POWER GENERATION FACILITY

Kansas

Fort Scott, KS

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Fort Scott, KS

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Facility Type Power Generation Facility

Location Fort Scott, KS

If you or a family member worked at the Goodman Energy Center in Kansas and may have been exposed to asbestos-containing materials, a Kansas asbestos attorney can evaluate your potential legal rights and financial recovery options. Power generation facilities like Goodman reportedly used asbestos-containing materials throughout much of the twentieth century in pipe insulation, boiler components, gaskets, and dozens of other applications. Insulators, pipefitters, boilermakers, electricians, operators, and maintenance personnel may have been exposed to asbestos fibers during normal job duties.

Missouri and Kansas workers who traveled to Goodman for construction, maintenance, or turnaround work carry the same potential legal rights as workers permanently assigned to the facility. The regional industrial corridor — stretching from Wichita south through the neighboring states bottoms — supplied much of the labor force that built and maintained power generation infrastructure throughout the mid-continent region, including facilities in Kansas. Union members dispatched from Wichita locals, Kansas City locals, and from across Kansas and southwestern Illinois may have worked at Goodman at various points in the facility’s operational history.

This guide covers your potential asbestos exposure risks, the diseases that can result, and the legal options available to you and your family — including Kansas mesothelioma settlements, asbestos trust fund claims, and bankruptcy trust filing rights that may apply to your situation.

**Kansas’s 2-year statute of limitations runs from diagnosis, not from the date of exposure.

General Equipment at Goodman Energy Center |

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 — Kansas

The records below are verified, state-documented asbestos removals at this facility. Each entry represents a regulated abatement project where the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) 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.

Read these records as a floor, not a ceiling. NESHAP-reportable abatement only captures material that was formally removed under a notified, regulated project — typically during renovation or demolition. The following kinds of asbestos are NOT in the table below:

Asbestos-containing material still in place inside walls, ceilings, mechanical rooms, pipe chases, and steam systems
Material disturbed during routine maintenance, repairs, or small-scale work that fell below NESHAP notification thresholds
Material removed before the modern reporting regime took full effect (NESHAP enforcement strengthened in the late 1980s and 1990s — earlier work is largely undocumented in agency files)
Bystander exposure created when one trade's work disturbed asbestos that other workers nearby inhaled without ever being recorded

For workers active at this facility during periods earlier than these records, or in trades whose work routinely disturbed legacy materials without triggering notification, the actual exposure footprint is likely substantially larger than what state agency records alone document. Absence of a record is not evidence of absence of asbestos.

No KDHE 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 ›

Who May Have Been Exposed at Goodman Energy Center |

Every trade working at a power generation facility like Goodman during the mid-twentieth century potentially faced some degree of asbestos exposure risk. neighboring states union members who worked at Goodman as traveling workers or dispatched contractors from Wichita and Kansas City locals carry the same legal rights as workers permanently assigned to the facility.

A critical note for every trade listed below: Kansas’s 2-year statute of limitations under K.S.A. § 60-513 runs from your diagnosis date, not from your last day of work.

High-Risk Occupations at Power Generation Facilities

Insulators — Heat and Frost Insulators Local 1 and Local 27

Insulators are among the highest-risk groups in asbestos litigation nationally and in Kansas and Illinois courts specifically. Members of Heat and Frost Insulators Local 1 and Local 27 may have been dispatched to Goodman and similar out-of-state power generation facilities for construction and turnaround work.

The same Local 1 members who may have worked at comparable regional power stations may also have worked at Goodman during peak construction and maintenance periods. Job duties allegedly included:

Installing, maintaining, and removing asbestos-containing pipe insulation and boiler insulation
Mixing asbestos-containing insulating cements
Cutting and fitting asbestos-containing pipe covering products, including calcium silicate pipe insulation and Thermobestos
Working in enclosed areas with elevated airborne fiber concentrations

**If you are a retired insulator who may have been exposed at Goodman or similar power generation facilities and you have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or lung cancer, contact a Kansas mesothelioma lawyer today. With Pipefitters and Steamfitters — UA Local 441 and Local 268

Workers in these trades may have been exposed through multiple mechanisms while working on high-pressure steam piping systems. Members of Plumbers and Pipefitters UA Local 441 and UA Local 441 may have worked at Goodman and similar Kansas power generation facilities. UA Local 441 members are well documented in asbestos trust fund records and Kansas court filings as having worked at out-of-state industrial facilities during construction and turnaround periods.

Alleged exposure pathways for pipefitters include:

Removing and reinstalling asbestos-containing pipe insulation to access flanges, valves, and fittings
Using asbestos-containing rope packing and gasket materials on high-pressure connections
Working in close proximity to insulators cutting and applying asbestos-containing materials
Handling asbestos-containing valve and pump components and gaskets and packing

Boilermakers — Local 27 and Regional Locals

Boilermakers may have been exposed to asbestos-containing materials during construction

Generating Unit Equipment — Public Registry

The following generating units are documented in the North American Electric Generating Plants database for this facility. This database is maintained by UDI/S&P Global and draws on federal EIA filings and state regulatory records.

Unit	Year	Capacity	Fuel	Boiler Type	Boiler/Steam Sys Mfr	Turbine Mfr	Status
Goodland Ic 01		0.4 MW	Oil	N/A	N/A		RET
Goodland Ic 02		0.8 MW	Oil	N/A	N/A		RET
Goodland Ic 03	1939	0.77 MW	Oil	N/A	N/A	Fm	Operating
Goodland Ic 04	1947	1 MW	Gas	N/A	N/A		Retired 1994
Goodland Ic 05	1950	1.25 MW	Gas	N/A	N/A	Fm	Retired 1998
Goodland Ic 06	1962	2.27 MW	Gas	N/A	N/A	Fm	Operating
Goodland Ic 07	1966	2.27 MW	Gas	N/A	N/A	Fm	Operating
Goodland Ic 09	1970	2.07 MW	Gas	N/A	N/A		Retired 1994
Goodland Ic 10	1971	2.07 MW	Gas	N/A	N/A	Fm	Operating
Goodland Ic 08	1975	5.01 MW	Gas	N/A	N/A	Semt	Operating
Goodland Ic 11	1978	4.3 MW	Gas	N/A	N/A	Semt	Operating
Goodland Ic 12	1995	1 MW	Gas	N/A	N/A	Fm	Operating

Source: UDI/S&P Global North American Electric Generating Plants database (NAMERICA 2025). Public reference data.

Kansas — Filing Deadline & Next Steps

Kansas law gives mesothelioma and asbestos-disease claimants 2 years from the date of medical diagnosis to file a personal-injury lawsuit (K.S.A. § 60-513). For wrongful-death claims after an asbestos-related death, the filing window is 2 years from the date of death (K.S.A. § 60-1903). 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

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.
Preserve medical records. Pathology reports, biopsy results, imaging, and pulmonary-function tests are central to both civil claims and trust-fund filings.
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.
Speak with an asbestos attorney with Kansas 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 — Kansas

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 a claim 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 — Kansas

Information about facility equipment, industrial materials, and occupational records referenced on this page is drawn from publicly available sources where applicable, including:

EPA ECHO Facility Compliance Database — enforcement and compliance records for industrial facilities
OSHA Establishment Search — federal workplace inspection history
EIA Form 860 Plant Data — power-plant equipment and ownership records (where applicable)
Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) NESHAP asbestos abatement notification records
Published asbestos trial and trust fund records (publicly filed court documents)
AsbestosIndex Product & Manufacturer Crosswalk — historical asbestos-containing product schedules linked to manufacturers

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.

Firsthand Accounts from the Trades

Did you work at Goodman Energy Center |? Add your account.

Records show what a plant was. They don't show what the work was like. If you were sent there — insulation, pipe, boilers, sheet metal, electrical, laborer — tell us what you remember: which units or buildings, what you handled, what came down during an outage. Every account helps another worker or a family understand where exposure happened, and where to look next.

About these accounts: they are personal recollections shared by workers and their families — individual memory, not records, and not independently verified. The site history and documented exposure record on this page come from public and regulatory sources. These accounts sit alongside that record — they add to it, they don't change it.

Who an asbestos claim is actually against. These claims are brought against the companies that manufactured and sold the asbestos-containing products used at industrial sites like this one — the insulation, block, cement, gaskets and packing. A claim of that kind is not aimed at the plant, at the people you worked alongside, or at your local. And adding your recollection here is not filing anything: it is a record of what was on site and how the work was done. We are an independent publisher, not a law firm.

Years you worked there Your trade

Who you worked for (the contractor, if not the plant) Local # (optional)

Your account

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Answer whatever comes to mind and skip the rest. Nothing here needs looking up, and a half-remembered name is worth more than a blank.

Any names you remember. On the bags and boxes the material came in, or stamped on a boiler, pump or valve. Even half a name helps — it's the hardest thing to recover this far on.
Who you worked for, and who else was out there. Most men were hired by a contractor rather than the plant, and the insulation crew was usually a different outfit again. If they were working over your head, that counts too.
When, as close as you can get. "Summer of '73" tells us more than "the seventies."
Outages and tear-outs. Shutdown work is when the old lagging came off in quantity — hot, dusty, and usually the worst of it.
Men you worked alongside. First names, or even nicknames. Someone who was there with you is worth a lot.
Whether the hall sent you. If you were dispatched out of a local, there may still be a record of which jobs and when.

Other sites you worked (optional — plants, refineries, powerhouses, schools; we may not have pages for them yet)

Credit as (first name or initials recommended — this appears publicly) Email (only if we may follow up — never shown)

Reviewed by our team before it appears — for accuracy and your privacy. Published as a clearly-marked worker account, kept separate from the site's documented record. We never publish your email. Any other sites you name go on our list to research — if we can document one from records, it becomes a page. We're an independent publisher, not a law firm, and this is not legal advice.

What asbestos exposure pathways are associated with Kansas?

Pathways in this report refer to commonly used asbestos-containing material systems at power generation facilities that may contribute to exposure practices, fiber transfer, and deposition. Activities include maintenance, repair, overhaul, and demolition across these systems.

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Facility History

Construction during the high-pressure steam era (1950s–1970s)
Multiple boiler and turbine-generating units installed
Operated by regional utility under EIA registration
Underwent system overhauls and unit additions

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Pathway Summary

Boiler room insulation work during construction and maintenance
Turbine casing and pipe-covering replacement activities
Valve packing and gasket replacement throughout plant life
Refractory brick and castable installation in furnace areas
Spray fireproofing application on structural steel

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Evidence & Sources

EIA Form 860 — generating unit registration records
Kansas DHE air quality and abatement notifications
OSHA/EPA inspection and compliance records
Boiler registry and safety inspection records
Facility construction and equipment specifications

Evidence & Public Records

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Source Type	Key Items	Date Range	Source (Level)	Notes
Public Equipment RegistryEIA	Boilers, turbine generation, fuel type, and capacity records	1970s–Present	Level 1A	Used for equipment, generation capacity, and operational activity documentation
State DNR RecordsKansas	Demolition, renovation notifications, and certification activity	1990s–Present	Level 1B	Supports material category documentation and trade activity
OSHA / EPA RecordsFederal	Inspections, enforcement, compliance, and regulatory publications	1970s–Present	Level 1B	Includes regulatory records relevant to facility activity and material use
Facility RecordsPrimary	Plant records, permits, reports, and facility specifications	Construction–Present	Level 4	Publicly available facility records and historical documents

Goodman Energy Center | — Frequently Asked Questions

Is Goodman Energy Center | documented in asbestos litigation records?

Yes. Goodman Energy Center | is documented in public asbestos litigation records, EPA NESHAP filings, OSHA inspection logs, and/or state regulatory databases. Workers at industrial facilities of this era routinely encountered asbestos-containing materials in pipe insulation, gaskets, packing, boiler block, refractory products, floor and ceiling tiles, and electrical components.

Which workers had the highest asbestos exposure at Goodman Energy Center |?

Trades with documented asbestos exposure at industrial facilities include pipefitters, insulators (laggers), boilermakers, millwrights, electricians, welders, sheet-metal workers, plumbers, carpenters, machinists, painters, and general laborers. Maintenance crews, refractory bricklayers, and shutdown contractors often had the most concentrated exposure during overhaul and tear-out work.

What asbestos products did workers handle at Goodman Energy Center |?

Asbestos-containing products commonly documented at industrial facilities of this era include thermal pipe lagging and block insulation (steam lines, valves, boilers), asbestos cement, refractory brick and burner-front gun-block, gaskets and braided packing (valves, pumps, flanges), boiler-tube insulation and lagging, vinyl asbestos floor tile, acoustic ceiling tile, and asbestos-containing transite board. Specific product manufacturers are catalogued at AsbestosIndex.

Is there a deadline to file an asbestos claim in Kansas?

Kansas law gives 2 years from the date of medical diagnosis to file a personal-injury asbestos lawsuit. Wrongful-death claims must be filed within 2 years from the date of death. The two deadlines run on separate tracks. The personal-injury clock starts at diagnosis, not at exposure — mesothelioma latency is typically 20 to 50 years.

Who else besides Goodman Energy Center | workers may have been exposed?

Yes. Spouses who laundered work clothing carrying asbestos fibers and children of workers who returned home covered in dust are recognized in Kansas asbestos litigation as eligible for secondary (household) exposure claims when they have been diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease. Wrongful-death claims may be filed by surviving family members.

Can workers file both a civil suit and trust-fund claims?

Yes — more than 60 asbestos bankruptcy trusts hold combined funds set aside specifically for victims of asbestos-related disease. Trust-fund claims and civil lawsuits run on separate tracks; both can be pursued in parallel. Each trust has its own filing requirements, exposure criteria, and processing timeline.

Disclaimer: The information in this article is for general educational purposes only and does not constitute medical or legal advice. No attorney-client relationship is created by reading this site. References to companies, products, and facilities are drawn from public asbestos litigation records, court filings, and regulatory databases. Consult a licensed physician for medical guidance and a qualified attorney for legal advice regarding your specific situation.

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