New Mexico's industrial jobs sat far apart, and each pocket of work grew up around something in the ground or something the federal government needed built in the desert. San Juan Basin coal fired two of the largest power stations in the West; natural gas from the San Juan and Permian basins moved through El Paso Natural Gas's plants and compressor stations; potash, copper, and uranium came out of mines with mills and smelters beside them; and from 1943 on, weapons laboratories and test ranges went up on the mesas and in the basins. The boilers, kilns, furnaces, compressors, and steam lines in every one of those places were wrapped and sealed with asbestos. Laid out on a map, the trusts' New Mexico entries fall into a few far-flung pockets:
- the San Juan Basin — the Four Corners Power Plant at Fruitland, the worksite more trusts recognize than any other in the state, and the San Juan Generating Station at Waterflow;
- the southeastern oil and gas country — El Paso Natural Gas's Jal plants, Warren Petroleum at Hobbs, and the Lea County Electric Cooperative's Lovington power plant;
- the Carlsbad potash district — the mines and refineries of United States Potash, Potash Company of America, and International Minerals & Chemical;
- copper and uranium country — the Chino mill and smelter at Hurley and Anaconda's uranium mill near Grants; and
- Albuquerque and the federal mesas — the Public Service Company of New Mexico's Reeves and Person stations, Sandia, and Los Alamos.
When these companies went bankrupt, the trusts set up to pay their asbestos claims each published a list of locations where its products were proven to be present. For New Mexico, those lists hold 365 entries across 62 communities, from 25 asbestos trusts. One plant can appear many times, under different names or on different trusts' lists. More than a dozen of our clients worked at New Mexico job sites.
Every asbestos trust claim has to prove two things: that a company's asbestos-containing product was present at a job site, and that the worker handled that product, or worked close enough to it, to breathe its dust. If you or your loved one worked at a site on those lists during the applicable years, the first half is already established, because the trust has acknowledged its products were there.
We help workers who are alive and recently diagnosed, adult children and spouses researching on behalf of someone who is sick, and families of workers who have already passed away from mesothelioma, lung cancer, or asbestosis. If you are a worker who has just been diagnosed, calling early keeps more options open for your family. There is still a claim to be made for families of workers who have already passed; we handle wrongful death cases routinely.
You don't need the product names or old records. No fee unless we recover compensation for your family.
New Mexico filing deadlines and trust eligibility, in brief
New Mexico gives a diagnosed worker three years to file a personal-injury claim. Exactly when the clock starts varies, so to be safe, count from the date of diagnosis. If an earlier X-ray, CT scan or screening showed asbestos-related scarring, a New Mexico court may count the three years from that earlier finding, so call us right away. A separate deadline applies once a worker has passed away. If your loved one is alive and diagnosed, calling early keeps more options open.
New Mexico deadlines, the wrongful-death rule, and how they apply to your family
Most workers exposed before 1983 can also file against the Johns-Manville Settlement Trust independently of anything documented at a specific site. How trust eligibility works.
We help families of workers who have already passed away. Wrongful death claims are filed routinely in New Mexico, including for workers who died years ago.
Free family asbestos health screening. Our representation includes free asbestos health screening for family members of every client who may have been exposed at home through work clothes or vehicle dust. The screening is a chest X-ray read by a B-reader, with a CT scan if needed; it looks for asbestos-related changes in the lungs and isn't a diagnosis or a reliable way to find mesothelioma early.
The sites profiled below show confirmed asbestos products based on the asbestos trusts established for companies that did business there. Those trusts exist because Clarence Borel, a Gulf Coast insulator, chose to sue in 1969 — not for himself, but because he realized his coworkers would die the same way he was dying. His decision created the legal framework that produced the trust system you're about to scan.
Today the choice is yours. You can file trust claims based on the documented exposure at your loved one's worksite — paper claims, no courtroom. Or you can follow Clarence Borel and also sue the manufacturers and premises owners directly, which allows us to build a full exposure profile for every site your loved one worked at and recover from defendants the trust system doesn't reach. Read his story.
