Which Pleasants County facilities should be considered for asbestos exposure evidence?

Exposure histories in Pleasants County often involve both the older Willow Island plant site and the newer Pleasants Power Station work areas, including outage work, maintenance, and contractor scopes near boilers, turbines, insulation, and mechanical systems.

What documents should I gather before a power plant asbestos claim is evaluated?

Collect union/trade records, work orders, outage rosters, pay stubs, jobsite badges, contractor assignments, coworker names, and any photos showing equipment, labels, or insulation. Medical records and pathology materials should also be preserved.

What if the paper trail is missing or the employer is gone?

Claims can still be built using alternate proof—coworker testimony, union records, jobsite affidavits, product identification, and historical contractor/vendor evidence. Acting early helps preserve witnesses and locate records.

Pleasants Cooling Tower Asbestos Claims

If you worked on or around the Pleasants Power Station site in Willow Island, WV between St. Mary’s, WV and Belmont, WV on Route 2. If your work was especially during construction or major maintenance—don’t assume your exposure story is “too complicated” to prove. It’s often the opposite: complicated sites create more points of exposure, more contractors, and more product categories that can be traced.

This post focuses on the Pleasants cooling tower collapse site and the broader construction/industrial work that surrounded it, because workers from multiple trades were present, and legacy asbestos materials were common across power generation and related industrial builds.

Where asbestos exposure can occur at a cooling-tower and power-station site

Even when the work looks “concrete and steel,” asbestos exposure usually comes from the systems that support the plant:

Pipe insulation and pipe covering
Boilers and steam lines
Gaskets, packing, and flange work
Turbine-area insulation
Pumps, valves, and maintenance materials
Fireproofing and refractory materials
Electrical and mechanical rooms with insulated components
Old buildings or reused equipment staged on site

Power projects also cycle through multiple contractors, and that matters—because different crews handle demo, retrofits, and maintenance where dust exposure can spike.

Who tends to have the strongest claim profiles

Claims tend to be strongest when the work was hands-on and repetitive:

Pipefitters / steamfitters
Boilermakers
Millwrights
Insulators
Electricians and instrumentation techs
Maintenance crews
Contractors assigned to outages, retrofits, or teardown

If you were on-site for shutdowns, tie-ins, repairs, or cleanup, you were closer to the materials that historically contained asbestos.

What to preserve right now

For a Pleasants Cooling Tower asbestos claim, you don’t need perfect records. You need a clean timeline and credible anchors.

Start with:

Employer/contractor name(s) and dates on site
Job title/trade and what you actually did day-to-day
Where you worked (unit areas, turbine deck, boiler area, pipe runs, shops)
Names of coworkers who can confirm the work
Any union information, if applicable

Helpful documents:

Old pay stubs, W-2s, job dispatch slips
Badges, safety cards, training records
Photos, diaries, or calendars
Social Security work history if you need it later

Why these cases become harder with time

The paper trail doesn’t just “get buried”—it disappears: contractors dissolve, project records get purged, and witnesses scatter. Waiting can cost you the proof you’ll need to make a claim real.

Talk before the trail goes cold

If you believe you had exposure connected to the Pleasants cooling tower or power station work and you’ve been diagnosed with an asbestos disease, get legal guidance early—before records and witnesses vanish.

Call (412) 781-0525 to discuss your work history and what evidence to preserve now.