Product and Premises Description

General Electric Company (founded 1892 by merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric; today GE Aerospace, GE Vernova, GE HealthCare after 2024 tri-split; historically headquartered Schenectady NY, later Fairfield CT, today Boston MA) is through the 20th century and today one of the largest U.S. and global industrial manufacturers. GE is among the most heavily-litigated U.S. asbestos defendants.

Product-vector asbestos pathways plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation:

  • GE steam turbines — utility and industrial steam turbines with asbestos casing insulation, lagging, and gasket material
  • GE electric motors and generators — winding insulation, wire insulation, brush and commutator components
  • GE transformers — insulating oil, asbestos-filled phenolic terminal boards, asbestos-insulated wire (GE was one of the four principal U.S. transformer majors)
  • GE locomotives — GE Transportation Systems diesel-electric locomotives (Erie PA) with engine-room and traction-motor asbestos
  • GE electrical switchgear — arc-chute components, phenolic laminate insulation
  • GE appliances — asbestos wiring insulation on GE consumer and commercial appliances

Premises-vector asbestos pathways at GE manufacturing plants:

  • Schenectady NY — historic GE headquarters and turbine/generator plant
  • Erie PA — GE Transportation Systems locomotive plant
  • Lynn MA — GE Aircraft Engine plant
  • Louisville KY — GE Appliance Park
  • Cincinnati OH — GE Aviation
  • Pittsfield MA — GE Transformer plant (Pittsfield PCB Superfund site)
  • Rome GA, Hendersonville NC, Fort Wayne IN, Roanoke VA — additional operations
  • All specified through the asbestos era with extensive asbestos-containing plant infrastructure

General Electric Company has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant and Premises Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation on an extremely large scale.

Workers Exposed

  • Power-plant operators working GE steam turbines and generators
  • Electricians (IBEW Local members) servicing GE transformers, motors, and switchgear
  • Locomotive engineers and shop machinists working GE diesel-electric locomotives
  • Aerospace machinists at GE Aircraft Engine Lynn MA and GE Aviation Cincinnati OH
  • IUE / UAW / defense electronics union members at GE plants nationwide
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on GE construction and turnaround crews

If You Worked With GE Equipment or at a GE Plant

If you serviced GE steam turbines, motors, generators, transformers, locomotives, or switchgear during the asbestos era — or worked at a GE manufacturing plant — as an employee or as a dispatched contractor trade worker — and have since been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related illness, you may have legal rights.

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