For at least one hundred years, manufacturers in this country created all manner of products that were contaminated with asbestos, from industrial insulation products, to residential floor tiles to personal hair dryers. Although most people exposed to these asbestos containing products encountered them in the workplace, many may have been affected by asbestos products at home. If you worked for any of the companies listed here, or used products manufactured by them, you may have come into contact with asbestos.
The use of asbestos was widespread in America; now the injuries caused by asbestos are equally so. What makes the asbestos health crisis particularly tragic, of course, is how avoidable it all was. Scientists and asbestos companies have long known the health risks associated with asbestos products. Still, many asbestos companies took no heed of the risks and continued to make and market their dangerous products.
The following list identifies just a portion of the companies that made or sold asbestos products, or products that required the use of asbestos for their operation:
A A.B.B. Lummus Global Inc. AC&S A.O. Smith A.P. Green Industries, Inc. A.T. Callas Co. A.W. Chesterton Company Abex Corporation Aerojet General AGCO Corp. Airco, Inc. Allied-Signal, Inc. Allis Chalmers Amatex Corporation Amchem Products, Inc. American BrakeBlok American Optical American Standard Anchor Packing Company Armstrong Contracting & Supply (“AC&S”) Armstrong World Industries, Inc. Arvinmeritor, Inc. ASARCO, Inc. Asbestos Corporation, Ltd. (“ACL”) Asten-Hill Atlas Turner / Atlas Asbestos CompanyAurora PumpB Babcock & Wilcox Baldwin Ehret Hill Bell Asbestos Mines, Ltd. Bendix Benjamin Foster Company Bestwall Gypsum | Georgia Pacific Boeing Boise Cascade Corp. Babcock & Wilcox Bird & Son Bondex Borg-Warner Corporation Bridgestone Firestone Buffalo Pumps, Inc. Burns International Services Corp. C D |
E Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. Eaton Corp. Ehret Magnesia E.J. Bartells Co.F Federal Mogul CorporationFibreboard Corporation Flexitallic Gasket Company Flintkote Ford Motor Company Forty-Eight Insulations Foseco Foster Wheeler G H I J K L M |
N National Gypsum Co. Nicolet (Keasby-Mattison) North American Refractories Northrup GrummanO Owens-Corning Fibreglas Corporation Owens-Illinois, Inc. P Q R S T U W |