Was Foxboro Company — Industrial Process Instrumentation and Control Valves with Alleged asbestos documented in litigation?

Foxboro Company — Industrial Process Instrumentation and Control Valves with Alleged is documented in public asbestos litigation records as a manufacturer whose products contained asbestos during the mid-twentieth century. Workers in industrial facilities, power plants, refineries, shipyards, and commercial construction who handled or worked near these products may have experienced occupational exposure.

Which trades had the most exposure?

Pipe coverers and insulators, pipefitters, boilermakers, millwrights, and maintenance workers are among the trades most frequently documented in asbestos exposure claims. Workers who cut, fitted, or removed asbestos-containing products — and those working in close proximity during that work — typically had the highest fiber concentrations.

How long do workers have to file an asbestos claim?

Statutes of limitations for asbestos personal injury claims vary by state, typically ranging from one to five years from the date of an asbestos-related diagnosis. The clock generally starts at diagnosis, not exposure — mesothelioma can have a latency period of 20 to 50 years. An asbestos attorney can identify the deadlines that apply to your specific situation.

Can workers file claims related to Foxboro Company — Industrial Process Instrumentation and Control Valves with Alleged asbestos exposure?

Yes. Workers diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestos-related lung cancer, or asbestosis after exposure to Foxboro Company — Industrial Process Instrumentation and Control Valves with Alleged products may pursue claims through civil litigation. An experienced asbestos attorney can assess available defendants, applicable trust funds from co-defendants, and the states where claims can be filed most effectively.

Can family members file secondary exposure claims?

Spouses, children, and household members who developed asbestos-related disease through contact with contaminated work clothing brought home by an exposed worker may be eligible for secondary (household) exposure claims. Wrongful-death claims can also be filed by surviving family members of workers who died from asbestos-related disease.

Gaskets

Foxboro Pneumatic and Electronic Transmitters, Recorders, Controllers, and E-Series / Stabilflo Control Valves for Refinery, Chemical, Power, and Marine Service

⚖ Litigation Recordc. 1940s-1980sAlleged compressed asbestos-sheet gaskets at transmitter housings, manifold flanges, and control-valve body-bonnet joints; alleged asbestos-containing stem packing in Foxboro control-valve stuffing boxes; alleged asbestos thermal insulation on hot-service instrument lines and control-valve bodies

Overview Product Facts Trades

Litigation Record: Information below reflects allegations in publicly filed asbestos litigation — plaintiff allegations, not findings of fact.

Product Description

The Foxboro Company (Foxboro, Massachusetts) was through the asbestos era the dominant American supplier of industrial process instrumentation and control-loop hardware — pneumatic (3–15 psi) and electronic (4–20 mA) pressure, differential-pressure, level, and flow transmitters; strip-chart and circular recorders and pneumatic controllers; orifice-plate flow elements and DP flowmeter assemblies; and, through the Foxboro Valve Division, the E-Series and Stabilflo lines of pneumatically actuated control valves used to modulate steam, hot oil, refinery process streams, boiler-feedwater, and chemical process flows.

Foxboro instrumentation and control valves are named in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation. Plaintiffs alleged that Foxboro process instrumentation and control valves were specified with:

Compressed asbestos-sheet gaskets at transmitter housings, differential-pressure manifold flanges, orifice-flange taps, and control-valve body-to-bonnet joints.
Asbestos-containing stem packing — braided chrysotile packing installed in Foxboro control-valve stuffing boxes against rising plug stems.
Asbestos-containing thermal insulation applied to hot-service instrument lines, orifice-flange assemblies, and control-valve bodies on high-temperature steam and hot-oil service.

Workers Exposed

Instrument mechanics and I&C technicians removing Foxboro transmitters and controllers for calibration, replacing transmitter and manifold gaskets, and disturbing orifice-flange gasketing during flowmeter rebuilds.
Pipefitters and steamfitters installing and tying in Foxboro control-valve bodies on process piping and repacking control-valve stuffing boxes.
Refinery process operators and turnaround maintenance crews pulling Foxboro control-valve bonnets during scheduled refinery turnarounds.
Power-plant control-room mechanics servicing Foxboro boiler-feedwater and steam-throttling control valves on utility service.
Chemical- and pharmaceutical-plant maintenance mechanics overhauling Foxboro E-Series and Stabilflo control valves on hot and corrosive service.

If You Worked With Foxboro Instrumentation and Control Valves

If you installed, calibrated, or rebuilt Foxboro Company transmitters, recorders, controllers, or E-Series / Stabilflo control valves during the asbestos era — and have since been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related illness — you may have legal rights.

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Product Facts

Trade NameFoxboro Pneumatic and Electronic Transmitters, Recorders, Controllers, and E-Series / Stabilflo Control Valves for Refinery, Chemical, Power, and Marine Service

Years Producedc. 1940s-1980s

Asbestos ContentAlleged compressed asbestos-sheet gaskets at transmitter housings, manifold flanges, and control-valve body-bonnet joints; alleged asbestos-containing stem packing in Foxboro control-valve stuffing boxes; alleged asbestos thermal insulation on hot-service instrument lines and control-valve bodies

CategoryGaskets Gaskets-Packing

Trust FundNo active trust

Exposed Trades & Occupations

Instrument mechanicsI&C techniciansPipefittersRefinery process operatorsPower-plant control-room mechanics

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