Foster Wheeler — Livingston Township Engineering Complex in Livingston NJ

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 Livingston Township engineering complex in Livingston NJ. For the full corporate summary, see the Foster Wheeler manufacturer page.

Plant Description and Operating Era

The Foster Wheeler Livingston Township engineering complex served for decades as the corporate headquarters and principal U.S. engineering center for Foster Wheeler Corporation, coordinating design, procurement, and construction management for the company’s boilers, fired process heaters, and refinery/petrochemical projects worldwide. The Livingston campus included engineering-design offices, test-and-development shops, prototype fabrication bays, and pilot-scale refinery-process research facilities that supported the company’s boiler and process-heater product lines throughout the twentieth-century asbestos era. Corporate and engineering operations remained at Livingston through the postwar boiler and refinery buildup and into the modern era of Foster Wheeler / AMEC Foster Wheeler successor ownership.

Premises ACM Narrative

At the Foster Wheeler Livingston Township engineering complex during the U.S. asbestos era (approximately 1920s-1980), plaintiffs allegedly encountered:

  • Asbestos-refractory brick, castable, and monolithic gunning cement in pilot boiler firebox and process-heater refractory 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 prototype welding
  • Asbestos lab bench tops, fume-hood liners, and glove-box insulation in engineering research and development labs

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 Livingston Township

If you or a family member worked at the Foster Wheeler Livingston Township engineering complex in Livingston NJ — 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