For around 100 years, Turner & Newall was one of the key players in the asbestos industry. In the years before asbestos was found to be dangerous to human health, many companies incorporated it into their manufacturing, but not all ceased to use it once its hazards became known. These infamous companies brazenly covered up medical findings in the pursuit of profits over the safety of their workers. One such company was Turner & Newall.

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A brief history of Turner & Newall

Founded in 1871, Turner & Newall first began trading in Rochdale, England. Eight years later, having adopted the use of asbestos in its manufacturing, its name was changed to Turner Brothers Asbestos Company. The company later reverted back to Turner & Newall, despite continuing to use asbestos well into the 1970s and possibly beyond.

Antes de la Primera Guerra Mundial

Antes de la Primera Guerra Mundial, T&N operaba una planta de fabricación de asbesto, fabricando láminas de cemento de asbesto en mosaico llamadas mosaicos Trafford, con otros productos que incluían aislamiento, tableros resistentes al calor y productos de asbesto en aerosol.

A partir de ahí, los cambios clave incluyeron:

1920 – Merging with Washington Chemical Company and J.W. Roberts

1920 – Listing on the London Stock Exchange

Décadas de 1920 a 1930 - – Further expansion into the U.S. through various mergers and acquisitions

1934 – Purchasing asbestos construction product manufacturers Keasbey & Mattison Co.(Keasbey & Mattison Co. was subsequently purchased by CertainTeed in 1962)

1953 – Already maintaining a number of South African asbestos mines, T&N purchased a major asbestos-product manufacturing company in Zimbabwe

1998 – T&N is purchased by U.S. company, Federal-Mogul

Curiosamente, Federal-Mogul ya enfrentaba problemas financieros en el momento de la compra debido a litigios en curso relacionados con el asbesto.

Vast applications of T&N asbestos

Durante sus muchas décadas de actividad comercial, T&N fabricó y distribuyó un producto de rociado aislante e ignífugo llamado 'asbesto de lapa rociado'. Este producto de asbesto se usó en grandes cantidades en todo Estados Unidos, incluidos más de 22,000 pies cuadrados del restaurante Space Needle de Seattle y el Chase Manhattan Bank de Nueva York.

Both JFK Airport and the World Trade Center contained Turner and Newall asbestos.

Furthermore, a wide variety of T&N products were used in the construction of many huge and iconic structures, such as John F. Kennedy Airport and the ill-fated World Trade Center – sadly, much of the dust covering those caught up in the chaos of 9/11 contained asbestos, much of which likely originated from T&N products.

Turner and Newall continued to operate even when the dangers of asbestos were more widely known.

Through the years, despite successfully claiming a significant chunk of the American market, T&N continued to operate in England. Asbestos was not regulated in England until 1970, leaving the T&N asbestos factories free to release asbestos dust, covering the surrounding streets and rooftops; it was reportedly commonplace for children to play with the dust, making faux-snowballs, and playing in the factory’s yard amongst asbestos bales.

Si es posible que haya estado expuesto al asbesto, hable con su proveedor de atención médica sobre pruebas y exámenes para ayudar a detectar la presencia de fibras de asbesto y daños relacionados con el asbesto.

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Deadly asbestos cover-up by Turner & Newall

En la década de 1920, los médicos se estaban volviendo cada vez más conscientes de las enfermedades que puede causar la exposición al asbesto, y la asbestosis (enfermedad pulmonar relacionada con el asbesto) comenzó a aparecer en las revistas médicas británicas.

Insurance companies across the U.S. and Canada also stopped offering life insurance products to asbestos workers around the same time, and by the 1930s, safer asbestos substitutes were emerging, but that didn’t stop T&N; with substantial profits to protect, they chose to minimize and bury medical advices and continue putting their workers’ health at risk in favor of the big bucks.

Turner & Newall and Nellie Kershaw, the first asbestos victim to file a lawsuit

The case of Nellie Kershaw, an English textile worker, whose death was cited as being due to occupational asbestos exposure by Dr. William Edmund Cooke, represents the first published account of asbestos-related disease, and led to the first Asbestos Industry Regulations being set in 1931. Nellie had worked for Turner Brothers Asbestos, who accepted no liability and even refused to pay for her funeral, stating that to do so would create a precedent.

Despite the fact that the deadly effects of asbestos exposure were becoming fairly well understood at this time, T&N continued to ignore the evidence, challenge and/or disregard the opinions of the medical professionals, and keep raking in the money – at the expense of its workers – for many decades.

Turner & Newall declared bankruptcy and created a trust to compensate asbestos victims.

No mucho después de que Federal-Mogul adquiriera T&N en 1998, se vio obligada a declararse en quiebra en 2001 debido a una abrumadora oleada de reclamos por asbesto.

El artículo de revista de 1999, “¿Demasiado poco, demasiado tarde? La oficina central y las regulaciones de la industria del asbesto, 1931: una respuesta”, resume una variedad de pruebas condenatorias sobre el vergonzoso encubrimiento, así como las muchas formas en que T&N no cumplió satisfactoriamente con las regulaciones del asbesto una vez que entraron en vigor.

This negligence and T&N’s willful attempts to suppress vital warnings regarding the dangers of asbestos extended to arrangements for workers’ medical examinations in 1932. T&N director, Robert Turner, reportedly said to a fellow industrialist, “I am in complete agreement with your suggestion that we should endeavor to have the asbestos industry removed from the schedule of dangerous occupations.”

Turner & Newall resisted and even ignored asbestos regulations designed to protect workers.

The article goes on to address the “woefully deficient” way in which T&N enforced asbestos industry regulations. For example, JW Roberts (a wholly-owned subsidiary of T&N) had a long history of failing to uphold dust control measures, as evidenced by the chilling recollections of children playing in the deadly dust.

By 1995, the accumulated evidence against T&N as presented by Chase Manhattan Bank was so damning that T&N’s defense team didn’t even attempt to contest its past failures in adhering to dust control regulations.

Víctimas y reclamantes

Como sabemos ahora, el desarrollo de enfermedades pulmonares y mesotelioma (una forma agresiva de cáncer relacionado con el asbesto) a menudo tarda muchos años o décadas en manifestarse, y continúan surgiendo reclamos como resultado de la vergonzosa negligencia de T&N para priorizar la salud y el bienestar. de sus trabajadores y de las comunidades aledañas a sus fábricas.

In Leeds, England, there has been a particularly high rate of deaths from cancers linked to T&N factories, with asbestos having been stored in open sacks and bales stacked outside the factory premises on public roads.

Turner & Newall and asbestos bankruptcy trusts

Federal-Mogul estableció un Fideicomiso de lesiones personales por asbesto en diciembre de 2007, y su sub-fondo T&N comenzó a aceptar reclamos en 2010. El porcentaje de pago actual es del 8.5%, y el fideicomiso aclara que este porcentaje se establece para garantizar que haya fondos suficientes para reclamantes presentes y futuros. El informe también establece que se pagaron $ 44 millones a reclamos a lo largo de 2021, lo que contribuye a los casi $ 448 millones que ha pagado el Fideicomiso desde que se estableció.

The claimants generally eligible for the T&N fund are those workers who either manufactured the asbestos-containing products, spouses and family/household members of the workers (through secondary exposure) and other workers at risk of exposure to T&N asbestos-containing products, such as boilermakers, insulators, pipefitters, factory workers and so on.

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