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Did you work with Nine Mile Point Nuclear (Co-Owned), Huntley (Tonawanda NY), Dunkirk, Oswego (Oswego NY), Albany, and Roseton Fossil Stations; Niagara-Basin Hydroelectric Fleet; Upstate NY Substations and Gas Distribution? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Nine Mile Point Nuclear (Co-Owned), Huntley (Tonawanda NY), Dunkirk, Oswego (Oswego NY), Albany, and Roseton Fossil Stations; Niagara-Basin Hydroelectric Fleet; Upstate NY Substations and Gas Distribution, made by Niagara Mohawk, sold from 1890 until 1985. Plaintiffs allegedly developed mesothelioma and asbestos-related disease after working at Niagara Mohawk Power (today National Grid) coal-fired, nuclear, and hydroelectric generating stations, substations, and asbestos-cement gas mains across upstate New York where asbestos pipe covering, block insulation, gaskets, packing, transite, and refractory were routinely disturbed during maintenance and outage work. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: pREMISES PATHWAY - asbestos pipe covering on high-pressure steam headers, superheater and reheater piping, feedwater lines, and turbine casings at Huntley (Tonawanda NY), Dunkirk (Dunkirk NY), Oswego (Oswego NY), Albany Steam Station, and Nine Mile Point Nuclear (Scriba NY); asbestos block and blanket insulation on boiler walls, economizers, and reactor-auxiliary piping; asbestos-containing gaskets and packing in valves, pumps, and condenser waterboxes; asbestos millboard, transite panels, and cloth in switchgear rooms and transformer firewalls at Niagara Mohawk substations; asbestos-cement (transite) gas distribution mains in the Niagara Mohawk gas system; refractory brick in coal-boiler combustion zones — disturbed during outage tear-out, retube work, refueling outages, gasket replacement, gas-main cut-and-cap, and insulator lagging repair by pipefitters, boilermakers, insulators, electricians, gas-service workers, and millwrights. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Insulators, Pipefitters, Boilermakers, and Electricians. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Nine Mile Point Nuclear (Co-Owned), Huntley (Tonawanda NY), Dunkirk, Oswego (Oswego NY), Albany, and Roseton Fossil Stations; Niagara-Basin Hydroelectric Fleet; Upstate NY Substations and Gas Distribution 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.
Premises Description
Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, formed in 1950 from the merger of Niagara Hudson Power, Central New York Power, and predecessor systems and today operating as part of National Grid USA, historically served the upstate New York service territory from Buffalo across the Southern Tier and Central New York to Albany and the Mohawk Valley. Its generating fleet included the Huntley (Tonawanda NY) and Dunkirk (Dunkirk NY) coal stations, the Oswego Harbor Power oil-fired plant, the Albany Steam Station, a large participating share in the Nine Mile Point Nuclear complex (Scriba NY), and an extensive Niagara-basin hydroelectric fleet. Niagara Mohawk also operated a combined gas distribution system across upstate New York that historically included asbestos-cement (transite) mains and service pipe.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1985 Niagara Mohawk generating stations contained asbestos-containing thermal insulation on boiler headers, superheater and reheater piping, feedwater lines, turbine casings, and reactor-auxiliary steam piping; asbestos-containing gaskets and packing in valves, pumps, and condenser waterboxes; asbestos millboard, transite panels, and cloth in switchgear rooms and transformer firewalls at Niagara Mohawk substations; asbestos-cement mains in the Niagara Mohawk gas system; and asbestos-refractory brick in Huntley and Dunkirk combustion chambers. Plaintiffs allegedly encountered airborne asbestos during scheduled outages, refueling outages at Nine Mile Point, gasket replacements, gas-main cut-and-cap operations, and insulation tear-out and re-lagging.
Workers Exposed
Plaintiffs alleged that station operators, boiler mechanics, pipefitters, insulators, electricians, millwrights, and gas-distribution workers at Niagara Mohawk plants, substations, and along the gas system from approximately 1940 through the mid-1980s were exposed to respirable asbestos fibers when boiler lagging was cut, gaskets were scraped from flange faces, valve packing was repacked, refractory brick was chipped, and asbestos-cement gas mains were sawed, chipped, or broken during service work.