About Long Ridge Energy Terminal Power

Long Ridge Energy Terminal sits in Hannibal, Monroe County, Ohio, directly across the Ohio River from Hannibal, Missouri. The facility lies within the Ohio Valley and broader Mississippi River industrial corridor that has supported power generation, chemical manufacturing, and steel production for more than a century.

Power generation facilities of Long Ridge’s era were reportedly constructed with asbestos-containing materials throughout every major system. Workers at this facility may have encountered ACMs during:

  • Original construction and equipment installation — reportedly involving products
  • Maintenance and repair of aging systems — using products
  • Equipment overhauls and renovations — disturbing legacy asbestos-containing materials installed decades earlier
  • Demolition and abatement activities — documented in NESHAP notification records
  • Modernization projects — that may disturb residual asbestos-containing materials

The facility’s operating history spans the era when asbestos-containing products were standard in virtually every major power plant system:

  • Thermal insulation systems — resisting sustained heat above 1,000°F
  • Fire resistance materials — for electrical panels, cable runs, and structural fireproofing
  • Mechanical seals and gaskets — withstanding extreme heat and compression cycling
  • Boiler and turbine systems — featuring manufacturer-specified asbestos-containing components

General Equipment at Long Ridge Energy Terminal Power

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.

Boilers View crosswalk › Steam Turbines View crosswalk › Steam Traps View crosswalk › Condensers View crosswalk › Feedwater Heaters View crosswalk › Cooling Towers View crosswalk › Pipe Insulation View crosswalk › Block Insulation View crosswalk › Refractory Lining View crosswalk › Valves View crosswalk › Gaskets View crosswalk › Pumps View crosswalk ›

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.

No Ohio EPA NESHAP abatement notifications have been identified for this facility in current public records. Per the framing above, absence of state-agency documentation should not be read as absence of asbestos — only as absence of a formal, regulated abatement event meeting reporting thresholds. Workers who recall encountering pipe insulation, block insulation, gaskets, or other asbestos-era construction materials at this facility may still have viable claims regardless of whether a state record exists.

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:

Thermal System Insulation View crosswalk › Asbestos-Cement Board View crosswalk › Pipe Insulation View crosswalk › Roofing & Flashing View crosswalk › Spray Fireproofing View crosswalk › Floor Tile & Mastic View crosswalk › Ceiling Tile View crosswalk › Gaskets & Packing View crosswalk ›

Who May Have Been Exposed at Long Ridge Energy Terminal Power

Maintenance workers regularly disturbed existing asbestos-containing installations during the 1970s–Late 1980s regulatory transition and peak maintenance exposure period. Trades most heavily exposed during this period reportedly included:

  • Pipefitters and steamfitters
  • Boilermakers
  • Heat and Frost Insulators
  • Millwrights
  • Electricians working in insulated equipment areas
  • Construction laborers on renovation and demolition crews

Workers from Missouri and Illinois union locals—dispatched from St. Louis, Kansas City, Granite City, and the Metro East region—reportedly traveled to Long Ridge and comparable facilities throughout the region for construction, maintenance, and outage work. Many Ohio workers who may have been exposed at Long Ridge also reportedly worked at comparable facilities including Labadie Energy Center (Franklin County, Missouri), Portage des Sioux Power Plant (St. Charles County, Missouri), and Granite City Steel (Madison County, Illinois).

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 from Missouri and Illinois union locals—dispatched from St. Louis, Kansas City, Granite City, and the Metro East region—reportedly traveled to Long Ridge and comparable facilities throughout the region for construction, maintenance, and outage work. Many Ohio workers who may have been exposed at Long Ridge also reportedly worked at comparable facilities including Labadie Energy Center (Franklin County, Missouri), Portage des Sioux Power Plant (St. Charles County, Missouri), and Granite City Steel (Madison County, Illinois). Missouri and Illinois residents who worked at this facility, or who traveled to it from union halls in St. Louis, Kansas City, or the Metro East Illinois communities, may have legal claims in Ohio or Illinois courts. The Mississippi River and Ohio River industrial corridors share a common occupational history. Workers routinely crossed state lines for construction, maintenance, and outage work.

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.