Fenton was an automotive town, and its documented sites reflect that plus the plastics work that supplied it.
The Chrysler Fenton Assembly Plant is the major employer in the record. Assembly plants ran their own powerhouses and paint-line ovens, and friction products — brakes and clutches — were handled in volume. Koller Craft LLC is documented in phenolic resin manufacturing, where asbestos served as a filler in moulding compound. Maritz Inc. appears in the building and commercial-printing record.
Moulded-product and friction work exposes a different group than a boiler house does: the dust comes from machining, grinding and finishing cured material, and it reaches whoever is working nearby.
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 →