About Carroll County Energy Power Station

Carroll County Energy is a natural gas-fired combined-cycle power generating facility in Carrollton, Carroll County, Ohio. The facility operates within Ohio’s power generation industry — a sector that historically incorporated large quantities of asbestos-containing materials during plant construction and operation.

Carroll County sits in eastern Ohio’s coal country, with an industrial workforce rooted in energy production, mining, and heavy manufacturing. Skilled tradespeople in this region often spent careers moving between power stations, industrial plants, and construction sites across the Ohio-Pennsylvania-West Virginia tri-state corridor — and frequently extended those careers westward into Missouri and Illinois facilities along the Mississippi River industrial corridor.

Power plants — coal-fired, natural gas-fired, or oil-fired — operate at extreme temperatures and pressures. Steam turbines, boilers, heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs), high-pressure piping, and electrical equipment all require thermal insulation and fire protection. For most of the twentieth century, asbestos-containing materials were the dominant choice for these applications because asbestos resists heat and flame above 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit, was abundant and inexpensive, and could be woven, sprayed, molded, or pressed into dozens of product forms. Every power generating facility constructed or substantially maintained before the mid-1980s reportedly incorporated asbestos-containing materials in some form.

General Equipment at Carroll County Energy Power Station

The equipment below represents the systems and infrastructure documented or typically present at this facility during the era when asbestos-containing materials were specified in industrial construction. This is general facility-equipment reference — not a legal attribution of any specific product, manufacturer, or exposure event to this facility. Material-category and manufacturer information is addressed in the AsbestosIndex Product Crosswalk linked under the records table below.

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Documented Asbestos Evidence

The records below are verified, state-documented asbestos removals at this facility. Each entry represents a regulated abatement project where the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA) was notified under federal NESHAP rules, the work was logged, and the asbestos-containing material was confirmed and removed under regulated conditions. These are not allegations or estimates — they are paper records tying documented asbestos-containing material to this specific site.

The following boilers and pressure vessels were registered with the Ohio Department of Commerce, Division of Industrial Compliance for this facility. These records are public documents and have been used in asbestos exposure litigation to document the presence of industrial heating equipment at this site.

Material Categories in Documented Records

The materials documented above (and similar asbestos-containing materials commonly encountered in records of this type) appear in the AsbestosIndex catalog with historical manufacturer and trust-fund information. Click a category to view manufacturers historically associated with that material:

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Who May Have Been Exposed at Carroll County Energy Power Station

Insulators faced the most direct asbestos exposure of any trade in power plant environments. Their work involved directly installing, removing, and replacing asbestos-containing thermal insulation products. Members of Heat and Frost Insulators Local 1 (St. Louis) and Local 27 (Kansas City) reportedly worked with asbestos block insulation and sectional pipe coverings on high-temperature piping, asbestos blanket and cloth insulation on equipment surfaces, asbestos cement and plaster compounds mixed by hand on the jobsite, and pre-formed pipe covering sections allegedly containing chrysotile or amosite asbestos. Cutting pipe covering sections to fit irregular configurations — or mixing asbestos cement compounds by hand — reportedly generated substantial airborne fiber concentrations.

Pipefitters and steamfitters worked on the high-pressure steam and hot water systems at the core of any power plant. Their work may have brought them into regular contact with asbestos-containing materials including gaskets and packing in valves, flanges, pumps, and mechanical seals manufactured by John Crane and Flexitallic. Removing old gaskets with wire brushes or scrapers may have released asbestos fibers directly. Pipefitters often worked adjacent to or on insulated piping, potentially disturbing asbestos-containing insulation products when accessing valves and equipment. Members of UA Local 562 (St. Louis) performing this work at regional power facilities may have faced substantial cumulative exposure risks across decades-long careers.

Critical Filing Deadline & Next Steps

Ohio law gives mesothelioma and asbestos-disease claimants 2 years from the date of medical diagnosis to file a personal-injury lawsuit (ORC § 2305.10). For wrongful-death claims after an asbestos-related death, the filing window is 2 years from the date of death (ORC § 2125.02). The two deadlines run on separate tracks — preserving one does not extend the other.

The personal-injury clock runs from diagnosis, not from exposure. Mesothelioma latency is typically 20 to 50 years, so workers exposed in the 1950s–1980s are being diagnosed today.

