These products were frequently used in the pipefitting trade and, at that time, these were also made of asbestos. To be perfectly fitted they would need to be ground or sanded to the desired size, and by doing that the air filled with asbestos fibers.
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For manufacturing these types of gaskets, asbestos was heavily used for nearly a century. Even though chrysotile (white asbestos) was used in the majority of cases, crocidolite (blue asbestos) was preferred when the gasket needed to be resistant to acid.
Containing up to 70 percent asbestos in their composition, gaskets were extremely dangerous when they required replacement. Due to being extremely damaged, they needed to be scraped off, and by doing that, asbestos fibers would quickly contaminate the environment. You could have been exposed if:
Yarway Corporation
Flexitallic Gasket Company
Dresser Industries
Johns-Manville
A.W. Chesterton Company
Garlock Sealing Technologies
Uniroyal Holding, Inc.
Armstrong World Industries, Inc.
Borg Warner Automotive
Bell & Gossett Company
John Deere Industrial Equipment Company
North American Rockwell Corporation
Continental Can Company
Norfolk Southern Railway
Sun Oil Co.
Pan American World Airways Inc.
Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings
Occidental Chemical Corporation
Taylor Forge & Pipe Works
Northrop Grumman
Tennessee Valley Authority
Caterpillar Inc.
Continental Steel Corporation
Kelsey-Hayes Company
Textron Inc.
American Crane Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co.
James River Corporation
Wheelabrator Frye Inc.
Rust International Inc.
For more than 20 years, we managed to obtain for the victims of asbestos exposure the compensations required to cover their treatment costs. If you have worked directly with asbestos-containing gaskets, you are entitled to receive reparations from the companies responsible. By filing claims with their asbestos trust funds, we will restore your financial stability after being affected by such medical expenditure.
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