Product Description
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Bendix Home Laundry Company — later operated under the Avco and Philco-Bendix corporate umbrellas — manufactured residential clothes dryers whose door gaskets and internal drum heat shields allegedly contained asbestos fabric and asbestos millboard. The door gasket sealed the rotating drum against the loading door and was subject to constant thermal cycling and mechanical wear; the millboard heat shield allegedly insulated the drum housing from the gas or electric heating element.
Publicly filed litigation has alleged that decades of consumer use, plus repair and replacement of the gasket and shield by appliance-service technicians, allegedly released asbestos fibers into the residential laundry area and into the ambient air breathed by homemakers, service techs, and household family members.
Workers Exposed and Household Consumers
- Homemakers loading, unloading, and cleaning Bendix consumer clothes dryers over years of daily household use
- Consumers self-servicing or replacing Bendix dryer door gaskets and heat shields (a common at-home repair)
- Appliance-repair technicians dismantling Bendix dryers to replace worn gaskets, drum bearings, and heating elements
- Bendix / Avco / Philco-Bendix production-line workers at the appliance factories
- Retail appliance-sales and delivery workers unboxing and installing new units
- Household family members — spouses and children — in laundry rooms and adjoining spaces
If You Used or Serviced Bendix Consumer Clothes Dryers
If you or a family member used a Bendix, Avco, or Philco-Bendix consumer clothes dryer at home, or worked as an appliance-repair technician on these dryers, and were later diagnosed with mesothelioma or another asbestos-related disease, publicly filed litigation has recognized Bendix appliance gaskets as a consumer-vector defendant.
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