Most of Colorado's asbestos exposure happened within sight of the Front Range. A single line of cities at the foot of the mountains held nearly all of the state's heavy industry: a steel mill at one end, power stations, a rubber plant, and a refinery in the middle, beet-sugar factories and a film plant at the other. Beyond it, in the high country and on the Western Slope, stood mines, mills, and coal-fired generating stations. Every one of these places burned fuel to make steam or heat, and asbestos was what held that heat in. Taken from south to north, then west over the Divide, the trusts' Colorado entries fall into five groups:
- Pueblo and Colorado Springs — CF&I's Minnequa steel works and the Colorado State Hospital in Pueblo, and the Air Force Academy and Fort Carson to the north;
- Denver and Commerce City — the Gates Rubber plant, Public Service Company of Colorado's Cherokee and Zuni power stations, and the Continental Oil refinery;
- Golden and Boulder — the Coors brewery, the Rocky Flats weapons plant, and the Valmont power station;
- the northern plains — Eastman Kodak's plant at Windsor and the Great Western Sugar factories from Greeley to Fort Morgan and Ovid; and
- the mountains and the Western Slope — the Climax molybdenum mine, American Gilsonite's refinery near Fruita, and the Hayden power station.
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 Colorado, those lists hold more than 1,000 entries across 139 communities, from 28 asbestos trusts. One plant can appear many times, under different names or on different trusts' lists. Dozens of our clients worked at Colorado 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.
Colorado filing deadlines and trust eligibility, in brief
Colorado gives a diagnosed worker two years to file a personal-injury claim. Exactly when the clock starts varies, so to be safe, count from the date of diagnosis. A separate deadline applies once a worker has passed away. If your loved one is alive and diagnosed, calling early keeps more options open.
Colorado 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 routine in our practice. Colorado's Wrongful Death Act allows recovery by surviving spouses and heirs.
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 Colorado
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-seven other trusts list Colorado worksites. The number of Colorado entries on each trust's list:
- Johns-Manville: no list of its own; every site on the other trusts' lists qualifies
- Babcock & Wilcox: 357 entries (industrial and utility boilers)
- W.R. Grace: 124 entries (Monokote spray fireproofing and Zonolite)
- Owens Corning: 120 entries (Kaylo and high-temperature pipe and block insulation)
- A.P. Green: 117 entries (refractory brick, castables and cements)
- Fibreboard: 116 entries (Pabco pipe and block insulation)
- DII Industries (Halliburton): 69 entries (pumps, compressors and oilfield equipment)
- Combustion Engineering: 42 entries (boilers and refractory)
- Eagle-Picher: 41 entries (insulating cements and pipe covering)
- Kaiser Aluminum: 23 entries (refractory and insulating products)
- U.S. Gypsum: 19 entries (joint compound, plaster and acoustical products)
- Flintkote: 9 entries (roofing, flooring and building products)
- Plibrico: 8 entries (refractory plastics and castables)
- ACandS: 7 entries (insulation contracting)
- ABB Lummus: 6 entries (refinery and petrochemical engineering)
- Owens-Illinois: 6 entries (Kaylo pipe and block insulation)
- Armstrong World Industries: 5 entries (insulation contracting and floor products)
- NARCO: 5 entries (refractory gun mixes and castables)
- Pittsburgh Corning: 4 entries (Unibestos pipe insulation)
- Western Asbestos: 4 entries (insulation contracting and distribution)
- DII Industries (Harbison-Walker): 3 entries (refractory brick and castables)
- Fuller-Austin: 3 entries (insulation contracting)
- ASARCO: 1 entry (asbestos mining and smelting)
- Burns & Roe: 1 entry (power-plant engineering and construction)
- GAF: 1 entry (roofing and building products)
- J.T. Thorpe (California): 1 entry (insulation and refractory contracting)
- J.T. Thorpe (Texas): 1 entry (insulation and refractory contracting)
- Turner & Newall: 1 entry (Limpet sprayed asbestos and asbestos textiles)
Trust coverage at this depth means most Colorado 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.
