rollers with asbestos gasket material
- Electrical wire insulation on press motors, controls, and drive systems
- Steam-piping insulation on plant utility connections to presses
- Boiler insulation on integrated press-plant heat plants
Miehle-Goss-Dexter has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Sheet-fed press operators (Miehle)
- Newspaper web-press operators (Goss)
- Bindery operators (Dexter folders, stitchers, trimmers)
- Press-plant machinists and electricians
- Plant pipefitters on steam-heated ink systems
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