About Pinckneyville Power Station Pinckneyville Illinois
Location, Ownership, and Operations
The Pinckneyville Power Station sits in Pinckneyville, Perry County, Illinois — a Southern Illinois community with a long history of energy production and industrial manufacturing. The facility operated as a combined power generation station and oil/gas processing facility with a reported generating capacity of approximately 50 megawatts (MW).
Ownership records show:
- Operator: Ameren Corporation (current)
- Parent Company: Union Electric Co. (historical operator; merged with CIPSCO in 1997 to form Ameren Corp.)
- Reported Ownership: Ameren Corp. holds a reported 100% ownership interest
- Operating Period: Records reflect active operations since at least 2001
Historical Corporate Context
Union Electric Co. ranked among the largest electrical utilities in the Midwest, serving Illinois, Missouri, and neighboring states for much of the twentieth century. In 1997, Union Electric merged with CIPSCO Incorporated to form Ameren Corporation, an energy company that now operates multiple power stations, transmission infrastructure, and natural gas systems across Illinois and Missouri.
Ameren’s regional portfolio spans both sides of the Mississippi River industrial corridor and includes facilities with comparable historical asbestos exposure profiles:
- Labadie Energy Center (Franklin County, MO) — one of the largest coal-fired plants in the region, where insulators, boilermakers, and pipefitters may have been exposed to asbestos-containing materials for decades
- Portage des Sioux Power Plant (St. Charles County, MO) — a long-operating river facility reportedly containing extensive asbestos-containing pipe and boiler insulation
- Sioux Energy Center (St. Charles County, MO) — another facility with comparable asbestos-containing material profiles documented during abatement operations
- Rush Island Energy Center (Jefferson County, MO) — a coal-fired facility within the same Illinois–Missouri Ameren system
Workers who rotated among Ameren facilities — including those dispatched from the Heat and Frost Insulators, UA Pipefitters, or Boilermakers — may have accumulated asbestos exposures at multiple sites across the Ameren system.
If you worked at Pinckneyville Power Station and have been diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, the time to act is now. Do not wait.
Regional Industrial Context: Southern Illinois and the Mississippi River Industrial Corridor
Pinckneyville Power Station operates within Southern Illinois’ industrial belt, which adjoins the broader Mississippi River industrial corridor — the dense band of power plants, coal mines, refineries, chemical facilities, and steel mills running along the river and across Southern Illinois. This corridor includes major Illinois and regional industrial employers such as:
- Granite City Steel (Granite City, Madison County, IL) — a major steel producer where asbestos-containing materials were reportedly used extensively in coke ovens, blast furnaces, and rolling mills
- Monsanto Chemical (St. Louis County, MO) — a sprawling chemical complex where insulators and maintenance workers may have been exposed to asbestos-containing materials in high-temperature processing areas
- Labadie Energy Center (Franklin County, MO)
- Portage des Sioux Power Plant (St. Charles County, MO)
Illinois workers and tradespeople across this industrial corridor often moved between power plants, mines, chemical plants, and mills throughout the region — creating multi-site asbestos exposure histories that experienced Illinois toxic tort counsel know how to develop and pursue.
Asbestos-Containing Materials at This Facility
Like virtually all American power generation facilities built or extensively operated during the mid-to-late twentieth century, the Pinckneyville Power Station reportedly contained asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) — among them products allegedly supplied by major manufacturers — throughout its:
- Original construction
- Insulation systems
- Fireproofing
- Maintenance and repair operations
The facility’s combined power generation and oil/gas processing profile made asbestos-containing material use both common and, according to occupational health experts, standard industry practice during the decades when the plant was constructed and operated.
Workers at the Pinckneyville Power Station in Southern Illinois may have been exposed to asbestos-containing materials during decades of power generation and oil/gas processing operations. If you or a loved one developed mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related disease after working at this facility, you may be entitled to pursue a legal claim through litigation, settlement negotiations, or asbestos trust fund claims. This article explains the exposure risks at this facility, the diseases asbestos causes, and the legal remedies available to you and your family.
Pinckneyville Power Station sits in Perry County in Southern Illinois — a region with a long history of coal-fired power generation, mining, and heavy industry — where Illinois workers and building trades frequently moved from job site to job site for industrial work. Workers who lived in nearby Illinois communities, held union cards, or worked at more than one Ameren facility may have accumulated exposure across several plants and may have claims under Illinois law.
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General Equipment at Pinckneyville Power Station Pinckneyville Illinois
The equipment below represents the systems and infrastructure documented or typically present at this facility during the era when asbestos-containing materials were specified in industrial construction. This is general facility-equipment reference — not a legal attribution of any specific product, manufacturer, or exposure event to this facility. Material-category and manufacturer information is addressed in the AsbestosIndex Product Crosswalk linked under the records table below.
