Boilermakers Local Lodge No. 107 · Brookfield, WI

Union: International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers & Helpers (IBB) Local Lodge Number: 107 Hall Address: 3185 Gateway Road, Suite 200, Brookfield, WI 53045 AFL-CIO Affiliated Jurisdiction: Greater Milwaukee metropolitan area and Eastern Wisconsin industrial corridor — including Milwaukee, Waukesha, Sheboygan, Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay paper-mill, food-processing, brewery, manufacturing, and utility power-generation work

Local 107 Trade Work and Jurisdictional Coverage

Boilermakers Local Lodge 107 dispatches journeyman boilermakers, welders, apprentices, and field-construction crews to industrial work sites across the jurisdiction. Documented jurisdictional trade work includes:

  • Power plant boiler construction, repair, retubing, and tear-down — utility-scale and industrial boilers at coal-fired, gas-fired, and combined-cycle power generating stations
  • Refinery boiler and pressure-vessel work — process heaters, recovery boilers, and refinery turnaround / outage work
  • Industrial boiler installation and maintenance at steel mills, breweries, food processors, paper mills, chemical plants, automotive plants, and railroad maintenance facilities
  • Pressure-vessel fabrication and shop work at fabrication shops serving the broader regional industrial base
  • Welding, plate work, structural steel, blacksmithing, and forge work under IBB jurisdiction

Asbestos Exposure for Local 107 Boilermakers — Documented Pathways

Per publicly filed allegations in U.S. asbestos litigation, Boilermakers Local 107 members allegedly worked alongside (and after) Heat & Frost Insulators applying and removing asbestos-bearing pipe insulation, block insulation, mud insulation, cloth, paper, and gaskets during boiler-room construction and turnaround work throughout the 1940s-1980s asbestos era. Specific Local 107 trade-work exposure pathways allegedly included:

  • Boiler tube replacement and retubing — handling asbestos-bearing tube-sheet gaskets, asbestos block insulation removed from boiler exteriors, and asbestos-rope packing at boiler doors and access ports
  • Pressure-vessel welding and burning — working around and through asbestos pipe insulation, asbestos rope, and asbestos cloth used to wrap and protect pipes during cutting and welding operations
  • Furnace and combustion-chamber tear-down — exposure to asbestos refractory blanket, asbestos cement, asbestos-bearing gaskets, and asbestos cloth removed during furnace teardown
  • Heat-exchanger and condenser overhaul — handling asbestos gaskets at tube-sheet flanges, asbestos rope at manhole covers, and asbestos-paper-faced insulating board
  • Power-plant outage / turnaround work — concentrated multi-week exposure to asbestos materials at boiler-room and turbine-deck work zones
  • Refinery turnaround work — process-heater dismantling, recovery-boiler overhaul, and pressure-vessel servicing
  • Asbestos-bearing rope and gland packing — handling at flange, valve, and pressure-fitting interfaces throughout boiler-room work

Documented Asbestos-Bearing Materials Encountered

  • Asbestos pipe insulation and block insulation (Johns-Manville, Owens Corning Kaylo, Pittsburgh Corning Unibestos, Eagle-Picher, Armstrong Cork, H.K. Porter, Philip Carey)
  • Asbestos cement insulation and “mud” (Insulag, Kaylo Cement, Eagle 66)
  • Asbestos-bearing gaskets at boiler flanges, manhole covers, tube-sheet interfaces (Garlock, John Crane, Anchor Packing, Klinger, Flexitallic)
  • Asbestos rope and gland packing — boiler door rope, valve packing, gland-sealing applications
  • Asbestos cloth and asbestos blanket — welder blankets, pipe wrap, fire-blanket protection during burning operations
  • Asbestos refractory and furnace cement — boiler combustion-chamber and furnace-wall applications
  • Asbestos-paper-faced insulating board — gauge-panel and control-cabinet barriers

Wisconsin Industrial Sites Likely Served by Local 107

Documented Wisconsin industrial facilities where Local 107 boilermakers allegedly performed boiler-room and pressure-vessel work include:

  • Allis-Chalmers / Siemens West Allis — transformer and switchgear plant boiler-room and pressure-vessel work
  • Allen-Bradley / Rockwell Automation Milwaukee — motor controls and switchgear in-plant boiler work
  • A.O. Smith Milwaukee — water heater and motor plant boiler rooms
  • Briggs & Stratton Milwaukee — small engine in-plant boiler rooms
  • Johnson Controls Milwaukee — building controls and HVAC in-plant boiler work
  • Cooper Power Systems Waukesha — transformer plant boiler work
  • Plenco Sheboygan — phenolic compound manufacturing boiler-room work
  • Miller Brewing Milwaukee — large-scale brewery boiler rooms
  • Pabst, Schlitz, and Heileman breweries (Milwaukee, La Crosse) — brewery boiler rooms
  • Kohler Co. Kohler — plumbing fixture and engine plant boiler rooms
  • Mead / Stora Enso paper mills (Wisconsin Rapids, Mosinee, Stevens Point) — paper mill recovery boilers and process steam
  • We Energies / Wisconsin Electric coal-fired power plants — Oak Creek, Pleasant Prairie, Pulliam, Edgewater

For documented facility-level exposure histories at these and other Wisconsin industrial sites, see wisconsinmesothelioma.com .

Industrial Substation and Transformer Crosswalk

Boilermaker Local 107 members working in boiler rooms allegedly also encountered asbestos-bearing electrical-distribution components — phenolic spacers, Westinghouse Micarta laminate, Bakelite-type laminate, asbestos gaskets, and phenolic-asbestos bushings — at power plant and industrial substation transformers and switchgear adjacent to boiler-room work zones. See:

Retiree Club

Retiree club information for Local 107 has not yet been confirmed. If you are an officer or member of the Local 107 retiree club and would like your group’s contact information listed here, contact us at [email protected] .

Occupational Disease Resources

Boilermakers active during the period from approximately 1940 through the early 1980s were routinely exposed to asbestos-containing pipe insulation, block insulation, refractory cement, gaskets, rope packing, cloth, and joint compound at industrial and commercial boiler-room jobsites.

Conditions associated with this exposure include mesothelioma, asbestosis, asbestos-related lung cancer, and pleural disease. These conditions can have latency periods of 20–50 years and may not appear until decades after exposure ended.

Resources:

If you or a family member worked as a Boilermaker dispatched by Local 107 to Wisconsin industrial facilities — and have since been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related disease — you may have legal rights. Asbestos-related diseases can develop silently for 20, 30, or even 40 years after initial exposure.

Free, confidential case evaluation with experience handling Wisconsin cases: Speak with O’Brien Law Firm — (314) 237-3332

All consultations are free. No fee unless a financial recovery is made on your behalf.

This page is an independent reference. It is not affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers or Local Lodge 107. Information reflects publicly filed asbestos litigation, federal regulatory records, and industry archives, and does not constitute a finding of fact or liability with respect to any specific employer, manufacturer, supplier, or contractor.