Much of Indiana's heavy industry was packed onto one short run of Lake Michigan shoreline, where steel mills, refineries, and chemical plants stood nearly shoulder to shoulder from Whiting to Burns Harbor. Downstate the work spread out — engines and auto parts, aluminum, medicines, and the coal-burning power stations along the Wabash and Ohio rivers — but it leaned on the same furnaces, boilers, and steam lines, and on the same asbestos insulation, refractory, and gaskets to keep them running. Grouped by region, these are the places the trusts' lists come back to most often:
- the Calumet steel mills — U.S. Steel's Gary Works, on more trusts' lists than any other Indiana site, Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube on the Indiana Harbor canal at East Chicago, and Bethlehem Steel at Burns Harbor;
- the Whiting and East Chicago refineries — Standard Oil's Whiting refinery (later Amoco's), Sinclair, and Cities Service;
- Indianapolis and central Indiana — General Motors' Allison Division, Eli Lilly, and Cummins Engine at Columbus;
- the Wabash valley — Alcoa's Lafayette works, Eli Lilly's Tippecanoe Laboratories, and Public Service Indiana's Wabash River station near Terre Haute; and
- the Ohio River — Alcoa's Warrick works near Newburgh, the Clifty Creek power station at Madison, and Colgate-Palmolive at Jeffersonville.
Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Kokomo added truck, brake, and transmission plants of their own.
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 Indiana, those lists hold more than 3,000 entries across 301 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 Indiana 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.
Indiana filing deadlines and trust eligibility, in brief
Indiana 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. If an earlier X-ray, CT scan or screening showed asbestos-related scarring, an Indiana court may count the two 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.
Indiana 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 cases are routine for our firm.
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 a worker's clothing, hair, or vehicle. 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 Indiana
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 Indiana worksites. The number of Indiana entries on each trust's list:
- Johns-Manville: no list of its own; every site on the other trusts' lists qualifies
- Babcock & Wilcox: 1,001 entries (industrial and utility boilers)
- Owens Corning: 663 entries (Kaylo and high-temperature pipe and block insulation)
- A.P. Green: 311 entries (refractory brick, castables and cements)
- Plibrico: 259 entries (refractory plastics and castables)
- DII Industries (Halliburton): 191 entries (pumps, compressors and oilfield equipment)
- Fibreboard: 188 entries (Pabco pipe and block insulation)
- Eagle-Picher: 135 entries (insulating cements and pipe covering)
- Combustion Engineering: 121 entries (boilers and refractory)
- Owens-Illinois: 91 entries (Kaylo pipe and block insulation)
- Armstrong World Industries: 68 entries (insulation contracting and floor products)
- A-Best: 55 entries (asbestos safety clothing)
- ACandS: 51 entries (insulation contracting)
- Flintkote: 50 entries (roofing, flooring and building products)
- W.R. Grace: 49 entries (Monokote spray fireproofing and Zonolite)
- Kaiser Aluminum: 37 entries (refractory and insulating products)
- GAF: 30 entries (roofing and building products)
- DII Industries (Harbison-Walker): 29 entries (refractory brick and castables)
- NARCO: 23 entries (refractory gun mixes and castables)
- Pittsburgh Corning: 20 entries (Unibestos pipe insulation)
- ASARCO: 15 entries (asbestos mining and smelting)
- U.S. Gypsum: 13 entries (joint compound, plaster and acoustical products)
- ABB Lummus: 9 entries (refinery and petrochemical engineering)
- Turner & Newall: 6 entries (Limpet sprayed asbestos and asbestos textiles)
- Raytech: 5 entries (friction products)
- Burns & Roe: 3 entries (power-plant engineering and construction)
- J.T. Thorpe (California): 1 entry (insulation and refractory contracting)
- J.T. Thorpe (Texas): 1 entry (insulation and refractory contracting)
Trust coverage at this depth means most Indiana 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.
Indiana 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.
East ChicagoEast Chicago grew around the Indiana Harbor Ship Canal, with the Inland Steel and Youngstown Sheet & Tube mills along its banks and the Sinclair, Cities Service, and Socony-Vacuum refineries nearby.
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.
- Cities Service refinery
- Sinclair refinery (later ARCO)
- Socony-Vacuum (Mobil) refinery
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.
- Inland Steel Indiana Harbor Works
- Youngstown Sheet & Tube Indiana Harbor Works (later J&L and LTV Steel)
Chemical plants. Chemical plants combined high heat with corrosive service: furnaces and reactors lined with asbestos refractory, steam lines wrapped in asbestos insulation, and acid-resistant asbestos gaskets and packing at every flange.