Asbestos trust coverage across New Mexico
The Johns-Manville Settlement Trust is open to most workers exposed before 1983, regardless of which specific worksite the exposure occurred at. Johns-Manville supplied so much asbestos and so many asbestos products across so many American industries that the trust does not require site-specific documentation. For mesothelioma claims, even one day of asbestos exposure before December 31, 1982 (at work or through a family member's work clothes brought into the home) can qualify a worker for Johns-Manville Settlement Trust compensation.
For lung cancer, asbestosis, and other non-mesothelioma asbestos diseases, the threshold is 60 months of total asbestos exposure with at least 6 months occurring before December 31, 1982. The one-day-of-exposure threshold for mesothelioma reflects how the disease actually develops (even brief exposure can cause it) and most major asbestos trusts apply similarly low-threshold eligibility for mesothelioma claims.
Because Johns-Manville keeps no site list of its own, every worksite on another trust's list also qualifies for Johns-Manville. Twenty-four other trusts list New Mexico worksites. The number of New Mexico entries on each trust's list:
- Johns-Manville: no list of its own; every site on the other trusts' lists qualifies
- Babcock & Wilcox: 102 entries (industrial and utility boilers)
- Owens Corning: 56 entries (Kaylo and high-temperature pipe and block insulation)
- DII Industries (Halliburton): 36 entries (pumps, compressors and oilfield equipment)
- A.P. Green: 35 entries (refractory brick, castables and cements)
- Fibreboard: 35 entries (Pabco pipe and block insulation)
- J.T. Thorpe (California): 17 entries (insulation and refractory contracting)
- Eagle-Picher: 15 entries (insulating cements and pipe covering)
- Combustion Engineering: 14 entries (boilers and refractory)
- Owens-Illinois: 11 entries (Kaylo pipe and block insulation)
- U.S. Gypsum: 11 entries (joint compound, plaster and acoustical products)
- W.R. Grace: 8 entries (Monokote spray fireproofing and Zonolite)
- Burns & Roe: 5 entries (power-plant engineering and construction)
- J.T. Thorpe (Texas): 4 entries (insulation and refractory contracting)
- Flintkote: 2 entries (roofing, flooring and building products)
- Fuller-Austin: 2 entries (insulation contracting)
- NARCO: 2 entries (refractory gun mixes and castables)
- Pittsburgh Corning: 2 entries (Unibestos pipe insulation)
- Plibrico: 2 entries (refractory plastics and castables)
- ACandS: 1 entry (insulation contracting)
- Armstrong World Industries: 1 entry (insulation contracting and floor products)
- DII Industries (Harbison-Walker): 1 entry (refractory brick and castables)
- GAF: 1 entry (roofing and building products)
- Raytech: 1 entry (friction products)
- Thorpe Insulation: 1 entry (insulation contracting)
Trust coverage at this depth means most New Mexico workers with significant industrial exposure histories will trigger filings against multiple trusts simultaneously — typically Johns-Manville plus the site-specific trusts documented at their worksites.
New Mexico cities and their industries
Open a city to see the worksites there that the asbestos trusts recognize, grouped by industry, with why each industry used asbestos.
CarlsbadCarlsbad has been the center of American potash mining since the 1930s, with a string of mines and surface refineries east of town run by United States Potash, Potash Company of America, National Potash, Duval, and International Minerals & Chemical.
Mines and ore mills. Mines and ore mills ran powerhouses, boilers, compressors, and steam lines insulated and sealed with asbestos, and their mills and smelters used asbestos refractory.
- Duval Sulphur & Potash
- International Minerals & Chemical
- National Potash Co
- Potash Co of America
- United States Potash
AlbuquerqueAlbuquerque holds more than a fifth of New Mexico's entries: the Public Service Company of New Mexico's Person and Reeves generating stations, Kirtland Air Force Base, and Sandia's weapons laboratories beside it.
Military installations. Military bases ran boiler plants, steam distribution systems, and aircraft and vehicle maintenance shops, and built and renovated for decades with asbestos-containing materials.