Colorado 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.
DenverDenver's entries center on the Gates Rubber plant on South Broadway and Public Service Company of Colorado's Cherokee, Arapahoe, and Zuni power stations, with the University of Colorado's medical center nearby.
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.
- Public Service Co. of Colorado (Denver listings)
- Public Service Co. of Colorado — Arapahoe Station
- Public Service Co. of Colorado — Cherokee Station
- Public Service Co. of Colorado — Zuni Station
Tire and synthetic-rubber plants. Synthetic-rubber and tire plants ran boilers, steam lines, and steam-heated presses and curing equipment insulated and sealed with asbestos.
- Gates Rubber Company
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.
- University of Colorado Medical Center (Colorado General Hospital)
PuebloPueblo was Colorado's steel town: CF&I's Minnequa works on the south side, Public Service's Comanche power station, and the Colorado State Hospital.
Steel, metals, and metalworking. Steel mills, foundries, tool works, and aluminum plants used asbestos wherever metal was melted, poured, or heat-treated: refractory brick and cement, insulation on furnaces and ladles, and asbestos protective clothing.
- CF&I Steel (Colorado Fuel & Iron) Minnequa works
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.
- Colorado State Hospital
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.
- Public Service Co. of Colorado — Comanche Station
BoulderBoulder pairs the University of Colorado with Public Service's Valmont power station just east of town.
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.
- University of Colorado
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.
- Public Service Co. of Colorado — Valmont Station
Commerce CityCommerce City, on Denver's northern edge, holds the former Continental Oil refinery, today Suncor's and Colorado's only oil refinery, and the Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal.
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.
- Continental Oil (Conoco) refinery
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.
- Rocky Mountain Arsenal
GoldenGolden is home to the Coors brewery, founded in 1873, and Coors Porcelain, the family's ceramics company, today CoorsTek.
Paper mills and manufacturing plants. Paper mills, glass plants, lumber mills, and factories ran their own boilers and steam systems, insulated with asbestos pipe covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere.
- Coors Porcelain Company
Food plants, breweries, and sugar mills. Sugar mills, breweries, corn and flour mills, and packing houses ran on steam: boilers, cookers, evaporators, and dryers, with miles of insulated pipe, all built with asbestos insulation, gaskets, and packing.
- Adolph Coors brewery
Other Colorado communitiesOne worksite each in 11 more communities.
Food plants, breweries, and sugar mills. Sugar mills, breweries, corn and flour mills, and packing houses ran on steam: boilers, cookers, evaporators, and dryers, with miles of insulated pipe, all built with asbestos insulation, gaskets, and packing.
- Great Western Sugar Co — Fort Morgan
- Great Western Sugar Co — Greeley
- Great Western Sugar Co — Ovid
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.
- Fort Carson — Fort Carson
- Rocky Flats Plant — Rocky Flats
- U.S. Air Force Academy — Colorado Springs
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.
- American Gilsonite refinery — Gilsonite
Paper mills and manufacturing plants. Paper mills, glass plants, lumber mills, and factories ran their own boilers and steam systems, insulated with asbestos pipe covering and sealed with asbestos gaskets. A paper mill's recovery boilers were among the most asbestos-intensive equipment anywhere.
- Eastman Kodak Colorado Division — Windsor
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.
- Colorado State University — Fort Collins
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.
- Colorado-Ute Electric — Hayden Station — Hayden
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.
- Climax molybdenum mine — Climax
Mesothelioma settlement values at Colorado's most-documented worksites
These worksites appear on the approved-site lists of at least four 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.
