Two Clinton-area employers are documented: a coal-fired generating station and a chemical plant.
KCP&L Montrose Generating Station is the larger. Coal-fired powerhouses are the single most consistent source of asbestos exposure in the Missouri record — boilers, turbines, pumps and the piping between them were insulated, and that insulation was cut into for every outage and repair across decades. Chemplex Chemical Company appears as a separate chemical-processing employer.
The trades that recur are insulators and pipe coverers, boilermakers, pipefitters and steamfitters, millwrights, electricians and operating engineers.
Few work histories involve a single site. Tradesmen moved between plants on shutdowns and turnarounds, so an exposure history is normally several employers and several premises rather than one.
Secondary exposure: “take-home” risk
Fibres carried home on work clothes exposed spouses and children who laundered them — a pattern documented in Missouri cases, and one reason a diagnosis in someone who never held an industrial job still warrants investigation.
Missouri filing deadlines
Two deadlines run independently. Personal injury is five years under Mo. Rev. Stat. § 516.120, reaching these claims through subdivision (4). Wrongful death is three years after the cause of action accrues under Mo. Rev. Stat. § 537.100.
When the five years start is set by a different statute: under Mo. Rev. Stat. § 516.100 a claim accrues “when the damage resulting therefrom is sustained and is capable of ascertainment.” That is usually read from the diagnosis, but it is an objective test decided on the facts and it can fall earlier. How Missouri asbestos claims work →