IBEW Electricians Local 704 — Dubuque, IA

Local 704 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) organizes the electrical workers, inside wiremen, and outside linemen trade in the Dubuque, IA jurisdiction. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that IBEW Local 704 members were exposed to asbestos-containing materials at industrial, institutional, and construction jobsites across the local jurisdiction throughout the U.S. asbestos era (approximately 1930s-1980).

IBEW Electricians Trade — Asbestos Exposure Overview

Electrical workers in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) are the U.S. trade responsible for installing, wiring, and maintaining electrical systems across industrial plants, commercial buildings, hospitals, refineries, chemical plants, steel mills, power plants, and utility distribution systems. IBEW was chartered in St. Louis, Missouri in November 1891 at Henry Miller’s founding convention — Local 1 St. Louis holds the historic founding jurisdiction and has continuously organized the St. Louis electrical trade since. Across the U.S. asbestos era, plaintiffs alleged that IBEW members were exposed to airborne chrysotile asbestos every time they worked inside switchgear cabinets, motor control centers, power transformers, and load contactors that contained asbestos-fabric arc chute plates.

IBEW members allegedly worked in direct contact with asbestos-fabric arc chute plates + molded De-Ion arc quenching plates (Westinghouse De-Ion, GE Magne-Blast, Federal Pacific FPE, Allen-Bradley, Square D Model 6 MCC, I-T-E Imperial HK, Cutler-Hammer/Eaton) in every switchgear installation and rework; asbestos-fabric electrical winding insulation on motors, generators, transformers, and locomotive traction motors during production, testing, rewind-shop work, and installation; asbestos-cement bulkhead panels in electrical rooms and rectifier buildings; asbestos-fiber medium-voltage underground cable jackets (Okonite, General Cable, Anaconda Wire & Cable, Pirelli); asbestos-fiber suspension-string cement on porcelain transmission-line insulators (Ohio Brass, Lapp Insulator); asbestos-fabric substation transformer lead wire insulation + radiator gaskets (Westinghouse, GE); and asbestos-fabric bus-duct flange-boot seals on GE isolated-phase bus duct. Utility linemen, substation electricians, cable splicers, motor rewind shop workers, and industrial maintenance electricians all allegedly encountered these asbestos-containing electrical components across every working day of the asbestos era.

Documented ACM Product Vectors Named in IBEW Litigation

Products from AP defendant manufacturers that plaintiffs alleged were used, installed, or otherwise present at IBEW Local 704 jobsites during the asbestos era:

If You Are a Retired IBEW Electricians Local 704 Member

If you or a family member worked as a electrical workers, inside wiremen, and outside linemen — including as an apprentice, journeyman, foreman, or shop supervisor — under IBEW Local 704 in the Dubuque, IA jurisdiction during the asbestos era, and have since been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestos lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.

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