CF&I Steel (Colorado Fuel & Iron) Minnequa works
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Kaiser Aluminum | Not published | — | — |
| NARCO | $75,000 – $1,379,580 | 100% | $75,000 – $1,379,580 |
| Plibrico | $350,000 – $750,000 | 0.94% | $3,290 – $7,050 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Eastman Kodak Colorado Division
| 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 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Flintkote | $184,000 – $450,000 | 15% | $27,600 – $67,500 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Gates Rubber Company
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Public Service Co. of Colorado — Cherokee Station
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Plibrico | $350,000 – $750,000 | 0.94% | $3,290 – $7,050 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Adolph Coors brewery
| 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 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Plibrico | $350,000 – $750,000 | 0.94% | $3,290 – $7,050 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Rocky Flats Plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABB Lummus | $1,000 – $400,000 | 9.5% | $95 – $38,000 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Burns & Roe | Not published | — | — |
| 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 |
| Western Asbestos | $117,087 – $524,025 | 51.1% | $59,831.46 – $267,776.78 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Public Service Co. of Colorado — Valmont Station
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Continental Oil (Conoco) refinery
| 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 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Kaiser Aluminum | Not published | — | — |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Rocky Mountain Arsenal
| 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 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Public Service Co. of Colorado (Denver listings)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ABB Lummus | $1,000 – $400,000 | 9.5% | $95 – $38,000 |
| 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 (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 |
Public Service Co. of Colorado — Arapahoe Station
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACandS | $150,000 – $550,000 | 2.89% | $4,335 – $15,895 |
| Armstrong World Industries | $110,000 – $400,000 | 7.8% | $8,580 – $31,200 |
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Public Service Co. of Colorado — Zuni Station
| 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 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Western Asbestos | $117,087 – $524,025 | 51.1% | $59,831.46 – $267,776.78 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
American Gilsonite refinery
| 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 |
| Kaiser Aluminum | Not published | — | — |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Colorado State Hospital
| 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 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Public Service Co. of Colorado — Comanche Station
| 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 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Fuller-Austin | $58,500 | 45% | $26,325 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
University of Colorado
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| U.S. Gypsum | $155,000 – $450,000 | 10% | $15,500 – $45,000 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Climax molybdenum mine
| 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 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
U.S. Air Force Academy
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
University of Colorado Medical Center (Colorado General Hospital)
| 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 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Colorado State University
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| W.R. Grace | $180,000 – $450,000 | 30.1% | $54,180 – $135,450 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Great Western Sugar 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 |
| 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 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Coors Porcelain Company
| 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 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Colorado-Ute Electric — Hayden Station
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| 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 |
Great Western Sugar Co
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
A closer look at major Colorado worksites
The worksites below are recognized by the most asbestos trusts in Colorado — seven 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.
CF&I Steel (Colorado Fuel & Iron) Minnequa works — Pueblo
The Minnequa works on Pueblo's south side, begun in 1881, made Pueblo Colorado's steel town. The Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, later CF&I Steel Corporation, ran it for most of the twentieth century as an integrated mill: coke ovens, blast furnaces, steelmaking furnaces, and rolling mills for rail, pipe, and wire. The trusts list it under CF&I Steel, Colorado Fuel & Iron, the Minnequa works, and the neighborhoods of Minnequa and Bessemer, where the mill stands; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Integrated steel production required refractory workers (blast furnaces, steelmaking furnaces, coke ovens), boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, millwrights, electricians, and rolling-mill operators.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 10 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Kaiser Aluminum, NARCO, Plibrico, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1900 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Steelmaking is among the most refractory-intensive work in American industry: A.P. Green brick and cement, NARCO gun mixes and castables, Plibrico refractory plastics, and Kaiser refractory lined the blast furnaces, steelmaking furnaces, soaking pits, and reheat furnaces, and were torn out and replaced on every reline. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers raised steam for the mill, with pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing on access doors and steam connections. Fibreboard pipe insulation, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Eagle-Picher insulating cement covered the steam and process piping, and the Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Eastman Kodak Colorado Division — Windsor
