UA Pipefitters Local 45 — St. Joseph, MO

Local 45 of the United Association of Plumbers, Pipefitters, Steamfitters and Service Mechanics (UA) organizes the pipefitters, steamfitters, and plumbers trade in the St. Joseph, MO jurisdiction. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that UA Local 45 members were exposed to asbestos-containing materials at industrial, institutional, and construction jobsites across the local jurisdiction throughout the U.S. asbestos era (approximately 1930s-1980).

UA Pipefitters Trade — Asbestos Exposure Overview

Pipefitters, steamfitters, and plumbers in the United Association (UA) are the U.S. trade responsible for installing, welding, and maintaining process piping, steam piping, boiler feedwater lines, HVAC hydronics, plumbing systems, and refrigeration piping across power plants, refineries, chemical plants, steel mills, pulp and paper mills, food processing, breweries, hospitals, universities, commercial buildings, and shipyards. Across the U.S. asbestos era, plaintiffs alleged that UA members were exposed to airborne chrysotile asbestos on a daily basis — from asbestos pipe covering that they cut, re-cut, sawed, and disturbed at every fitting and every valve, from asbestos sheet gaskets they broke at every flange, and from asbestos-packed valve stems they repacked at every leak.

UA members allegedly worked in direct contact with asbestos pipe covering (Kaylo, Aircell, Unibestos, Marinite pipe insulation) on steam mains + process piping + boiler feedwater + condensate lines, asbestos sheet gaskets (Garlock Blue-Gard, Flexitallic spiral wound, John Crane, Chesterton, Crane Composition, McCord, Fel-Pro) at every flange bolt-up, asbestos-packed valve stems (John Crane, Chesterton, Duriron/Durco, Fisher Controls, Masoneilan, Powell, Watts, Kunkle) on every leaking valve, asbestos-fabric expansion joints on steam ducts + hot process piping, asbestos-fabric welder-shop torch pads during pipe cutting and hot work, and asbestos-refractory in boiler mud drums, boiler waterwalls, and steam header refractory during pipe fitting into brickwork.

Documented ACM Product Vectors Named in UA Litigation

Products from AP defendant manufacturers that plaintiffs alleged were used, installed, or otherwise present at UA Local 45 jobsites during the asbestos era:

If You Are a Retired UA Pipefitters Local 45 Member

If you or a family member worked as a pipefitters, steamfitters, and plumber — including as an apprentice, journeyman, foreman, or shop supervisor — under UA Local 45 in the St. Joseph, MO jurisdiction during the asbestos era, and have since been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestos lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.

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