Combustion Engineering — Windsor Site in Windsor CT

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that they were allegedly exposed to asbestos while working at the Combustion Engineering Windsor Site in Windsor, Connecticut. For the full corporate summary, see the Combustion Engineering manufacturer page.

Plant Description and Operating Era

The Windsor CT site served as Combustion Engineering’s corporate headquarters and as the home of its Nuclear Power Systems division from the company’s 1912 founding through the 2000 divestiture wave (ABB acquired CE in 1990; the nuclear division passed through ABB, then Alstom, and ultimately to General Electric / GE-Hitachi). The Windsor campus housed engineering, design, R&D laboratories, nuclear steam supply system (NSSS) fabrication support, hot cell testing, and heavy manufacturing bays for utility boiler and pressurized-water-reactor component work. At peak, the Windsor site allegedly employed several thousand engineering, production, and skilled-trade workers and remains an active industrial and office complex under successor ownership today.

Premises ACM Narrative

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1980 Windsor premises involved asbestos through:

  • Asbestos-refractory brick, castable, and monolithic in boiler firebox, superheater header, and reheat furnace linings
  • Asbestos-fabric expansion joints and asbestos-block hot-side lagging on boiler drums, superheaters, and economizers
  • Asbestos pipe covering on process steam mains and utility lines
  • Asbestos sheet gaskets at pressure vessel, boiler drum, and steam header flanges
  • Asbestos-fabric radiography shielding cloth for pressure vessel NDT
  • Asbestos-block heat-treat furnace lagging
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on structural steel (pre-1973 EPA ban)
  • Nuclear division: asbestos-fabric reactor shield insulation, asbestos-fabric reactor vessel head flange insulation, asbestos-packed reactor coolant pump shaft seals

Workers Exposed

HFIAW Insulators, UA Pipefitters, IBB Boilermakers (ASME pressure-vessel hot-work), BAC Bricklayers (refractory), IBEW Electricians, Ironworkers, Millwrights, and USW steelworkers allegedly worked around asbestos-containing materials at the Windsor site.

If You Worked at Combustion Engineering Windsor

If you or a family member worked at the Combustion Engineering Windsor Site in Windsor, Connecticut before 1980 and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.

The Combustion Engineering 524(g) Trust (2005) may provide a legal remedy for asbestos-related injury from CE products and premises.

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