Eastman Kodak built its Colorado Division plant outside Windsor, in northern Colorado, around 1970 to make photographic film and paper. The trusts list it under Eastman Kodak, Kodak, the Kodak Colorado Division, and the film and paper manufacturing plant on Eastman Park Drive, including the construction of individual buildings; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Photographic film and chemical manufacturing required pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, refractory workers, mechanics, and process operators, along with the construction trades who built the plant.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 10 asbestos trusts — ACandS, A.P. Green, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, DII Industries (Halliburton), Fibreboard, Flintkote, Owens Corning, W.R. Grace, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1969 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. The trusts' lists catch this plant while it was being built, so the construction trades handled much of what they record. W.R. Grace Monokote spray fireproofing went onto the structural steel of the new buildings, and ACandS and Armstrong insulation crews worked the buildings named on their lists. Babcock & Wilcox boilers raised the plant's steam, with A.P. Green refractory and gaskets and packing, and Owens Corning and Fibreboard pipe and block insulation, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the steam and process piping. Flintkote documentation points to roofing and flooring products, and the Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Gates Rubber Company — Denver
The Gates Rubber Company was founded in Denver in 1911 and grew into one of the world's largest makers of V-belts and hoses, with its main plant on South Broadway. The complex ran its own powerhouse and steam system for the presses and curing equipment. The trusts list it under Gates Rubber, Gates Rubber Company, and the Gates Rubber Plant, and one trust under "Gates Rubber Co. (Armstrong Rubber)"; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Operations of this scale required boilermakers, pipefitters, millwrights, mechanics, insulators, refractory workers in the powerhouse, electricians, and production workers in the boiler room and steam systems areas.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 9 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1919 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers in the powerhouse carried pipe and block insulation, A.P. Green refractory, and gaskets and packing on access doors and steam connections. 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; Fibreboard pipe insulation and Eagle-Picher insulating cement and magnesia covered more of the steam lines that fed the presses and curing equipment. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Public Service Co. of Colorado — Cherokee Station — Denver
Cherokee Station, just north of downtown Denver, is a Public Service Company of Colorado generating station that burned coal for most of its life, with generating units added in the 1950s and 1960s. Public Service is now part of Xcel Energy. The trusts list it under Cherokee Station, the Cherokee Powerhouse, the Cherokee Steam Electric Station, and Public Service Company of Colorado, including work on its fourth turbine; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Coal-fired generating station operations required boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers on the boiler furnace linings, mechanics, electricians, and operators, along with the construction and overhaul crews.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 9 asbestos trusts — ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Pittsburgh Corning, Plibrico, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1950 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. The Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering signatures reflect the station's boilers, with their pipe and block insulation, gaskets and packing, and Plibrico refractory in the furnaces. Pittsburgh Corning's amosite-rich Unibestos and Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the hottest steam and turbine piping, with Fibreboard pipe and block insulation on more of the plant. The ACandS and Armstrong signatures point to insulation contracting crews at the station, including turbine work. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Adolph Coors brewery — Golden
Adolph Coors founded his brewery on Clear Creek in Golden in 1873, and it grew into one of the largest single brewery sites in the world. The company is now part of Molson Coors. The trusts list it under Adolph Coors Company, the Coors Brewery, and its powerhouse and general storeroom; it is one facility. Coors Porcelain, the family's ceramics company in Golden, is listed separately.
Workers exposed. Brewing operations of this scale required boilermakers and pipefitters in the powerhouse and brewing process areas, insulators, mechanics, millwrights, refractory workers, and electricians.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 9 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning, Plibrico, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1927 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers in the powerhouse raised the steam for brewing, with Plibrico refractory and gaskets and packing on access doors and steam connections. 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; Pittsburgh Corning's amosite-rich Unibestos covered high-temperature lines, and Fibreboard pipe and block insulation and Eagle-Picher insulating cement covered the steam distribution through the brewery. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Rocky Flats Plant — Rocky Flats
The Rocky Flats Plant, on the plain between Boulder and Golden, was the Atomic Energy Commission's plant for making plutonium components of nuclear weapons. Dow Chemical ran it from its opening in 1952 until 1975, and Rockwell International after that; production stopped in 1989, and the cleaned-up site is now a national wildlife refuge. The trusts list it under Rocky Flats, the Rocky Flats power plant, Dow Chemical, the Atomic Energy Commission, and its successor ERDA; it is one facility. Rocky Flats is a covered facility under the federal Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA).
