About St Francis Energy Facility Campbell Missouri

Facility Overview and Location

The St. Francis Energy Center is a coal-fired electric generating facility located in Campbell, Missouri, in Dunklin County in the Missouri Bootheel. The plant reportedly began commercial operations in 1999 with an installed generating capacity of approximately 253 megawatts (MW). A 1999 construction date does not eliminate asbestos exposure risk. Equipment specified and ordered years before commissioning, ongoing maintenance activities, and the documented practices of manufacturers who supplied this class of facility through the mid-1990s all create potential exposure pathways that experienced asbestos attorneys have litigated successfully at similarly situated facilities — including the Labadie Energy Center in Franklin County, the Portage des Sioux Power Plant in St. Charles County, and the Rush Island Energy Center in Jefferson County. The plant is one of the largest industrial employers in the rural Campbell region and has employed construction workers, maintenance personnel, members of Heat and Frost Insulators Local 1 (St. Louis, MO), Plumbers and Pipefitters UA Local 562 (St. Louis, MO), electricians, boilermakers affiliated with Boilermakers Local 27 (St. Louis, MO), and other trades throughout its operational life. The St. Francis Energy Center sits within the broader Mississippi River industrial corridor — the same industrial belt that includes Granite City Steel in Madison County, Illinois, the Monsanto chemical complex in St. Louis County, and a network of coal-fired generating stations, refineries, and heavy manufacturing facilities that have collectively employed hundreds of thousands of Missouri and southwestern Illinois workers over the past century. Workers who moved between these facilities — as union tradespeople commonly did — may have accumulated asbestos exposure across multiple sites along this corridor. —

Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. (AECI): The Direct Owner

The St. Francis Energy Center is owned and operated by Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc. (AECI), a generation and transmission cooperative headquartered in Springfield, Missouri. AECI was founded in 1961 and operates the facility to serve rural electric consumers across Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

The Member Cooperative Owners

AECI is cooperatively owned by six member cooperatives:

  • **Central Electric Power Cooperative Inc. - **KAMO Electric Cooperative Inc. - **M&A Electric Power Cooperative
  • **N.W. Electric Power Cooperative Inc. (Northwest Electric Power Cooperative)
  • **Northeast Missouri Electric Power Cooperative Inc. - **Sho-Me Power Electric Cooperative

Why Ownership Structure Matters for Your Missouri Asbestos Claim

This layered cooperative structure directly affects how an asbestos attorney Missouri builds your case:

  • AECI bears primary responsibility as the direct owner and operator
  • Member cooperatives may share liability depending on their involvement in operational decisions, contracting, and maintenance
  • Equipment manufacturers and product suppliers —, gaskets and packing, ceiling tile, and — are alleged to have supplied asbestos-containing materials to this class of facility and are regularly named as defendants in asbestos claims arising from similar power generation sites
  • Construction contractors and subcontractors from the 1990s construction phase are potentially liable parties
  • An experienced mesothelioma lawyer will conduct corporate genealogy research to identify every responsible entity and available asbestos trust fund Missouri recovery source

Understanding this structure — and acting before —

Construction Phase (Mid-to-Late 1990s)

During design, engineering, and construction leading to the 1999 operational date, construction tradespeople — including members of Heat and Frost Insulators Local 1, boilermakers affiliated with Boilermakers Local 27, Plumbers and Pipefitters UA Local 562 members, pipefitters, electricians, millwrights, and laborers — may have been exposed to asbestos-containing materials allegedly including:

  • Boiler system insulation products such as pipe covering and insulation, pipe covering, and fiber products
  • Turbine hall and generator system components
  • Electrical system and switchgear installations, potentially involving spray fireproofing and other asbestos-containing coatings
  • Control building materials incorporating asbestos-containing products
  • Cooling tower and condenser system components
  • Pre-formed asbestos-containing pipe covers and wrapping

Many of the tradespeople who reportedly worked the St. Francis construction project in the 1990s were the same union members who had previously worked at Labadie, Portage des Sioux, Granite City Steel, and other Mississippi River corridor industrial sites — meaning their cumulative asbestos exposure may span multiple facilities and decades. If you worked St. Francis during construction and have since received a diagnosis, your potential defendants and asbestos trust fund Missouri claims may extend well beyond this single facility. That is precisely why speaking with a mesothelioma lawyer St. Louis before ### Commissioning Phase (1999)

Plant startup and commissioning involved extensive testing, adjustment, and hot work across all systems. Instrument technicians, electricians, pipefitters, and engineers may have been exposed to asbestos-containing insulation and equipment components during this phase, including materials allegedly supplied by , and other manufacturers.

Operations and Maintenance Phase (1999–Present)

Scheduled and unscheduled maintenance creates ongoing potential asbestos exposure for:

  • Boiler maintenance workers performing annual and biennial inspections on allegedly asbestos-insulated systems
  • Pipefitters replacing gaskets from gaskets and packing, valve packing, and flange seals
  • Heat and Frost Insulators Local 1 members performing insulation

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General Equipment at St Francis Energy Facility Campbell Missouri

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 Missouri Department of Natural Resources (Missouri DNR) 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 Missouri DNR 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 ›

Critical Filing Deadline & Next Steps

Missouri law gives mesothelioma and asbestos-disease claimants 5 years from the date of medical diagnosis to file a personal-injury lawsuit (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 516.120). For wrongful-death claims after an asbestos-related death, the filing window is 3 years from the date of death (Mo. Rev. Stat. § 537.100). 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 Missouri 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.

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.