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 Missouri, Illinois, and neighboring states for much of the twentieth century. In 1997, Union Electric merged with CIPSCO Incorporated to form Ameren Corporation, a St. Louis–based energy company that now operates multiple power stations, transmission infrastructure, and natural gas systems across Missouri and Illinois.

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 Missouri, 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 Missouri River facility reportedly containing extensive asbestos-containing pipe and boiler insulation
  • Sioux Energy Center (St. Charles County, MO) — another Missouri facility with comparable asbestos-containing material profiles documented during abatement operations
  • Rush Island Energy Center (Jefferson County, MO) — a Jefferson County coal-fired facility within the same Missouri–Illinois Ameren system

Workers who rotated among these Ameren facilities — including those dispatched from Heat and Frost Insulators Local 1 (St. Louis), UA Local 562 (St. Louis), or Boilermakers Local 27 (St. Louis) — may have accumulated asbestos exposures at multiple sites across both Missouri and Illinois.

If you worked at Pinckneyville Power Station and have been diagnosed with an asbestos-related disease, the time to act is now. Illinois’s two-year statute of limitations under 735 ILCS 5/13-202 begins running from your diagnosis date — and pending 2026 legislation (HB1649) could impose new procedural requirements on asbestos trust fund claims filed after August 28, 2026. Do not wait.

Regional Industrial Context: The Mississippi River Industrial Corridor

Pinckneyville Power Station operates within the broader Mississippi River industrial corridor — the dense belt of power plants, refineries, chemical facilities, and steel mills stretching from St. Louis south through Southern Illinois and into the Missouri Bootheel. This corridor includes major Missouri and Illinois 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)

Workers and tradespeople across this industrial corridor often held Missouri union cards, lived in Missouri communities, and worked at both Missouri and Illinois facilities — creating multi-site asbestos exposure histories that experienced regional 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 manufactured by , and other major suppliers — 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 financial compensation 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 Southern Illinois — directly across the Mississippi River industrial corridor from Missouri — placing it within the broader St. Louis–area industrial zone where Missouri and Illinois workers and trades frequently crossed state lines for industrial work. Workers who held Missouri union cards, lived in Missouri, or worked at both Missouri and Illinois Ameren facilities may have rights under both Missouri and Illinois law.

Time is not on your side. Illinois’s two-year filing deadline runs from your diagnosis date — and pending 2026 legislation could impose new requirements that complicate your case before that deadline even arrives. An experienced Illinois mesothelioma lawyer can protect your rights. Call today.

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.

Boilers View crosswalk › Steam Turbines View crosswalk › Steam Traps View crosswalk › Condensers View crosswalk › Feedwater Heaters View crosswalk › Cooling Towers View crosswalk › Pipe Insulation View crosswalk › Block Insulation View crosswalk › Refractory Lining View crosswalk › Valves View crosswalk › Gaskets View crosswalk › Pumps View crosswalk ›

Documented Asbestos Evidence

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:

Thermal System Insulation View crosswalk › Asbestos-Cement Board View crosswalk › Pipe Insulation View crosswalk › Roofing & Flashing View crosswalk › Spray Fireproofing View crosswalk › Floor Tile & Mastic View crosswalk › Ceiling Tile View crosswalk › Gaskets & Packing View crosswalk ›

Critical 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

  1. 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.
  2. Preserve medical records. Pathology reports, biopsy results, imaging, and pulmonary-function tests are central to both civil claims and trust-fund filings.
  3. 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.
  4. 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

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 compensation 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

Information about facility equipment, industrial materials, and occupational records referenced on this page is drawn from publicly available sources where applicable, including:

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.