- Kirtland Air Force Base
- Sandia Laboratories
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- Person Generating Station (Public Service Company of New Mexico)
- Reeves Generating Station (Public Service Company of New Mexico)
GrantsGrants sat at the heart of the uranium belt found in the early 1950s, where Anaconda and United Nuclear–Homestake ran mills that turned ore into yellowcake.
Mines and ore mills. Mines and ore mills ran powerhouses, boilers, compressors, and steam lines insulated and sealed with asbestos, and their mills and smelters used asbestos refractory.
- Anaconda Company (Anaconda Copper Mining)
- United Nuclear–Homestake Partners
FruitlandFruitland, west of Farmington in the San Juan Basin, is home to the Four Corners Power Plant, the coal-fired station Arizona Public Service built on Navajo Nation land in the 1960s.
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- Four Corners Power Plant (Arizona Public Service)
HurleyHurley was the company town for the Chino copper mill and smelter, which processed ore from the Santa Rita open pit under Kennecott and later Phelps Dodge.
Mines and ore mills. Mines and ore mills ran powerhouses, boilers, compressors, and steam lines insulated and sealed with asbestos, and their mills and smelters used asbestos refractory.
- Chino Mines (Kennecott Copper, later Phelps Dodge)
Los AlamosLos Alamos was built in 1943 for the Manhattan Project; the Zia Company maintained the laboratory and the town for decades afterward.
Military installations. Military bases ran boiler plants, steam distribution systems, and aircraft and vehicle maintenance shops, and built and renovated for decades with asbestos-containing materials.
- Los Alamos laboratory and townsite (Zia Company)
Other New Mexico communitiesOne worksite each in 11 more communities.
Refineries and petrochemical plants. Refineries ran on heat: crude heaters, cat crackers, boilers, and miles of steam and process piping, all insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products into the late 1970s. Insulators, pipefitters, boilermakers, and the contract crews who worked turnarounds carried the heaviest exposure.
- Ciniza plant — Gallup
- El Paso Natural Gas — Chaco plant — Farmington
- El Paso Natural Gas — Jal plants — Jal
- Warren Petroleum Co — Hobbs
Public and commercial buildings. Office towers, hospitals, schools, hotels, and government buildings were built with asbestos fireproofing, insulation, plaster, and floor tile, exposing the trades who built and renovated them and the maintenance crews who kept their boilers and steam lines running.
- New Mexico State Hospital (New Mexico Insane Asylum) — Las Vegas
- New Mexico State Penitentiary — Santa Fe
Power plants and utilities. Power plants' boilers, turbines, and high-pressure steam lines were insulated, lined, and sealed with asbestos products, and every overhaul released dust across the plant.
- Lea County Electric Cooperative — Lovington power plant — Lovington
- San Juan Generating Station (Public Service Company of New Mexico) — Waterflow
Military installations. Military bases ran boiler plants, steam distribution systems, and aircraft and vehicle maintenance shops, and built and renovated for decades with asbestos-containing materials.
- White Sands Missile Range — White Sands
Railroads. Steam locomotives were insulated with asbestos, and railroad shops relined boilers and replaced brake shoes and gaskets on equipment that carried asbestos for decades after diesels arrived.
- Santa Fe Railway (Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe) — Clovis
Mines and ore mills. Mines and ore mills ran powerhouses, boilers, compressors, and steam lines insulated and sealed with asbestos, and their mills and smelters used asbestos refractory.
- International Minerals & Chemical — Loving
Mesothelioma settlement values at New Mexico's most-documented worksites
These worksites appear on the approved-site lists of at least three trusts besides Johns-Manville. Trust counts are minimums: a trust may list a site under a name we haven't yet matched to it. The years are the exposure window the trusts' lists recognize at each site; most lists end at 1982.
Open a worksite to see each trust that lists it, with the mesothelioma values the trust publishes and its current payment percentage. "Trust values together" adds up those trusts' values at their payment percentages: the low figure uses each trust's scheduled value, the high figure each trust's published maximum, which Individual Review can reach. Most mesothelioma claims are paid above the scheduled value. But each trust sets its own eligibility rules — the years, the work, and the length of exposure it requires — so few people qualify for every trust on a list, some trusts publish no fixed schedule, and these figures are not a prediction of any recovery. All trust values and payment percentages.
