Boilermakers Local Lodge No. 83 · Kansas City, MO

Union: International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers & Helpers (IBB) Local Lodge Number: 83 Hall Address: 5910 East 86th Street, Raytown, MO 64138 (Jackson County, Kansas City metro) AFL-CIO Affiliated Jurisdiction: Greater Kansas City metropolitan area (Missouri side) plus surrounding Western Missouri counties — power-plant, refinery, steel mill, brewery, food-processing, paper mill, and industrial-boiler construction, repair, and tear-down

Local 83 Trade Work and Jurisdictional Coverage

Boilermakers Local Lodge 83 dispatches journeyman boilermakers, welders, apprentices, and field-construction crews to industrial work sites across the Kansas City Missouri side. 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 Western Missouri industrial base
  • Welding, plate work, structural steel, blacksmithing, and forge work under IBB jurisdiction

Asbestos Exposure for Local 83 Boilermakers — Documented Pathways

Per publicly filed allegations in U.S. asbestos litigation, Boilermakers Local 83 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 83 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

Western Missouri Industrial Sites Likely Served by Local 83

Documented Kansas City / Western Missouri industrial facilities where Local 83 boilermakers allegedly performed boiler-room and pressure-vessel work include:

  • Anheuser-Busch breweries and brewery boiler rooms (Kansas City and other facilities)
  • Bendix Kansas City (defense and brake manufacturing in-plant boiler rooms)
  • Ford Claycomo Assembly (automotive in-plant boiler rooms)
  • General Motors Leeds Kansas City Assembly (automotive in-plant boiler rooms)
  • Sheffield Steel Kansas City (steel mill boiler and pressure-vessel work)
  • Cooper’s Brewing / regional breweries (industrial brewery boiler rooms)
  • Cudahy / ConAgra meatpacking plants (food-processing boiler rooms)
  • Union Pacific Railroad Kansas City (railroad locomotive shop and maintenance facility boiler work)
  • KCP&L / Evergy coal-fired power plants — Hawthorn, La Cygne, Iatan, and other utility generating stations in the Western Missouri / Eastern Kansas region
  • Phillips, ConocoPhillips, and Sinclair refineries in the Kansas City / Eastern Kansas refinery corridor
  • C.M. Moore Company / Majors Plastics Inc. — Kansas City, MO (custom thermoset / phenolic molder)
  • Toastmaster Inc. / McGraw-Edison — Boonville, MO (Western Missouri appliance plant with boiler-room and pressure-vessel work)

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

Industrial Substation and Transformer Crosswalk

Boilermaker Local 83 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 83 has not yet been confirmed. If you are an officer or member of the Local 83 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 83 to Kansas City / Western Missouri 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 Missouri 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 83. 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.