Practical first steps

  1. Document what you remember. Pay stubs, W-2s, union cards, photographs, coworker names, and dates of employment. The WorkChain widget on this page can save a copy you can email yourself.
  2. Preserve medical records. Pathology reports, biopsy results, imaging, and pulmonary-function tests are central to both civil claims and trust-fund filings.
  3. Identify household members. Spouses who laundered work clothing and children of plant workers are eligible for secondary-exposure claims when diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease.
  4. Speak with an asbestos attorney with Ohio experience. The first conversation is free and confidential. Asbestos trust-fund claims and civil claims run on different tracks — both can be pursued in parallel.

Asbestos-Related Diseases

Asbestos fiber exposure can cause several specific diseases that typically appear decades after the original exposure. The latency period — the gap between exposure and diagnosis — usually runs 20 to 50 years. That's why workers exposed in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s are receiving diagnoses today.

Mesothelioma

A rare, aggressive cancer that affects the lining of the lungs (pleural mesothelioma), abdomen (peritoneal), or heart (pericardial). Mesothelioma is almost exclusively caused by asbestos exposure, which is why a mesothelioma diagnosis often points directly to historical workplace exposure. Average latency from first exposure to diagnosis is 30-50 years.

Asbestosis

A chronic, non-cancerous scarring of lung tissue caused by inhaled asbestos fibers. Asbestosis causes progressive shortness of breath, persistent cough, and reduced lung function. It does not improve with treatment, and it is a recognized basis for compensation under most trust schedules and civil claims.

Lung Cancer

Asbestos exposure significantly increases the risk of lung cancer, particularly when combined with a history of smoking. Asbestos-related lung cancer is compensable under the same trust schedules and civil claim avenues as mesothelioma.

Other Recognized Diseases

Pleural plaques, pleural thickening, laryngeal cancer, ovarian cancer, and certain gastrointestinal cancers are also recognized as asbestos-related under various trust schedules and case-law authorities, though eligibility and proof requirements vary by claim type.

If you have any of these diagnoses and you worked at this facility, lived with someone who did, or were exposed in any documented capacity, you may have a claim worth pursuing. Speak with an attorney before assuming you don't qualify.

Cross-State & Regional Corridor Workers

Workers at Carroll County Energy were not isolated from the broader Mississippi River industrial corridor. Skilled tradespeople based in Ohio and Illinois routinely took project work at Ohio power facilities, and Ohio-based workers sometimes transferred to Missouri and Illinois plants throughout careers in the energy and heavy manufacturing sectors. If you or a family member worked across this regional industrial network — whether in Carrollton, Ohio, or at facilities in St. Charles County, Franklin County, or Granite City, Illinois — your asbestos exposure history and your legal rights may span multiple states.

Workers who took jobs at multiple facilities may have accumulated asbestos exposures at each site, including at Missouri and Illinois facilities such as Labadie Energy Center (Franklin County, MO — Ameren UE), one of Missouri’s largest coal-fired generating stations, where insulators and boilermakers may have been exposed to asbestos-containing thermal insulation and refractory materials; Portage des Sioux Power Plant (St. Charles County, MO — Ameren UE), a major plant on the Mississippi River industrial corridor where asbestos-containing materials were allegedly present throughout construction and decades of operation; Sioux Energy Center (St. Charles County, MO), where workers may have been exposed to asbestos-containing insulation, gaskets, and refractory materials; Rush Island Energy Center (Jefferson County, MO — Ameren UE), where maintenance outage work allegedly brought pipefitters, insulators, and boilermakers into direct contact with asbestos-containing materials; and Granite City Steel (Madison County, IL), a major steel production facility along the Mississippi River industrial corridor where Heat and Frost Insulators and Boilermakers may have encountered asbestos-containing materials throughout plant operations.

Members of Heat and Frost Insulators Local 1 (St. Louis, MO), Heat and Frost Insulators Local 27 (Kansas City, MO), UA Local 562 (St. Louis, MO), and Boilermakers Local 27 (St. Louis, MO) who worked at multiple regional facilities during their careers — including project assignments at Ohio power plants — may have accumulated exposures at each site. A career that included stints at Carroll County Energy, Labadie, and Portage des Sioux may have involved cumulative asbestos exposure across decades and multiple jurisdictions.

Data Sources

Information about facility equipment, industrial materials, and occupational records referenced on this page is drawn from publicly available sources where applicable, including:

If specific equipment or product claims in this article are sourced from a non-public database, the source is identified parenthetically within the text above.