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Did you work with Sturtevant Mill Company asbestos-packed raw-meal pulverizer and cement-mill shaft seals with asbestos-fabric mill-body lagging? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Sturtevant Mill Company asbestos-packed raw-meal pulverizer and cement-mill shaft seals with asbestos-fabric mill-body lagging, sold from the 1940s until the 1980s. Plaintiffs allegedly identified Sturtevant Mill Company asbestos-packed pulverizer and cement-mill shaft seals as sources of cement plant asbestos exposure. Sturtevant raw-meal pulverizers and cement mills allegedly used asbestos rope packing at the shaft seals and asbestos-fabric lagging over the mill body to control heat and dust. Millwrights and mill operators allegedly cut, repacked, and replaced these materials during grinding-line service. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Raw-meal grinding mill operators and helpers, Cement plant millwrights and mechanical maintenance, Cement plant laborers (dust cleanup, bagging house), and Insulators on kiln shells, preheater cyclones, and burner hoods. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Sturtevant Mill Company asbestos-packed raw-meal pulverizer and cement-mill shaft seals with asbestos-fabric mill-body lagging 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
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Sturtevant Mill Company — a long-standing Boston-area supplier of pulverizers, ring-roll mills, and air classifiers to U.S. cement plants — furnished grinding equipment whose shaft seals allegedly used asbestos rope packing, and whose mill bodies allegedly carried asbestos-fabric external lagging to limit radiant heat and dust escape.
According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, the packing was allegedly cut to length and repacked during scheduled outages, and the lagging was allegedly removed and re-applied during mill-body inspections.
Workers Exposed
- Raw-meal grinding mill operators and helpers
- Millwrights repacking mill shaft seals
- Laborers assigned to mill-house dust cleanup
- Insulators re-lagging mill bodies
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