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Did you work with Coronado, Navajo (Co-Owned), Four Corners (Co-Owned), and Palo Verde (Co-Owned) Generating Stations; Roosevelt? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Coronado, Navajo (Co-Owned), Four Corners (Co-Owned), and Palo Verde (Co-Owned) Generating Stations; Roosevelt, made by Salt River Project, sold from 1903 until 1985. Plaintiffs allegedly developed mesothelioma and asbestos-related disease after working at Salt River Project (SRP) coal-fired, hydroelectric, and co-owned nuclear generating stations and at Phoenix-area substations 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, superheater and reheater piping, and feedwater lines at the Coronado (St. Johns AZ), Navajo Generating Station (Page AZ, co-owned), Four Corners (Fruitland NM, co-owned), and Palo Verde Nuclear (Wintersburg AZ, co-owned) plants; asbestos block and blanket insulation on boiler walls, economizers, and turbine casings; asbestos-containing gaskets and packing in valves, pumps, and condenser waterboxes; asbestos millboard and transite in switchgear rooms and transformer firewalls at SRP substations across metropolitan Phoenix; refractory brick in coal-boiler combustion zones — disturbed during outage work, retube campaigns, 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 Coronado, Navajo (Co-Owned), Four Corners (Co-Owned), and Palo Verde (Co-Owned) Generating Stations; Roosevelt 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
Salt River Project (SRP), organized in 1903 as the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association and today one of the largest public power utilities in the United States, serves the Phoenix metropolitan area and central Arizona. Its historic generating fleet includes the Coronado Generating Station (coal, St. Johns AZ), participating interests in the Navajo Generating Station (coal, Page AZ), the Four Corners plant (coal, Fruitland NM), and the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (Wintersburg AZ), together with a chain of Salt River hydroelectric stations at Roosevelt, Horse Mesa, Mormon Flat, and Stewart Mountain dams and a metropolitan Phoenix substation and distribution network.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1985 SRP-owned and co-owned generating stations contained asbestos-containing thermal insulation on boiler headers, superheater and reheater piping, feedwater lines, and turbine casings; asbestos-containing gaskets and packing in valves, pumps, and condenser waterboxes; asbestos millboard and transite panels in switchgear rooms and transformer vaults across SRP’s Phoenix-area substation network; and asbestos-refractory brick in Coronado, Navajo, and Four Corners combustion chambers. Plaintiffs allegedly encountered airborne asbestos during outages, retubes, gasket replacements, and insulation tear-out and re-lagging.
Workers Exposed
Plaintiffs alleged that station operators, boiler mechanics, pipefitters, insulators, electricians, and millwrights working at SRP-owned and co-owned Arizona generating stations and Phoenix 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 and helpers were also allegedly exposed.