Four Corners Power Plant (Arizona Public Service)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| J.T. Thorpe (California) | Not published | — | — |
| J.T. Thorpe (Texas) | $100,000 | 23% | $23,000 |
| NARCO | $75,000 – $1,379,580 | 100% | $75,000 – $1,379,580 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Anaconda Company (Anaconda Copper Mining)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| J.T. Thorpe (California) | Not published | — | — |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Chino Mines (Kennecott Copper, later Phelps Dodge)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Lea County Electric Cooperative — Lovington power plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| J.T. Thorpe (California) | Not published | — | — |
| J.T. Thorpe (Texas) | $100,000 | 23% | $23,000 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
San Juan Generating Station (Public Service Company of New Mexico)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| ACandS | $150,000 – $550,000 | 2.89% | $4,335 – $15,895 |
| Armstrong World Industries | $110,000 – $400,000 | 7.8% | $8,580 – $31,200 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Reeves Generating Station (Public Service Company of New Mexico)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
El Paso Natural Gas — Jal plants
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Los Alamos laboratory and townsite (Zia Company)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Person Generating Station (Public Service Company of New Mexico)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Duval Sulphur & Potash
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
International Minerals & Chemical
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
National Potash Co
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Potash Co of America
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
United States Potash
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| J.T. Thorpe (California) | Not published | — | — |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Santa Fe Railway (Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Raytech | Not published | — | — |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Ciniza plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
United Nuclear–Homestake Partners
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Warren Petroleum Co
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
New Mexico State Hospital (New Mexico Insane Asylum)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
International Minerals & Chemical
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
New Mexico State Penitentiary
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Plibrico | $350,000 – $750,000 | 0.94% | $3,290 – $7,050 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
A closer look at major New Mexico worksites
The worksites below are recognized by the most asbestos trusts in New Mexico — five or more, counting Johns-Manville. Each profile draws on the trust signatures present at the site to identify the products workers handled, the trades most heavily exposed, and the asbestos types they likely encountered. Your specific worksite may be documented even if it doesn't appear here — call us.
Four Corners Power Plant (Arizona Public Service) — Fruitland
The Four Corners Power Plant stands on Navajo Nation land at Fruitland, west of Farmington, and burns coal from the mine next door. Arizona Public Service built and operates it; its first units came on line in the 1960s, and its three oldest units were retired in 2013. The trusts list it as Four Corners Steam, Four Corners Powerhouse, and Arizona Public Service, under Fruitland, Farmington, and Shiprock; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Powerhouse work put boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, welders, and maintenance mechanics among heavily insulated boilers, turbines, and steam lines, with construction and outage work driving the heaviest dust. Laborers and operators shared the same air across the units.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 10 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, J.T. Thorpe (California), J.T. Thorpe (Texas), NARCO, Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1960 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. The Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering signatures reflect the plant's boilers, with their pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing on access doors and steam connections, and NARCO refractory lined the boiler furnaces. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Fibreboard pipe and block insulation covered the steam and turbine piping, Eagle-Picher insulating cement finished the fittings, and the two J.T. Thorpe signatures point to insulation contracting crews at the plant. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Anaconda Company (Anaconda Copper Mining) — Grants
After uranium was found near Grants in 1950, the Anaconda Company built a uranium mill in the area in the 1950s. The Grants uranium belt went on to supply much of the country's uranium for decades. The trusts list it as Anaconda Company and Anaconda Copper Mining.