Documented Asbestos Evidence — Illinois
The records below are verified, state-documented asbestos removals at this facility. Each entry represents a regulated abatement project where the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (Illinois EPA) was notified under federal NESHAP rules, the work was logged, and the asbestos-containing material was confirmed and removed under regulated conditions. These are not allegations or estimates — they are paper records tying documented asbestos-containing material to this specific site.
No Illinois EPA NESHAP abatement notifications have been identified for this facility in current public records. Per the framing above, absence of state-agency documentation should not be read as absence of asbestos — only as absence of a formal, regulated abatement event meeting reporting thresholds. Workers who recall encountering pipe insulation, block insulation, gaskets, or other asbestos-era construction materials at this facility may still have viable claims regardless of whether a state record exists.
Material Categories in Documented Records
The materials documented above (and similar asbestos-containing materials commonly encountered in records of this type) appear in the AsbestosIndex catalog with historical manufacturer and trust-fund information. Click a category to view manufacturers historically associated with that material:
Illinois — Filing Deadline & Next Steps
Illinois law gives mesothelioma and asbestos-disease claimants 2 years from the date of medical diagnosis to file a personal-injury lawsuit (735 ILCS 5/13-202). For wrongful-death claims after an asbestos-related death, the filing window is 2 years from the date of death (740 ILCS 180/2). The two deadlines run on separate tracks — preserving one does not extend the other.
The personal-injury clock runs from diagnosis, not from exposure. Mesothelioma latency is typically 20 to 50 years, so workers exposed in the 1950s–1980s are being diagnosed today.
Practical first steps
- Document what you remember. Pay stubs, W-2s, union cards, photographs, coworker names, and dates of employment. The WorkChain widget on this page can save a copy you can email yourself.
- Preserve medical records. Pathology reports, biopsy results, imaging, and pulmonary-function tests are central to both civil claims and trust-fund filings.
- Identify household members. Spouses who laundered work clothing and children of plant workers are eligible for secondary-exposure claims when diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease.
- Speak with an asbestos attorney with Illinois experience. The first conversation is free and confidential. Asbestos trust-fund claims and civil claims run on different tracks — both can be pursued in parallel.
Asbestos-Related Diseases — Illinois
Asbestos fiber exposure can cause several specific diseases that typically appear decades after the original exposure. The latency period — the gap between exposure and diagnosis — usually runs 20 to 50 years. That's why workers exposed in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s are receiving diagnoses today.
Mesothelioma
A rare, aggressive cancer that affects the lining of the lungs (pleural mesothelioma), abdomen (peritoneal), or heart (pericardial). Mesothelioma is almost exclusively caused by asbestos exposure, which is why a mesothelioma diagnosis often points directly to historical workplace exposure. Average latency from first exposure to diagnosis is 30-50 years.
Asbestosis
A chronic, non-cancerous scarring of lung tissue caused by inhaled asbestos fibers. Asbestosis causes progressive shortness of breath, persistent cough, and reduced lung function. It does not improve with treatment, and it is a recognized basis for a claim under most trust schedules and civil claims.
Lung Cancer
Asbestos exposure significantly increases the risk of lung cancer, particularly when combined with a history of smoking. Asbestos-related lung cancer is compensable under the same trust schedules and civil claim avenues as mesothelioma.
Other Recognized Diseases
Pleural plaques, pleural thickening, laryngeal cancer, ovarian cancer, and certain gastrointestinal cancers are also recognized as asbestos-related under various trust schedules and case-law authorities, though eligibility and proof requirements vary by claim type.
If you have any of these diagnoses and you worked at this facility, lived with someone who did, or were exposed in any documented capacity, you may have a claim worth pursuing. Speak with an attorney before assuming you don't qualify.
Data Sources — Illinois
Information about facility equipment, industrial materials, and occupational records referenced on this page is drawn from publicly available sources where applicable, including:
- EPA ECHO Facility Compliance Database — enforcement and compliance records for industrial facilities
- OSHA Establishment Search — federal workplace inspection history
- EIA Form 860 Plant Data — power-plant equipment and ownership records (where applicable)
- Illinois Environmental Protection Agency NESHAP asbestos abatement notification records
- Published asbestos trial and trust fund records (publicly filed court documents)
- AsbestosIndex Product & Manufacturer Crosswalk — historical asbestos-containing product schedules linked to manufacturers
If specific equipment or product claims in this article are sourced from a non-public database, the source is identified parenthetically within the text above.