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Did you work with Coal-Fired and Hydroelectric Generating Stations, Transmission Substations, and Distribution Facilities Across WA, OR, ID, UT, WY, and Northern CA? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Coal-Fired and Hydroelectric Generating Stations, Transmission Substations, and Distribution Facilities Across WA, OR, ID, UT, WY, and Northern CA, made by Pacificorp, sold from 1910 until 1985. Plaintiffs allegedly developed mesothelioma and asbestos-related disease after working at PacifiCorp / Pacific Power and Light coal-fired generating stations, hydroelectric plants, and substations across Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, and northern California where asbestos pipe covering, block insulation, gaskets, packing, 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 and feedwater lines in coal-fired boiler houses (Jim Bridger WY, Naughton WY, Dave Johnston WY, Hunter UT, Huntington UT, Centralia WA, Boardman-connected OR facilities); asbestos block and blanket insulation on boiler walls and economizers; asbestos-containing gaskets, valve packing, and pump packing in condensate and boiler-feed systems; asbestos millboard and cloth in transformer firewalls and switchgear rooms at substations; refractory brick in coal-boiler combustion zones — disturbed during outage tear-out, retube work, gasket replacement, and insulator lagging repair by pipefitters, boilermakers, insulators, electricians, 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 Coal-Fired and Hydroelectric Generating Stations, Transmission Substations, and Distribution Facilities Across WA, OR, ID, UT, WY, and Northern CA 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
PacifiCorp (operating as Pacific Power in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain Power in the Intermountain West) traces its roots to Pacific Power & Light Company (organized 1910) and Utah Power & Light Company (1912), merged and reorganized through the twentieth century into one of the largest investor-owned utilities in the western United States. Its historic generating fleet included coal-fired plants at Jim Bridger and Naughton and Dave Johnston in Wyoming, Hunter and Huntington in Utah, and Centralia in Washington, together with an extensive hydroelectric network on the North Umpqua, Lewis, Klamath, and Bear Rivers, plus hundreds of transmission substations across six states.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1985 PacifiCorp / Pacific Power generating stations and substations contained extensive asbestos-containing thermal insulation on boiler headers, feedwater piping, superheater and reheater sections, economizers, and steam turbines; asbestos-containing gaskets and packing in valves, pumps, and condenser waterboxes; asbestos millboard and transite panels in switchgear rooms and transformer vaults; and asbestos-refractory brick in coal-fired combustion chambers. Plaintiffs allegedly encountered airborne asbestos during scheduled outages, boiler retubes, gasket replacements, and insulation tear-out and re-lagging performed by in-house crews and outside insulation contractors.
Workers Exposed
Plaintiffs alleged that station operators, boiler mechanics, pipefitters, insulators, electricians, and millwrights working at PacifiCorp coal-fired plants and substations 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, and refractory brick was chipped and replaced. Outage contractors, apprentices, and helpers who cleaned the boiler house during and after these operations were also allegedly exposed.