Foster Wheeler — Dansville Works in Dansville NY

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 Foster Wheeler Dansville Works in Dansville NY. For the full corporate summary, see the Foster Wheeler manufacturer page.

Plant Description and Operating Era

The Foster Wheeler Dansville Works operated in Livingston County in western New York as a boiler and heat-exchanger fabrication plant within the Foster Wheeler manufacturing network during the twentieth-century asbestos era. The Dansville site produced Code-stamped watertube boiler modules, feedwater heaters, deaerators, and packaged steam-generation equipment that fed utility, refinery, and industrial customers across the Northeast. The plant remained an active Foster Wheeler shop through the postwar boiler and process-heater buildup.

Premises ACM Narrative

At the Foster Wheeler Dansville Works during the U.S. asbestos era (approximately 1920s-1980), plaintiffs allegedly encountered:

  • Asbestos-refractory brick, castable, and monolithic gunning cement in boiler firebox and reheat furnace linings
  • Asbestos-fabric expansion joints on boiler steam drums, superheater headers, and process piping
  • Asbestos-block hot-side lagging on manufacturing furnaces and heat-treat ovens
  • Asbestos pipe covering on steam mains and process piping throughout the manufacturing bays
  • Asbestos sheet gaskets at pressure vessel, boiler drum, and steam header flanges
  • Asbestos-fabric electrical arc chute plates in plant switchgear
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on structural steel (pre-1973 EPA ban)
  • Asbestos-fabric welder-shop torch pads and burn-hood curtains during pressure-vessel welding

Workers Exposed

  • HFIAW Insulators — pipe covering and block insulation
  • UA Pipefitters — flange bolt-up
  • IBB Boilermakers — pressure vessel and boiler drum welding, refractory installation, ASME hot-work
  • BAC Bricklayers — refractory relining
  • IBEW Electricians — switchgear and motor control work
  • Ironworkers — structural fabrication
  • Millwrights — heavy machinery installation

If You Worked at Foster Wheeler Dansville Works

If you or a family member worked at the Foster Wheeler Dansville Works in Dansville NY — or any other Foster Wheeler site — 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