Product Description

Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC) closed-circuit cooling towers and evaporative condensers allegedly used corrugated asbestos-cement drift eliminator sheets stacked above the fill pack to intercept water droplets in the exhaust airstream. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, the cement drift eliminators weathered over years of continuous wet service, developed friable edges, and released respirable fibers when service technicians pulled the eliminator racks for annual inspection and replacement. BAC units were widely installed in hospitals, universities, food processing plants, and commercial HVAC systems.

Workers Exposed

Cooling tower service technicians, HVAC service technicians, building maintenance mechanics, and hospital and university plant operators are allegedly the workers most commonly identified in litigation records as having removed and replaced BAC asbestos-cement drift eliminators during annual outages and scheduled overhauls.