- Union Carbide Linde plant
IndianapolisIndianapolis mixed aircraft engines, medicine, and power: General Motors' Allison Division, Eli Lilly, and Indianapolis Power & Light's generating stations.
Chemical plants. Chemical plants combined high heat with corrosive service: furnaces and reactors lined with asbestos refractory, steam lines wrapped in asbestos insulation, and acid-resistant asbestos gaskets and packing at every flange.
- Eli Lilly
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.
- National Starch & Chemical
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.
- Indianapolis Power & Light
Aerospace and aviation. Aircraft and spacecraft used asbestos in brakes, gaskets, heat shields, and wiring insulation, and their maintenance and test facilities used it in buildings and equipment.
- General Motors Allison Division
Fort WayneFort Wayne built trucks and electrical equipment: International Harvester's truck plant and General Electric's motor and transformer works.
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.
- General Electric
Auto plants. Auto plants ran their own powerhouses, paint ovens, heat-treating furnaces, and foundries, all insulated and lined with asbestos, and the millwrights, pipefitters, and electricians who kept the lines running worked around it every shift.
- International Harvester truck plant
LafayetteLafayette's Alcoa aluminum works and Eli Lilly's Tippecanoe Laboratories were two of the Wabash valley's largest plants.
Chemical plants. Chemical plants combined high heat with corrosive service: furnaces and reactors lined with asbestos refractory, steam lines wrapped in asbestos insulation, and acid-resistant asbestos gaskets and packing at every flange.
- Eli Lilly Tippecanoe Laboratories
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.
- Alcoa Lafayette works
WhitingWhiting is a refinery town: Standard Oil of Indiana opened its refinery there in 1889, and Union Carbide's chemical plant ran nearby.
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.
- Standard Oil (Amoco) Whiting refinery
Chemical plants. Chemical plants combined high heat with corrosive service: furnaces and reactors lined with asbestos refractory, steam lines wrapped in asbestos insulation, and acid-resistant asbestos gaskets and packing at every flange.
- Union Carbide plant
Burns HarborBurns Harbor, on the lakeshore east of Gary, is home to the integrated steel mill Bethlehem Steel built there in the 1960s.
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.
- Bethlehem Steel Burns Harbor plant
GaryGary was founded by U.S. Steel and named for its chairman, Elbert H. Gary; the city and Gary Works, opened in 1908, grew up together on the Lake Michigan shore.
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.
- U.S. Steel Gary Works (Carnegie-Illinois Steel)
Other Indiana communitiesOne worksite each in 14 more communities.
Auto plants. Auto plants ran their own powerhouses, paint ovens, heat-treating furnaces, and foundries, all insulated and lined with asbestos, and the millwrights, pipefitters, and electricians who kept the lines running worked around it every shift.
- Bendix — South Bend
- Chrysler — Kokomo
- Cummins Engine — Columbus
- General Motors foundry (Allison and Central Foundry divisions) — Bedford
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.
- Indiana-Kentucky Electric Clifty Creek station — Madison
- Indianapolis Power & Light Petersburg station — Petersburg
- Public Service Indiana Wabash River station — Terre Haute
- Southern Indiana Gas & Electric — Evansville
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.
- Alcoa Warrick Operations — Newburgh
- Midwest Steel (National Steel) — Portage
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.
- Colgate-Palmolive plant — Jeffersonville
- General Electric plant — Shelbyville
Chemical plants. Chemical plants combined high heat with corrosive service: furnaces and reactors lined with asbestos refractory, steam lines wrapped in asbestos insulation, and acid-resistant asbestos gaskets and packing at every flange.
- General Electric Plastics plant — Mount Vernon
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.
- Indiana Army Ammunition Plant (DuPont Indiana Ordnance Works) — Charlestown
Mesothelioma settlement values at Indiana's most-documented worksites
These worksites appear on the approved-site lists of at least six 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.
