Premises Description

Salt River Project (SRP), organized in 1903 as the Salt River Valley Water Users’ Association and today one of the largest public power utilities in the United States, serves the Phoenix metropolitan area and central Arizona. Its historic generating fleet includes the Coronado Generating Station (coal, St. Johns AZ), participating interests in the Navajo Generating Station (coal, Page AZ), the Four Corners plant (coal, Fruitland NM), and the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (Wintersburg AZ), together with a chain of Salt River hydroelectric stations at Roosevelt, Horse Mesa, Mormon Flat, and Stewart Mountain dams and a metropolitan Phoenix substation and distribution network.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1985 SRP-owned and co-owned generating stations contained asbestos-containing thermal insulation on boiler headers, superheater and reheater piping, feedwater lines, and turbine casings; asbestos-containing gaskets and packing in valves, pumps, and condenser waterboxes; asbestos millboard and transite panels in switchgear rooms and transformer vaults across SRP’s Phoenix-area substation network; and asbestos-refractory brick in Coronado, Navajo, and Four Corners combustion chambers. Plaintiffs allegedly encountered airborne asbestos during outages, retubes, gasket replacements, and insulation tear-out and re-lagging.

Workers Exposed

Plaintiffs alleged that station operators, boiler mechanics, pipefitters, insulators, electricians, and millwrights working at SRP-owned and co-owned Arizona generating stations and Phoenix substations from approximately 1940 through the mid-1980s were exposed to respirable asbestos fibers when boiler lagging was cut, gaskets were scraped from flange faces, valve packing was repacked, and refractory brick was chipped and replaced. Outage contractors and helpers were also allegedly exposed.

If You Worked With SRP Facilities and Have Been Diagnosed With Mesothelioma

If you or a family member worked at Coronado, Navajo, Four Corners, Palo Verde, an SRP hydroelectric station, or an SRP Phoenix substation and later received a mesothelioma or other asbestos-related diagnosis, you may have legal claims against premises owners, insulation contractors, and asbestos-product manufacturers. Free, confidential case evaluation: Speak with O’Brien Law Firm — (314) 936-2956