Workers exposed. Pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers in the plant's steam plant, electricians, maintenance mechanics, and the construction trades who built and expanded the production buildings.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 8 asbestos trusts — ABB Lummus, Babcock & Wilcox, Burns & Roe, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Western Asbestos, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1962 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox boilers in the plant's power plant raised steam for heating and process use across the site, with pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning's Kaylo line and Fibreboard pipe insulation, their high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Eagle-Picher insulating cement covered the steam distribution, and Western Asbestos supplied and installed insulation. ABB Lummus and Burns & Roe did engineering and construction work at the plant. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Public Service Co. of Colorado — Valmont Station — Boulder
Valmont Station, just east of Boulder, is one of Public Service Company of Colorado's long-running generating stations, now part of Xcel Energy. The trusts list it under Valmont Station, the Valmont Power Plant, the Valmont Powerhouse, and Public Service Company of Colorado at Valmont; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers, millwrights, mechanics, electricians, and power plant operators, along with the construction and overhaul crews.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 7 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1937 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. The Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering signatures reflect the station's boilers, with their pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning and Fibreboard pipe and block insulation, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Eagle-Picher insulating cement covered the steam and turbine piping; the Halliburton signature reflects pumps on the feedwater and circulating-water systems. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Continental Oil (Conoco) refinery — Commerce City
The Continental Oil Company's refinery at Commerce City, on Denver's northern edge, refined crude for the Front Range for decades. Suncor Energy bought it from ConocoPhillips in 2003, and it is now Colorado's only oil refinery. The trusts list it under Continental Oil Company, Conoco, and the Conoco refinery, sometimes with a Denver address; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Refinery operations required pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, refractory workers on process heaters and fluid catalytic crackers, mechanics, electricians, and instrument technicians.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 7 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, DII Industries (Halliburton), Fibreboard, Kaiser Aluminum, Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1930 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green and Kaiser refractory lined the process heaters and cat cracker. Babcock & Wilcox boilers powered the refinery's steam systems, with gaskets and packing on every steam connection and access door, and Owens Corning's Kaylo line and Fibreboard pipe and block insulation, their high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the process piping and heat exchangers. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories, and crocidolite (blue asbestos) appeared in the gaskets and packing of the refinery's acid service.
Colorado entries by city
The trusts' lists hold Colorado entries in 139 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 |
|---|---|
| Denver | 370 |
| Pueblo | 101 |
| Colorado Springs | 93 |
| Golden | 32 |
| Boulder | 24 |
| Commerce City | 18 |
| Fort Collins | 16 |
| Grand Junction | 16 |
| Greeley | 16 |
| Cañon City | 15 |
| Windsor | 15 |
| Englewood | 14 |
| Lakewood | 11 |
| Longmont | 11 |
| Aurora | 10 |
| Craig | 10 |
| Fruita | 10 |
| Littleton | 10 |
| Rocky Ford | 10 |
| Fort Morgan | 9 |
| Wheat Ridge | 9 |
| La Junta | 8 |
| Leadville | 8 |
| Aspen | 7 |
| Brighton | 7 |
| Brush | 7 |
| Hayden | 7 |
| Durango | 6 |
| Rocky Flats | 6 |
| Trinidad | 6 |
| Valmont | 6 |
| Gilsonite | 5 |
| Grand Valley | 5 |
| Johnstown | 5 |
| Ladora | 5 |
| Loveland | 5 |
| Montrose | 5 |
| Ovid | 5 |
| Platteville | 5 |
| Rangely | 5 |
| Rifle | 5 |
| Alamosa | 4 |
| Broomfield | 4 |
| Climax | 4 |
| Fort Carson | 4 |
| Lamar | 4 |
| Sterling | 4 |
| Victor | 4 |
| Avondale | 3 |
| Burnham | 3 |
| Del Norte | 3 |
| Fountain | 3 |
| Niwot | 3 |
| Palisade | 3 |
The trusts' lists also name 85 other Colorado communities.
