IUOE Operating Engineers Local 571 — Omaha, NE

Local 571 of the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) organizes the operating engineers, heavy-equipment operators, and stationary engineers trade in the Omaha, NE jurisdiction. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that IUOE Local 571 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).

IUOE Operating Engineers Trade — Asbestos Exposure Overview

Operating engineers in the International Union of Operating Engineers (IUOE) are the U.S. trade responsible for operating and maintaining heavy construction equipment (bulldozers, backhoes, cranes, dragline shovels, motor graders, roller-compactors, hoists) on construction sites, and for operating stationary engineering equipment (industrial boilers, chillers, HVAC systems, refrigeration plants, air compressors) inside industrial and institutional powerhouses. Across the U.S. asbestos era, plaintiffs alleged that IUOE members were exposed to airborne chrysotile asbestos every time they operated heavy equipment coated with asbestos-based brake linings and clutch friction discs, every time they refueled or worked on equipment with asbestos-fabric-lined engine compartments, and every time they worked adjacent to sprayed asbestos fireproofing on structural steel + asbestos pipe covering on refinery + power plant + chemical plant + steel mill process piping.

IUOE members allegedly worked in direct contact with asbestos brake bands + clutch friction discs on Caterpillar D8 bulldozers, John Deere JD 550 crawlers, International Harvester TD-20 crawlers, Komatsu D75, Terex TR-70 haul trucks, Grove RT-58 cranes, Manitowoc lattice-boom cranes, Euclid haul trucks, Bucyrus-Erie draglines, Marion Power Shovel draglines, and P&H mining shovels; asbestos-fabric arc chute plates in construction-site electrical distribution equipment; asbestos pipe covering + asbestos-block hot-side lagging on industrial powerhouse boilers + steam mains during stationary-engineer work; sprayed asbestos fireproofing on structural steel during refinery, power plant, and chemical plant construction (working ALONGSIDE Iron Workers); and asbestos-cement roofing + siding during industrial and warehouse building assembly.

Documented ACM Product Vectors Named in IUOE Litigation

Products from AP defendant manufacturers that plaintiffs alleged were used, installed, or otherwise present at IUOE Local 571 jobsites during the asbestos era:

If You Are a Retired IUOE Operating Engineers Local 571 Member

If you or a family member worked as a operating engineers, heavy-equipment operators, and stationary engineer — including as an apprentice, journeyman, foreman, or shop supervisor — under IUOE Local 571 in the Omaha, NE 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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