Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]Perez v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., 223 F. Supp. 3d 756 (S.D. Ill. Nov 30, 2016), No. 3:16-cv-00842-NJR-DGW (motion-to-remand order); companion order Perez v. Air and Liquid Systems Corp., 2016 WL 7049153 (S.D. Ill. Dec. 2, 2016) [court_record]
- Locator
- 223 F. Supp. 3d at 758-762 (complaint recital; 1442 analysis); CourtListener cluster 7323181 - full text verified via ecases.us mirror (public page fetch empty)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Published federal opinion records the complaint's allegation that decedent Armando Perez 'was exposed to asbestos while serving in the U.S. Navy, primarily aboard the USS Maryland, from 1944 to 1946' and developed mesothelioma leading to death (wrongful-death action by Sylvia Perez; product defendants incl. Air & Liquid Systems as successor to Buffalo Pumps, Crane Co., GE). Filed in the Circuit Court of Madison County, Illinois June 1, 2016; removed by Crane Co. under 28 U.S.C. 1442 (federal officer); plaintiff's motion to remand denied.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (alleged exposure); 2016 (opinions)
- Population
- USS Maryland crewman 1944-46 (alleged); mesothelioma; wrongful death
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation recited in a jurisdictional opinion - not a judicial finding that asbestos was aboard or that exposure occurred. The companion Dec 2, 2016 order dismissed certain defendants on personal-jurisdiction (Daimler) grounds; likewise procedural. Plaintiff's own remand argument noted Crane had produced 'no evidence of any contracts under which Crane Co. supplied equipment to the Navy or to the USS Maryland.' Prior docket review (class-profile pass, 2026-09-16) documented termination 2018-03-13 via stipulated dismissal with prejudice, good-faith settlement finding, and clerk's judgment; the docket tail could not be re-pulled this pass (CourtListener API throttled). Stage remains allegation-level per the tie-break rule.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maryland-bb46-01
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[2]DANFS, Maryland III (BB-46) - builder, spec block, Pearl Harbor damage, repair/modernization narrative, inactivation and sale (verbatim transcription; live NHHC page unavailable); NHHC Online Library Colorado-class page corroborates turbo-electric plant and the late-1944/1945 sixteen-gun 5-inch/38 rearmament [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS BB-46 entry - spec block + repair/refit paragraphs; ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/usnshtp/bb/bb45cl.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official ship history documents the exposure-relevant work periods for this hull: construction at Newport News 1917-21; Puget Sound Navy Yard repair from 30 Dec 1941 - 'emerged 26 February 1942 not only repaired but modernized'; Bremerton overhaul with new guns Feb-Apr 1944; Pearl Harbor Navy Yard repair of torpedo damage Jul-19 Aug 1944 (34 days, around-the-clock); Pearl Harbor repair of kamikaze damage 18 Dec 1944 - Feb 1945; Bremerton Navy Yard extensive overhaul 8 May - Aug 1945 (with 5-inch/38 rearmament per NHHC class page); inactivation at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard from 15 Apr 1946; decommissioned Bremerton 3 Apr 1947; Pacific Reserve Fleet to 1959; sold for scrapping to Learner Co. of Oakland, Calif. 8 Jul 1959; seven battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1917-1959
- Population
- Newport News construction trades 1917-20; Puget Sound and Pearl Harbor Navy Yard workers 1941-46; crew
- Limitations
- Authoritative for dates and yard periods; contains no asbestos or insulation content. Sale date conflicts with secondary sources printing 15 July 1959 (DANFS 8 July used). ibiblio transcription of official DANFS text; class page via ibiblio mirror of NHHC Online Library.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maryland-bb46-02
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[3]U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (1945), Battleships (BB) tables pp. 18-25 (shipscribe.com scan SDB1945v1.pdf, OCR-extracted) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf book pp. 18-25; local OCR of characteristics, machinery, and historical tables (PDF pp. 19-22)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official 1945 tables list for BB-46: builder Newport News S.B. Co., contract $17,020,800, keel 24 Apr 1917, commissioned 21 Jul 1921; machinery: 4 propeller shafts, 'G.E. turb. elec.' drive, 29,500 total horsepower, 8 boilers at 280 psi; 1945 wartime complement 135 officers + 1,914 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1945 (record); 1917-21 (construction)
- Population
- Crew 1945; construction yard workers 1917-21
- Limitations
- Corrects the Colorado-class profile's attribution of Westinghouse turbo-generators to BB-46 - the Ships' Data machinery table shows Westinghouse on BB-45 and G.E. on BB-46/BB-48. OCR extraction from scan without text layer; boiler manufacturer cell for the BB-46 row was not cleanly legible (class documentation asserts Babcock & Wilcox - not re-verified to this row and not asserted here). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maryland-bb46-03