Search the asbestos trusts' Colorado 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.
More than 1,000 entries, as the trusts list them.
Court decisions: 9 asbestos cases from Colorado courts
Worksites named in court opinions
Court decisions in our library name these Colorado workplaces as places where people were exposed to asbestos.
Hoerner Waldorf box plant
- Bootenhoff v. Hormel Foods Corporation (2014): Wife of worker who laundered his work clothes, 1972-1976
- Bootenhoff v. Hormel Foods Corporation (2014): Wife laundering husband's work clothes (husband a plant supervisor), 1972-1976
U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Federal Center
- Mehnert v. Agilent Technologies, Inc. (2020): Lab technician (argon extraction laboratory), 1964-1988
- Mehnert v. Agilent Technologies, Inc. (2018): Worked on Mass Spectrometers; performed experiments with asbestos materials and weekly cleaning of the Mass Spectrometer, 1959-1995
Henderson Mine
- In re Asbestos Litigation (2019): Mine electrician, 1977-1983
U.S. Air Force Academy
- Fibreboard Corp. v. Fenton (1993): Plumber, 1957-1958
Every worksite named in Colorado court decisions, with all their decisions
Plants that made asbestos products
Companies' sworn answers in asbestos lawsuits, the asbestos industry's trade journal and company records in our library name these Colorado plants as places where asbestos products were made. Each plant's page says who ran it and when, what was made there, and which document says so. People who worked in these plants, their families, and people who lived nearby may have been exposed.
Asbestos mines
The documents in our library report no Colorado mine producing asbestos fiber that was sold or shipped.
Our records also name 1 Colorado 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
- Anthophyllite occurrenceDeposits and prospects · Fremont County
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 Colorado 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.
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How a Colorado case may work
Gary is a 73-year-old retired maintenance and boiler worker from Denver. From 1971 through 2003 — 32 years — he worked at the Gates Rubber Company plant along South Broadway, primarily in the maintenance and boiler-room crews supporting the rubber manufacturing complex. His daily work brought him into contact with insulation on high-pressure steam lines, gaskets and packing on pumps and process equipment, refractory in the powerhouse, and the broad range of asbestos-containing products characteristic of major rubber manufacturing. He had no significant health complaints until late 2025, when he developed persistent abdominal pain, unexplained weight loss, and fluid accumulation in the abdomen. A peritoneal biopsy in February 2026 confirmed peritoneal mesothelioma of the sarcomatoid mesothelioma variety — an aggressive presentation affecting the peritoneal lining of the abdomen.
After Gary retained our firm, we matched his work history against the trusts that list Gates Rubber in Denver — at least eight site-specific trusts (A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, and Owens-Illinois). Trust filings went out quickly to each qualifying trust. In addition, because Gary's exposure history covers the heavy pre-1983 asbestos decades, he qualifies for the Johns-Manville Settlement Trust — that is a separate filing on top of the site-specific trusts. His family also accepted our free asbestos health screening offer, which covers his wife and adult children for the take-home exposure that came into the household on Gary's work clothes across 32 years. 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. Recoveries from cases like Gary's routinely fund what insurance does not cover — travel to academic cancer centers, lodging during extended treatment, out-of-pocket medication costs, and home help. The nearest NCI-designated cancer center for a Denver-area worker is the University of Colorado Cancer Center in Aurora, where peritoneal mesothelioma specialists offer HIPEC (heated intraperitoneal chemotherapy) and the latest combination immunotherapy protocols. When the written agreement and applicable law permit it, our firm can also advance the cost of travel and lodging when getting to the right treatment center is what matters most. How legal recovery funds mesothelioma treatment access →.
