Service Description
Kickham Boiler & Engineering, Inc. is a long-established St. Louis, Missouri-based boiler installation, repair, refractory, and engineering services contractor. Through the asbestos era, Kickham dispatched boiler-makers, refractory masons, mechanical contractors, and supporting trades to industrial customers across the Mid-Mississippi Valley region — Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, and broader Mid-Mississippi Valley industrial corridor — for boiler installation, major overhauls, refractory repair, and emergency outage support.
Kickham Boiler & Engineering has been named as a corporate defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos litigation in Missouri and Illinois venues — including the Madison County Illinois Third Judicial Circuit (e.g., Boyle, Edward J. v. Union Carbide Corporation, et al., where Kickham filed a Motion to Dismiss Plaintiff’s Complaint).
Asbestos Exposure Pathway
Workers performing boiler installation, repair, and refractory work for Kickham — and bystander workers at customer industrial sites where Kickham crews operated — were exposed to asbestos during:
- Boiler refractory installation — handling asbestos-bearing castable, gunite, brick, and plastic refractory
- Boiler insulation work — applying and removing asbestos block insulation, pipe covering, and finishing cements
- Boiler gasket replacement — handling asbestos manhole, handhole, and steam-drum penetration gaskets
- Boiler steam-system service — disturbing asbestos pipe insulation on connected steam, condensate, feed-water, and fuel-oil piping