U.S. Steel Gary Works (Carnegie-Illinois Steel)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Best | $30,500 | 18% | $5,490 |
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| ABB Lummus | $1,000 – $400,000 | 9.5% | $95 – $38,000 |
| 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 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| DII Industries (Harbison-Walker) | $144,897.50 – $610,000 | 60% | $86,938.50 – $366,000 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Flintkote | $184,000 – $450,000 | 15% | $27,600 – $67,500 |
| GAF | $155,000 – $450,000 | 5.0% | $7,750 – $22,500 |
| Kaiser Aluminum | Not published | — | — |
| NARCO | $75,000 – $1,379,580 | 100% | $75,000 – $1,379,580 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Plibrico | $350,000 – $750,000 | 0.94% | $3,290 – $7,050 |
| Raytech | Not published | — | — |
| U.S. Gypsum | $155,000 – $450,000 | 10% | $15,500 – $45,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Inland Steel Indiana Harbor Works
| 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 |
| 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 |
| DII Industries (Harbison-Walker) | $144,897.50 – $610,000 | 60% | $86,938.50 – $366,000 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| GAF | $155,000 – $450,000 | 5.0% | $7,750 – $22,500 |
| Kaiser Aluminum | Not published | — | — |
| NARCO | $75,000 – $1,379,580 | 100% | $75,000 – $1,379,580 |
| 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 |
| Raytech | Not published | — | — |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Bethlehem Steel Burns Harbor plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Best | $30,500 | 18% | $5,490 |
| 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 |
| DII Industries (Harbison-Walker) | $144,897.50 – $610,000 | 60% | $86,938.50 – $366,000 |
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Raytech | Not published | — | — |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Indiana Harbor Works (later J&L and LTV Steel)
| 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 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Flintkote | $184,000 – $450,000 | 15% | $27,600 – $67,500 |
| GAF | $155,000 – $450,000 | 5.0% | $7,750 – $22,500 |
| Kaiser Aluminum | Not published | — | — |
| NARCO | $75,000 – $1,379,580 | 100% | $75,000 – $1,379,580 |
| 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 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Sinclair refinery (later ARCO)
| 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 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| GAF | $155,000 – $450,000 | 5.0% | $7,750 – $22,500 |
| NARCO | $75,000 – $1,379,580 | 100% | $75,000 – $1,379,580 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
General Motors Allison Division
| 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 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| DII Industries (Harbison-Walker) | $144,897.50 – $610,000 | 60% | $86,938.50 – $366,000 |
| 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 |
Alcoa Warrick Operations
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Standard Oil (Amoco) Whiting 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 |
| Flintkote | $184,000 – $450,000 | 15% | $27,600 – $67,500 |
| GAF | $155,000 – $450,000 | 5.0% | $7,750 – $22,500 |
| Kaiser Aluminum | 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 |
Union Carbide plant
| 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 |
| Burns & Roe | Not published | — | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Indiana Army Ammunition Plant (DuPont Indiana Ordnance Works)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Cities Service 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 |
| 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 |
Socony-Vacuum (Mobil) refinery
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| ABB Lummus | $1,000 – $400,000 | 9.5% | $95 – $38,000 |
| 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 |
International Harvester truck plant
| 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 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Kaiser Aluminum | 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 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
National Starch & Chemical
| 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 |
| 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 |
Colgate-Palmolive plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Burns & Roe | Not published | — | — |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Alcoa Lafayette works
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Best | $30,500 | 18% | $5,490 |
| 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 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| 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 |
Eli Lilly Tippecanoe Laboratories
| 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 |
| 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 |
General Electric plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Best | $30,500 | 18% | $5,490 |
| ACandS | $150,000 – $550,000 | 2.89% | $4,335 – $15,895 |
| Armstrong World Industries | $110,000 – $400,000 | 7.8% | $8,580 – $31,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Raytech | Not published | — | — |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Public Service Indiana Wabash River 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 |
| 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 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
General Motors foundry (Allison and Central Foundry divisions)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Best | $30,500 | 18% | $5,490 |
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| 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 |
| Kaiser Aluminum | Not published | — | — |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Union Carbide Linde plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| ABB Lummus | $1,000 – $400,000 | 9.5% | $95 – $38,000 |
| 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 |
| DII Industries (Harbison-Walker) | $144,897.50 – $610,000 | 60% | $86,938.50 – $366,000 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Southern Indiana Gas & Electric
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
General Electric
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Best | $30,500 | 18% | $5,490 |
| 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 |
Indianapolis Power & Light
| 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 |
| 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 |
Indiana-Kentucky Electric Clifty Creek station
| 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 |
| NARCO | $75,000 – $1,379,580 | 100% | $75,000 – $1,379,580 |
| 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 |
General Electric Plastics plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| ABB Lummus | $1,000 – $400,000 | 9.5% | $95 – $38,000 |
| 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 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Indianapolis Power & Light Petersburg station
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACandS | $150,000 – $550,000 | 2.89% | $4,335 – $15,895 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Midwest Steel (National Steel)
| 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 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| GAF | $155,000 – $450,000 | 5.0% | $7,750 – $22,500 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Bendix
| 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 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| 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 Indiana worksites
The worksites below are recognized by the most asbestos trusts in Indiana — ten 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.