Workers exposed. Milling ore into uranium concentrate took millwrights, pipefitters, boilermakers, insulators, mechanics, and electricians on the plant's boilers, dryers, leach circuits, and steam lines, along with the crews who built the mill.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 6 asbestos trusts — Combustion Engineering, Eagle-Picher, J.T. Thorpe (California), Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1952 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Combustion Engineering boilers carried pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Because the Owens-Illinois trust signature is present, Owens-Illinois Kaylo high-temperature pipe insulation, an amosite (brown asbestos) product, was used at this site during the 1948–1958 manufacturing window, followed by Owens Corning's Kaylo line. Eagle-Picher insulating cement finished the fittings, and the J.T. Thorpe signature points to insulation contracting crews during the mill's construction. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Chino Mines (Kennecott Copper, later Phelps Dodge) — Hurley
The Chino operations milled and smelted copper at Hurley for most of the twentieth century, processing ore from the Santa Rita open pit. Nevada Consolidated Copper ran them until it became part of Kennecott, and Phelps Dodge took over in 1986. The mill, smelter, and powerhouse made Hurley a company town. The trusts list the plant as Chino Mines, Chino Power, Kennecott Copper, Nevada Consolidated Copper, and Phelps Dodge Mining; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Smelting required furnace and converter crews handling hot work around refractory-lined vessels, boilermakers on the powerhouse, pipefitters and insulators on the steam and process systems, and mechanics across the mill and smelter.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 6 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1938 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers on the powerhouse carried pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing on access doors and steam connections. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Fibreboard pipe insulation covered the steam lines, and Eagle-Picher insulating cement finished the fittings across the smelter's hot piping. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Lea County Electric Cooperative — Lovington power plant — Lovington
The Lea County Electric Cooperative, the rural electric cooperative serving the oil country of southeastern New Mexico, generated its own power at Lovington. The trusts list the plant as the cooperative's Lovington power plant and its turbine generator.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, mechanics, electricians, and plant operators, along with the construction and overhaul crews.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 6 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, J.T. Thorpe (California), J.T. Thorpe (Texas), Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1958 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. The Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering signatures reflect the plant's boilers, with their pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the steam and turbine piping, and the two J.T. Thorpe signatures point to insulation contracting crews in the 1970s. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
San Juan Generating Station (Public Service Company of New Mexico) — Waterflow
The San Juan Generating Station at Waterflow, a few miles from Four Corners, was the Public Service Company of New Mexico's coal-fired plant in the San Juan Basin. Its four units were built from the early 1970s into the early 1980s, and the last of them shut down in 2022. The trusts list it under Public Service Company of New Mexico at Waterflow, as San Juan Unit 2, and through Stearns-Roger's construction work at the site.
Workers exposed. Construction crews built the units through the 1970s and into the 1980s, and boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, and maintenance mechanics worked the boilers, turbines, and steam systems through decades of outages.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 6 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, DII Industries (Halliburton), and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1972 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox boilers carried pipe and block insulation and gaskets and packing, and A.P. Green refractory lined the boilers. The ACandS and Armstrong signatures point to insulation contracting crews on Unit 2, applying high-temperature insulation whose grades often carried amosite (brown asbestos). The Halliburton trust lists the site under Stearns-Roger, the contractor at work there, and its signature reflects pumps and compressors. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Reeves Generating Station (Public Service Company of New Mexico) — Albuquerque
The Reeves Generating Station, the Public Service Company of New Mexico's gas-fired plant on Albuquerque's north side, came on line in the late 1950s. The trusts list it as Reeves Generating Station, Reeves Power, and Reeves Station.
Workers exposed. Station work put boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, and maintenance mechanics among insulated boilers, turbines, and steam lines.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1957 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox boilers carried pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Fibreboard pipe and block insulation covered the steam and turbine piping, and Eagle-Picher insulating cement finished the fittings. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
El Paso Natural Gas — Jal plants — Jal
El Paso Natural Gas ran the pipeline system that moved San Juan Basin and Permian Basin gas west, and its plants at Jal, in the state's southeastern corner, gathered and processed Permian gas for it. The stations packed boilers, engines, compressors, and hot insulated piping into remote plants that small crews maintained year-round. The trusts list them as El Paso Natural Gas at Jal and Jal No. 1.