For the full doctrinal treatment of Colorado's discovery rule, comparative fault framework, premises liability standard, and damages framework, see the Colorado 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 Colorado 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.
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Why families choose our firm
- $400M+ recovered and 200,000+ verified exposure sites nationally; all of the more than 1,000 Colorado entries on the asbestos trusts' lists; dozens of clients with Colorado job sites.
- Worksite-specific knowledge. We operate from documented trust coverage rather than from generic intake scripts.
- Trust, civil, and federal benefits coordinated case by case with the trial team. For Rocky Flats contractor employees, EEOICPA Part E is offset by lawsuit and trust recoveries for the same exposure, so its timing is planned with the trial team. FECA must be repaid from a third-party recovery, VA and FECA for the same disease generally require an election, and a civil or trust recovery doesn't reduce VA disability.
- Remote case handling. Phone, video, home visit. No travel to our office required.
- Free family asbestos health screening. Every client's family is covered.
- No fee unless we recover compensation for your family.
Frequently asked questions
Is my Colorado worksite documented?
Probably yes. The asbestos trusts' approved-site lists hold more than 1,000 Colorado entries in 139 communities — the steel mill at Pueblo, Front Range power stations, the Commerce City refinery, the Gates Rubber and Coors plants, Rocky Flats, the sugar factories of the northern plains, mines and mills in the high country, military installations, hospitals, universities, and a wide range of smaller industrial and commercial operations. You can search every entry on this page. Even if a specific facility isn't listed, we can often document exposure there through the products and contractors involved. Call us with the worksite name and we can confirm coverage during the first conversation.
What does "trust coverage" mean for my case?
Major asbestos manufacturers — Johns-Manville, Babcock & Wilcox, Owens Corning, A.P. Green, W.R. Grace, and many others — filed for bankruptcy and were required by their bankruptcy plans to fund settlement trusts that pay claims to workers exposed to their products. Each trust has its own eligibility criteria, but for most major trusts, documented exposure to that company's products at your worksite supports a claim. The trusts' published site lists show which trusts have recognized their products at which Colorado worksites, which lets us identify your loved one's qualifying trust filings on the first call.
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 families do not. We reconstruct the product-handling history using the trusts' site lists, the trust documentation for each manufacturer, employment and union records, coworker interviews, and the operational profile of the facility itself. The conversation starts with what you remember about where your loved one worked and what they did; we handle the product identification from there.
What if my loved one worked at multiple Colorado sites?
Cumulative exposure across multiple worksites strengthens a case rather than complicating it. A worker who spent ten years at Gates Rubber, five years at the Coors brewery, and ten years at a smaller industrial contractor in the Denver area carries trust documentation from each site plus the Johns-Manville coverage. We build the full career-spanning exposure profile.
What if my loved one's worksite has closed or been demolished?
This is common. Gates Rubber's South Broadway plant, the Rocky Flats Plant, and the Rocky Mountain Arsenal have all closed. The trust documentation does not depend on the site being open today — it depends on what asbestos products were at the site during the operational years when your loved one worked there. Closed and demolished worksites are fully documentable.
Does the Rocky Flats Plant qualify for special federal compensation?
Yes. The Rocky Flats Plant is a covered DOE facility under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act (EEOICPA). Part E of the program compensates employees of the plant's contractors for illnesses caused by toxic substances there, including asbestos, beryllium, and radiation-related disease. EEOICPA compensation is offset by lawsuit and trust recoveries for the same exposure and reduced by state workers' compensation, so we plan the order of filings with the trial team.
Can we file a claim if my loved one already passed away?
Yes. Colorado's Wrongful Death Act allows recovery by surviving spouses and heirs for asbestos-related deaths. The deadline is generally two years from the date of death, which is why time matters — call us as soon as you can. Trust filings are also available after death, and many of our Colorado cases are filed on behalf of families whose loved one passed before they were able to file during their lifetime.
Talk with a Colorado 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.