Premises Description

Nabisco / National Biscuit Company has been named as a premises defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation for alleged asbestos exposure at its national network of bakeries, biscuit and cracker plants, and food-processing facilities — including the flagship Chicago Marsh Bakery (later “Nabisco Chicago”), the Fair Lawn NJ plant, Portland OR, Atlanta GA, Houston TX, Richmond VA, and other multi-story bakery complexes.

Nabisco bakeries are heavy industrial food plants: multi-story dough-mixing lofts, long tunnel and band ovens, continuous packaging lines, on-site steam plants, and large ammonia refrigeration systems for ingredient storage and packaging climate control. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1980 Nabisco premises involved asbestos through:

  • Asbestos pipe covering on bakery steam headers, dough-line steam piping, and process feeds
  • Asbestos-lined tunnel ovens, band ovens, cracker ovens, and biscuit ovens, with asbestos rope door seals
  • Asbestos sheet gaskets at oven door frames, steam flanges, and process manways
  • Asbestos block and cork insulation on ammonia refrigeration compressors, chillers, and cold rooms
  • Asbestos rope packing on bakery pumps, valves, and depositors
  • Asbestos refractory and boiler insulation at Nabisco powerhouse steam generators
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on structural steel in multi-story bakery lofts and packaging halls
  • Asbestos electrical panels and arc chutes in bakery motor-control centers

Workers Exposed

Plaintiffs allegedly worked at Nabisco / National Biscuit Company Chicago IL, Fair Lawn NJ, Portland OR, Atlanta GA, Houston TX, Richmond VA, Philadelphia PA, and other bakery plants in trades including:

  • Insulators (HFIAW) applying and removing asbestos pipe covering and block on bakery steam and refrigeration piping
  • Pipefitters (UA) breaking asbestos-gasketed flanges on steam headers and process lines
  • Boilermakers servicing asbestos-refractory-lined bakery powerhouse boilers
  • Millwrights rebuilding oven drives, mixers, and depositors with asbestos packing
  • Oven mechanics repairing asbestos-lined tunnel ovens and replacing asbestos rope door seals
  • Refrigeration mechanics working on ammonia compressors and cork-insulated cold rooms
  • Packaging-line and bakery workers around fireproofed lofts and asbestos-lined ovens
  • Electricians and IBEW workers on bakery switchgear and motor-control centers

If You Worked at Nabisco

If you or a family member worked at a Nabisco / National Biscuit Company bakery or food-processing plant before 1980 and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.

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