Workers exposed. Station work required operators and mechanics on the compressor engines, pipefitters and insulators on the hot piping and exhaust systems, and boilermakers on the plant boilers, in crews small enough that everyone worked around everything.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, DII Industries (Halliburton), Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1937 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox boilers carried pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Because the Owens-Illinois trust signature is present, Owens-Illinois Kaylo high-temperature pipe insulation, an amosite (brown asbestos) product, was used at this site during the 1948–1958 manufacturing window, followed by Owens Corning's Kaylo line on the hot lines. The Halliburton signature reflects the pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington at the heart of the operation. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Los Alamos laboratory and townsite (Zia Company) — Los Alamos
Los Alamos, built in 1943 for the Manhattan Project, ran for decades as a company town, where the Zia Company held the operations and maintenance contract for the laboratory and townsite and its crews did the steamfitting, insulation, boiler, and building maintenance work across the mesa. The trusts list it as Los Alamos Laboratories, Los Alamos Power, the Atomic Energy Commission, and Zia.
Workers exposed. Laboratory and townsite maintenance required pipefitters and insulators on the steam distribution systems, boiler operators and mechanics on the powerhouse and building plants, and the Zia trades crews who maintained hundreds of buildings across the site.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 5 asbestos trusts — DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1947 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Fibreboard pipe and block insulation covered the steam systems, Eagle-Picher insulating cement finished the fittings, and the Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors across the site's utilities. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories. Department of Energy workers and contractor employees at Los Alamos may also qualify under the federal Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICPA).
New Mexico entries by city
The trusts' lists hold New Mexico entries in 62 communities. Open the list below for the number of entries in each. Call us for any specific worksite — whether or not the city appears here.
Entries on the trusts' lists, city by city
| City | Entries on the trusts' lists |
|---|---|
| Albuquerque | 81 |
| Carlsbad | 29 |
| Fruitland | 20 |
| Gallup | 18 |
| Farmington | 15 |
| Clovis | 12 |
| Grants | 12 |
| Hobbs | 12 |
| Hurley | 12 |
| Roswell | 12 |
| Lovington | 9 |
| Alamogordo | 8 |
| Santa Fe | 8 |
| Las Vegas | 7 |
| Los Alamos | 7 |
| Loving | 7 |
| Las Cruces | 6 |
| Eunice | 5 |
| Jal | 5 |
| Sunland Park | 5 |
| Waterflow | 5 |
| Artesia | 4 |
| Lordsburg | 4 |
| Silver City | 4 |
| Algodones | 3 |
| Bernalillo | 3 |
| Cerrillos | 3 |
| Dawson | 3 |
| Deming | 3 |
| Monument | 3 |
Entries are also listed in Belen, Bloomfield, Brickland, Carrizozo, Clayton, Dulce, Eddy County, Edith, Folsom, Graym, Hebron, Koehler, La Mesa, Los Lunas, Lybrook, Magdalena, Moriarty, Pecos, Plass, Playas, Questa, Raton, Seboyeta, Shiprock, Socorro, Tatum, Tijeras, Tucumcari, Tyrone, Valedon, Waldo and White Sands.
Search the asbestos trusts' New Mexico lists
Type any name the plant went by — the company, a later owner, or the city — to see every entry on the trusts' lists that matches, as the trusts wrote it, with each trust and the years it lists.
365 entries, as the trusts list them.
Worksites named in court opinions
Court decisions in our library name these New Mexico workplaces as places where people were exposed to asbestos.
Four Corners Power Plant
- Pounders v. Enserch E & C, Inc. (2013): Welder, 1969-1974 and 1979-1983
- Pounders v. Enserch E & C, Inc. (2012): Welder, 1969-1974 and 1977-1983
Knecht Automotive
- In re Asbestos Litigation (2020): Automobile mechanic
- In re Asbestos Litigation (2019): Automobile mechanic and shop owner
Every worksite named in New Mexico court decisions, with all their decisions
Asbestos mines
The documents in our library report no New Mexico mine producing asbestos fiber that was sold or shipped.
Our records also name 1 New Mexico asbestos deposit or mine with no sales reported: deposits and prospects the documents describe or report exploring, and mines they report worked without fiber sold. Each page says what the documents report.
