Product Description
Multiple U.S. small consumer appliance manufacturers — including NuTone (bathroom exhaust fans, hair dryers, home intercoms), Broan (kitchen range hoods, bathroom fans), Whirlpool and Frigidaire (consumer laundry, kitchen, and small appliances), and various other historic consumer appliance brands — allegedly manufactured through the asbestos era hair dryers, home heaters, toasters, popcorn poppers, ranges, and other small consumer appliances with asbestos-insulated heating elements, asbestos electrical wire insulation, and asbestos thermal insulation.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that small consumer appliances of the asbestos era contained asbestos in heating elements and internal insulation and that consumers who routinely used these appliances (particularly hand-held hair dryers used daily over years, and home heaters operated seasonally over decades), beauty salon workers using professional hair dryers, and appliance repair technicians who serviced these products were exposed to airborne asbestos.
NuTone, Broan, Whirlpool, and other historic small-appliance manufacturers have been named as Manufacturer Defendants in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers and Consumers Exposed
- Consumer users of hair dryers, home heaters, toasters, and small appliances (particularly routine hair-dryer users)
- Beauty salon workers using professional hair dryers over multi-decade careers
- Appliance repair technicians servicing consumer appliances
If You Used Asbestos-Insulated Consumer Appliances
If you routinely used consumer hair dryers, home heaters, or small kitchen appliances during the asbestos era — or worked as a beauty salon operator or appliance repair technician — and have since been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related illness — you may have legal rights.
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