U.S. Steel Gary Works — Gary
U.S. Steel built Gary Works on the southern shore of Lake Michigan and opened it in 1908; the city of Gary grew up around the mill and was named for the company's chairman, Elbert H. Gary. For decades it was one of the largest integrated steel mills in the world, and U.S. Steel still runs it. From 1935 until 1951 the mill operated under Carnegie-Illinois Steel, the U.S. Steel subsidiary formed from Carnegie Steel and Illinois Steel. The trusts list it under U.S. Steel, United States Steel, Carnegie-Illinois Steel, Gary Steel, and the Gary Sheet & Tin Mill; we count them as one site.
Workers exposed. Integrated steel manufacturing at Gary Works required refractory bricklayers, boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, millwrights, mill operators, mechanics, electricians, sheet-metal workers, and laborers across the blast furnaces, steelmaking shops, coke ovens, and rolling mills.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 20 asbestos trusts — A-Best, A.P. Green, ABB Lummus, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), DII Industries (Harbison-Walker), Fibreboard, Flintkote, GAF, Kaiser Aluminum, NARCO, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Plibrico, Raytech, U.S. Gypsum, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1908 through 1984.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green, Harbison-Walker, NARCO, Plibrico, and Kaiser refractory brick, castables, and cements lined the blast furnaces, steelmaking vessels, soaking pits, and coke ovens, and had to be torn out and replaced at every reline. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers raised the mill's steam, with pipe and block insulation 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 covered more steam piping, much of it applied by ACandS and Armstrong insulation crews. ABB Lummus did engineering and construction work here, and the Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. U.S. Gypsum, GAF, and Flintkote documentation points to joint compound and roofing and building products, Raytech supplied friction materials for the mill's cranes, and A-Best supplied asbestos protective clothing for work at the furnaces. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Inland Steel Indiana Harbor Works — East Chicago
Inland Steel's Indiana Harbor Works on the Indiana Harbor Ship Canal at East Chicago grew over the twentieth century into one of the largest steel mills in the country, with blast furnaces, steelmaking shops, coke oven batteries, and rolling mills on one site. The plant passed to Ispat in 1998 and is now part of Cleveland-Cliffs. The trusts list it under Inland Steel, Inland Steel Indiana Harbor, Ispat Inland, and its numbered plants, and some file it under Indiana Harbor rather than East Chicago; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Integrated steel manufacturing at Inland's scale required refractory bricklayers, boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, millwrights, mill operators, mechanics, electricians, and laborers across the blast furnace, basic oxygen furnace, coke oven, and rolling mill operations.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 17 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), DII Industries (Harbison-Walker), Fibreboard, GAF, Kaiser Aluminum, NARCO, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning, Raytech, Turner & Newall, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1904 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green, Harbison-Walker, NARCO, and Kaiser refractory brick and cement lined the blast furnaces, steelmaking vessels, and coke ovens and were chipped out and replaced during every reline. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers carried pipe and block insulation 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; Pittsburgh Corning's amosite-rich Unibestos and Fibreboard pipe insulation covered more high-temperature lines. ACandS and Turner & Newall on the same list point to Limpet sprayed asbestos, which carried amosite and, in its Limpet Blue grade, crocidolite (blue asbestos). The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors, Raytech supplied friction materials for cranes and rolling equipment, and GAF documentation points to roofing products across the mill buildings. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Bethlehem Steel Burns Harbor plant — Burns Harbor
Bethlehem Steel built its Burns Harbor plant on the Lake Michigan shore in the 1960s, the last large integrated steel mill built in the United States. After Bethlehem's 2001 bankruptcy the plant changed hands several times and is now part of Cleveland-Cliffs. The trusts list it under Burns Harbor, Chesterton, and Portage, the neighboring towns; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Integrated steel operations at Burns Harbor required refractory bricklayers, boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, millwrights, mill operators, mechanics, electricians, and laborers across the blast furnace, basic oxygen furnace, coke oven, and finishing mill complex.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 13 asbestos trusts — A-Best, A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), DII Industries (Harbison-Walker), Fibreboard, Kaiser Aluminum, NARCO, Owens Corning, Pittsburgh Corning, Raytech, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1952 through 1984.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green, Harbison-Walker, NARCO, and Kaiser refractory lined the blast furnaces, basic oxygen vessels, and coke oven batteries. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers carried insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning's Kaylo line and Fibreboard pipe and block insulation, their high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Pittsburgh Corning's amosite-rich Unibestos covered the steam and process piping. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors, Raytech supplied friction materials for cranes and rolling equipment, and A-Best supplied asbestos protective clothing. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Indiana Harbor Works — East Chicago
Youngstown Sheet & Tube's Indiana Harbor Works sat beside Inland Steel's mill in East Chicago. Lykes Corporation acquired Youngstown Sheet & Tube in 1969, and in 1978 LTV merged it with Jones & Laughlin; the plant later ran as LTV Steel. The trusts list it under all of those names, and under Indiana Harbor as well as East Chicago; it is one facility, separate from Inland Steel's.