1 deposit or mine with no sales reported
- W. S. Beall tremolite depositDeposits and prospects · Guienas Canyon district, 8 miles southeast of the Elk Mountain mining district, west of Las Vegas · W. S. Beall
Don't see your worksite?
Your worksite may be documented even if it doesn't appear on this page. If your loved one worked at a New Mexico facility not listed, call us. Johns-Manville requires no site list at all, and we can often document exposure through the products, contractors, and equipment at a site even when no trust lists it by name.
Smaller worksites, contract jobs, short-tenure employment, and exposures across multiple sites are all part of the case-building process.
Call 833-4-ASBESTOS to confirm coverage for your loved one's specific worksite.
How a New Mexico case may work
Manuel is a 70-year-old retired boilermaker from Farmington. From 1974 to 2008, he worked the San Juan Basin power plants, first on the construction of the San Juan Generating Station's later units and then through more than three decades of outages at both San Juan and the Four Corners Power Plant, tearing into boiler insulation and lagging, replacing gaskets and packing on high-pressure steam connections, and working shoulder to shoulder with the insulators stripping and re-covering pipe during every overhaul. In early 2026, after months of abdominal pain and swelling he'd put down to age, a biopsy confirmed peritoneal mesothelioma of the epithelioid type.
For Manuel's family, the case can include several kinds of claims. His decades of pre-1983 exposure qualify him for the universal Johns-Manville Settlement Trust — one day is enough for a mesothelioma claim, and Manuel has eight years before the cutoff. We also look at the trusts that list Four Corners and San Juan — at least twelve between them, among them Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Owens Corning, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Armstrong, and A.P. Green — and decide with the family and our trial team when to file each claim. Civil claims against still-solvent defendants — gasket, packing, and equipment manufacturers, and the premises interests responsible for the plants — round out the recovery profile. Because peritoneal mesothelioma is treated with surgery and heated chemotherapy (HIPEC) at specialized centers, getting Manuel to the right one matters, and New Mexico workers have an advantage many states lack: the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center in Albuquerque is NCI-designated, so world-class treatment is in-state, and when a case calls for a center farther away, our firm can advance the cost of travel and lodging when the written agreement and applicable law permit it. Manuel's wife, who washed his work clothes through thirty-four years of outages, is eligible for free asbestos health screening as part of our representation. How legal recovery funds mesothelioma treatment access →.
For the full doctrinal treatment of New Mexico's discovery rule, comparative fault framework, premises liability standard, and damages framework, see the New Mexico mesothelioma law guide.
This example is general. Every case depends on the diagnosis, exposure history, dates, defendants, applicable law, and available evidence.
What happens when you call
A staff attorney answers — not a screener. The first call usually runs 20 to 30 minutes. We listen to the work history, identify which New Mexico worksites and trust channels apply to your loved one's exposure, and explain the timeline and case structure for your family's specific situation.
We never pressure anyone to retain us during the first call. If you decide to move forward, we come to you — phone, video, or home visit, whichever works best. No travel to our offices is required at any point in the case.
You do not need to come to the call with product names, exposure dates, or work records. We reconstruct the exposure history using our worksite database, the trust documentation for each manufacturer, employment and union records, and coworker interviews. The conversation starts with what you remember; we handle the documentation work from there.
A spouse, adult child, or other family member can call for the worker. Many of our first calls are from a daughter or wife researching on behalf of a parent or husband. That is standard, and the family member can make the call without the worker on the line.
Call 833-4-ASBESTOS for a free case review.
Why families choose our firm
- $400M+ recovered and 200,000+ verified exposure sites nationally; all 365 New Mexico entries on the asbestos trusts' lists; more than a dozen clients with New Mexico job sites
- Worksite-specific knowledge — we operate from documented trust coverage rather than generic intake scripts, and we speak to the products, trades, and exposures at your loved one's specific New Mexico worksite from the first conversation
- Trust + civil + federal benefits coordinated case by case with the trial team — Johns-Manville plus site-specific trusts plus civil cases plus VA, FECA, and EEOICPA where applicable, coordinated as a single recovery strategy
- Remote case handling — phone, video, or home visit; no travel to our offices required
- Free family asbestos health screening for spouses, children, and others who may have been exposed at home
- No fee unless we recover
Frequently asked questions
Is my New Mexico worksite documented?