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[4]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships Technical Manual, NAVSHIPS 250-000, Chapter 39 'Thermal Insulation' (1960, page date 15 April 1959) [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips TM ch.39, sections 39-11 through 39-13; DANFS repair narrative
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- As built 1917-21, Maryland's eight-boiler turbo-electric steam plant and associated piping were insulated under era Navy specifications; the BuShips Technical Manual ch. 39 (1960) enumerates the material family in fleet use for such plants: 85%-magnesia pipe covering (~15% asbestos fiber, MIL-P-2781), amosite-fiber covering, asbestos felt, SS-C-466 chrysotile cloth/tape lagging, HH-M-351 asbestos millboard, and MIL-C-2908 asbestos finishing cement. The five documented wartime repair/modernization yard periods (1941-42 Puget Sound; 1944 Bremerton; 1944 and 1944-45 Pearl Harbor; 1945 Bremerton) and the 1946 inactivation repeatedly opened and disturbed original insulation systems.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1917-1946; 1960 (manual describes era-standard practice)
- Population
- Construction trades 1917-21; Navy Yard workers 1941-46; crew
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - the 1960 manual postdates construction by ~40 years but describes the same insulation-material family standard from the 1920s; no hull-specific insulation schedule or survey located. Insulation disturbance during damage repairs is inference from work scope, not documented abatement. No quantity; does not establish materials installed on or remaining aboard this hull. Retrieved PDF is a scan hosted in the Garlock bankruptcy Daubert-appendix repository.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maryland-bb46-04
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[5]Historic American Engineering Record, U.S. Naval Base Pearl Harbor, Berthing Wharf S378 (Berthing Wharf F-5), HAER HI,2-PEHA,60 (Library of Congress) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER HI,2-PEHA,60 significance statement
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Federal engineering record for the F-5 berthing wharf names this hull: USS MARYLAND was berthed inboard of USS OKLAHOMA at F-5 on the morning of 7 Dec 1941, was struck by two 15-inch armor-piercing bombs causing considerable flooding, and - no drydock being available - 'the Navy Yard, assisted by the forces afloat, made repairs to the MARYLAND elsewhere without docking' before her Puget Sound yard period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1941
- Population
- Pearl Harbor Navy Yard workers, Dec 1941
- Limitations
- The record's subject is the wharf, not the vessel - it corroborates the Pearl Harbor bomb damage and afloat repair work documented by DANFS; contains no asbestos or insulation content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maryland-bb46-05
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos-protection program and its 1975/1979 insulation-removal policies (asbestos insulation removed only when damaged or required for repairs), with fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation postdating this hull's 1959 scrapping and naming no Colorado-class hull; era context for the insulation policies governing the fleet Maryland belonged to, not hull evidence. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maryland-bb46-06
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[7]Batch-163 search ledger (this record): CourtListener/web-index litigation sweeps; NPS/NRHP; museum and agency disclosures; MARAD; scrapping-disposal records [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-maryland-bb46-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos documentation located beyond the Perez allegation: no hull insulation schedule, asbestos survey, abatement contract, or hazmat disclosure was found in the public sources searched - and none can postdate 1959, when the hull was sold and scrapped by Learner Co. of Oakland.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record does not prove absence - 1959 disposal/scrapping records and the BuShips/Navy-yard work packages in NARA RG 19 are unmined, and the litigation allegation is consistent with era-standard insulation aboard but remains unadjudicated. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maryland-bb46-07
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[8]NARA Record Group 19, Bureau of Ships series - known holding, not yet searched [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19 (not yet searched)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Likeliest unmined ship-specific sources: BB-46 construction correspondence (Newport News, 1916-21); Puget Sound Navy Yard work packages for the 1941-42 repair-modernization, the 1944 gun overhaul, and the 1945 extensive overhaul; Pearl Harbor Navy Yard 1944-45 battle-damage repair records; and the 1959 sale/scrapping disposal file (Learner Co.).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- n/a
- Limitations
- Holding location inferred from standard BuShips records disposition; specific series and box numbers not identified; not consulted for this pass.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maryland-bb46-08