Combustion Engineering — Air Preheater Wellsville NY Plant

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were allegedly exposed to asbestos while working at the Combustion Engineering Air Preheater / Wellsville manufacturing plant in Wellsville, New York. For the full corporate summary, see the Combustion Engineering manufacturer page.

Plant Description and Operating Era

The Wellsville NY plant allegedly operated as the manufacturing home of the Air Preheater Company, a Combustion Engineering subsidiary that produced Ljungström-style regenerative and tubular air preheaters for utility and industrial boilers. The plant fabricated heat-transfer element baskets, rotor structures, cold-end and hot-end sealing systems, and housing sections. Wellsville production supplied CE-erected utility boilers and third-party retrofit projects across the U.S. utility fleet from the mid-twentieth century onward and continues under successor ownership after the CE / ABB / Alstom / GE transitions.

Premises ACM Narrative

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1980 Wellsville premises involved asbestos through:

  • Asbestos-refractory brick, castable, and monolithic in boiler firebox, superheater header, and reheat furnace linings
  • Asbestos-fabric expansion joints and asbestos-block hot-side lagging on boiler drums, superheaters, economizers, and air-preheater hot-end housings
  • Asbestos pipe covering on process steam mains and utility lines
  • Asbestos sheet gaskets at pressure vessel, boiler drum, and steam header flanges
  • Asbestos-fabric radiography shielding cloth for pressure vessel NDT
  • Asbestos-block heat-treat furnace lagging
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on structural steel (pre-1973 EPA ban)
  • Asbestos-fabric and asbestos-cord air-preheater rotor sealing strips at cold- and hot-end sector plates

Workers Exposed

HFIAW Insulators, UA Pipefitters, IBB Boilermakers (ASME pressure-vessel hot-work), BAC Bricklayers (refractory), IBEW Electricians, Ironworkers, Millwrights, and USW steelworkers allegedly worked around asbestos-containing materials at the Wellsville plant.

If You Worked at Combustion Engineering Air Preheater Wellsville

If you or a family member worked at the Combustion Engineering Air Preheater plant in Wellsville, New York before 1980 and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.

The Combustion Engineering 524(g) Trust (2005) may provide additional compensation for asbestos-related injury from CE products and premises.

Free, confidential case evaluation: Speak with O’Brien Law Firm — (314) 936-2956