Babcock & Wilcox — Beaver Falls Tube Works in Beaver Falls PA

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 Babcock & Wilcox Beaver Falls Tube Works in Beaver Falls PA. For the full corporate summary, see the Babcock & Wilcox manufacturer page.

Plant Description and Operating Era

The Babcock & Wilcox Beaver Falls Tube Works has operated as the company’s principal seamless-tubing plant since approximately 1897, producing high-pressure boiler tubes, superheater tubes, and reheater tubes used in nearly every B&W watertube boiler installation. The Beaver County site combined melting, piercing, and rolling operations that produced Code-grade carbon-steel and alloy tubing for utility, marine, refinery, and nuclear customers throughout the twentieth century. Beaver Falls tube-making remained active through the B&W bankruptcy era and continues under successor ownership today.

Premises ACM Narrative

At the Babcock & Wilcox Beaver Falls Tube Works during the U.S. asbestos era (approximately 1920s-1980), plaintiffs allegedly encountered:

  • Asbestos-refractory brick, castable, and monolithic gunning cement in melting-furnace, reheat furnace, and heat-treat 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 mill switchgear
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on structural steel (pre-1973 EPA ban)
  • Asbestos-fabric welder-shop torch pads and burn-hood curtains during tube welding
  • Asbestos-refractory ladle mud during casting operations
  • Asbestos-cement roll-cooling and mill-drape materials on tube-mill stands

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
  • USW steelworkers — melting and rolling operations
  • Millwrights — heavy machinery installation

If You Worked at Babcock & Wilcox Beaver Falls Tube Works

If you or a family member worked at the Babcock & Wilcox Beaver Falls Tube Works in Beaver Falls PA — or any other Babcock & Wilcox 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) 237-3332

Mesothelioma Resources for Pennsylvania Workers

Occupational and premises asbestos exposure like this is a leading cause of mesothelioma, often diagnosed decades later. If you or a family member worked here: