Product Description

Ingersoll-Rand’s KVSR series was a slow-speed integral gas engine-compressor deployed across U.S. natural gas pipeline mainline compressor stations from the 1940s through the 1970s. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, KVSR units were allegedly wrapped with asbestos-containing cloth lagging around the power-cylinder jackets and exhaust manifolds, and allegedly used asbestos head gaskets and allegedly asbestos rope packing around the cylinder heads and exhaust port covers.

Workers Exposed

Pipeline compressor station operators, compressor station millwrights, natural gas pipeline mechanics, and pipeline pipefitters allegedly disturbed asbestos-containing lagging, gaskets, and rope packing during scheduled overhauls, valve replacements, and cylinder-head service on Ingersoll-Rand KVSR units, according to publicly filed asbestos litigation records.