Probably yes. The asbestos trusts' approved-site lists hold 365 New Mexico entries in 62 communities — power plants, gas plants and compressor stations, potash mines, copper and uranium mills, refineries, railroad shops, and federal installations among them. You can search every entry on this page. Even if a specific site isn't listed, we routinely build cases through coworker testimony, employment records, union records, and product-handling reconstruction.
What does "trust coverage" mean for my case?
Each asbestos manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy because of asbestos liability had its liability transferred to a settlement trust. When we say a worksite has "trust coverage" from a specific manufacturer, we mean the trust's own list documents that manufacturer's products at the site — which supports a claim against that trust. Trust claims are paper claims, not lawsuits. They typically resolve in 3 to 9 months and do not require depositions or courtroom appearances. Most New Mexico industrial workers qualify for multiple parallel trust filings.
Does my loved one qualify for the Johns-Manville trust?
Probably yes, if your loved one had asbestos exposure before 1983 and developed an asbestos-related disease. Johns-Manville does not require proof that its products were at a specific worksite, and for mesothelioma even one day of exposure can qualify. How Johns-Manville eligibility works.
Do I need to know which asbestos products my loved one handled?
No. Most workers and most families do not know the specific product names, and that is not a barrier to filing. We reconstruct product handling using the trusts' site lists, the trust documentation for each manufacturer present at the site, coworker testimony, employment and union records, and industry-specific knowledge of which products were standard at each facility type. The conversation starts with what you remember.
What if my loved one worked at multiple New Mexico sites?
That is common and helpful. Multi-site careers — a boilermaker who worked outages at both Four Corners and San Juan, an El Paso Natural Gas hand who moved among compressor stations, or a potash worker who moved among the Carlsbad operators — broaden the trust coverage and strengthen the civil case. We reconstruct the full career arc and file across every documented site.
What if my loved one's plant has closed or been demolished?
The closure or demolition of a worksite does not affect the case, and in New Mexico that matters: San Juan has retired, Four Corners is winding down, and many of the gas plants and potash operations have changed hands or closed. Trust documentation and civil claims rely on the manufacturer presence at the site during the era of exposure, not on whether the facility is still operating.
What if my loved one worked at Los Alamos, Sandia, Kirtland, or White Sands?
Federal installations carry additional channels alongside the trust and civil claims. Department of Energy contractor employees at Los Alamos and Sandia — including the Zia Company workforce — may qualify under Part E of the federal Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program (EEOICPA), a dedicated compensation program for nuclear-weapons-complex workers, which we handle. Federal civilian employees at Kirtland Air Force Base and White Sands Missile Range are covered by FECA (the Federal Employees' Compensation Act), and military veterans may be eligible for VA service-connected disability. Federal benefits can be pursued alongside trust claims and civil claims; some must be coordinated, because a few programs carry offsets or repayment rules. We coordinate the full set.
Can we file a claim if my loved one already passed away?
Yes. New Mexico wrongful death claims for asbestos-caused mesothelioma, lung cancer, and asbestosis are filed routinely. The wrongful death filing deadline in New Mexico is three years from the date of death. Trust claims can also be filed by the estate or by surviving family members on behalf of the deceased worker. Call us promptly, because the deadlines run.
Talk with a New Mexico asbestos lawyer
Whether your family is dealing with a new diagnosis, a very sick loved one, or a death from mesothelioma, we are ready to help. Your loved one's worksite may already be on the trusts' lists — or we can help document it if it isn't.
You do not need to know the product names. You do not need to have all the records. You do not need to travel to our office. A spouse or adult child can call for the family.
Related resources
This page is provided for general informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. Every asbestos case turns on its own facts, exposure history, diagnosis, deadlines, available evidence, and applicable law. Reviewing this page does not create an attorney-client relationship. For advice about your specific situation, call 833-4-ASBESTOS for a free case review.