Workers exposed. Integrated steel operations required refractory bricklayers, boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, millwrights, mill operators, mechanics, and electricians across the blast furnaces, boiler houses, hot strip and cold-reduced sheet mills, and tin mill.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 13 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Fibreboard, Flintkote, GAF, Kaiser Aluminum, NARCO, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1926 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green, NARCO, and Kaiser refractory lined the blast furnaces and coke ovens. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers, including the blast furnace boiler house, carried pipe and block insulation 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; Pittsburgh Corning's amosite-rich Unibestos and Fibreboard pipe insulation covered more steam piping. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors, and GAF and Flintkote documentation points to roofing and building products across the mill buildings. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Standard Oil (Amoco) Whiting refinery — Whiting
Standard Oil opened its Whiting refinery in 1889, and it grew into one of the largest refineries in the country under Standard Oil Company (Indiana), which sold its products under the American Oil and Amoco names. BP has run it since its merger with Amoco. The trusts list it under Standard Oil, Standard Oil of Indiana, American Oil, Amoco, and the Whiting refinery; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Refinery operations of this scale required pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, refractory workers on the cat crackers and process heaters, mechanics, instrument technicians, and electricians, along with the contract crews who worked turnarounds.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 10 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, DII Industries (Halliburton), Fibreboard, Flintkote, GAF, Kaiser Aluminum, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1926 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green and Kaiser refractory lined the cat crackers, crude heaters, and process heaters, and Babcock & Wilcox boilers powered the refinery's steam systems, with gaskets and packing on every steam connection and access door. 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, and Fibreboard supplied more pipe and block insulation. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington, and GAF and Flintkote documentation points to roofing and building products. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories, and crocidolite (blue asbestos) appeared in the gaskets, packing, and cement pipe of the refinery's acid service.
Sinclair refinery (later ARCO) — East Chicago
Sinclair Refining Company's East Chicago refinery was part of the cluster of refineries around Whiting and East Chicago at the south end of Lake Michigan. Atlantic Richfield acquired Sinclair in 1969, and the trusts list the plant under Sinclair, ARCO, and Atlantic Richfield; some file it under Chicago rather than East Chicago. It is one facility.
Workers exposed. Refinery operations of this scale required pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, refractory workers on the cracking units and process heaters, mechanics, instrument technicians, and electricians.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 10 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Babcock & Wilcox, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, GAF, NARCO, Owens Corning, Pittsburgh Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1947 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green and NARCO refractory lined the cracking units, crude heater, and process heaters, and Babcock & Wilcox boilers carried insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning's Kaylo line and Fibreboard pipe and block insulation, their high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), Pittsburgh Corning's amosite-rich Unibestos, and Eagle-Picher One-Cote insulating cement covered the process and steam piping. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors moving process streams across the units, and GAF documentation points to roofing products. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories, and crocidolite (blue asbestos) appeared in the gaskets, packing, and cement pipe of the refinery's acid service.
General Motors Allison Division — Indianapolis
James A. Allison founded the Allison engineering company in Indianapolis, and General Motors bought it in 1929. As GM's Allison Division it built the V-1710 aircraft engine in World War II, then turbine engines and heavy transmissions. The trusts list it under General Motors Allison Division and its research laboratories, test cells, and plant buildings; we count them as one site.
Workers exposed. Machinists, engine assembly and test-cell workers, pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, millwrights, mechanics, and electricians, along with the construction crews who built and expanded the plant and its test facilities.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 10 asbestos trusts — ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), DII Industries (Harbison-Walker), Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1939 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers raised the plant's steam, with pipe and block insulation, Harbison-Walker 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, and Fibreboard supplied more pipe insulation. ACandS and Armstrong insulation crews worked the research laboratories and engine test cells, where hot exhaust and high-temperature piping called for heavy insulation, and the Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Alcoa Warrick Operations — Newburgh
Alcoa built its Warrick aluminum smelter on the Ohio River near Newburgh and began producing aluminum there in 1960, with a coal-fired power plant on the same site to run its potlines. The trusts list it under Alcoa, Aluminum Company of America, and Warrick, and file it under Newburgh, Yankeetown, Warrick, and Evansville; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Aluminum smelting required refractory workers on the pots and furnaces, boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, millwrights, mechanics, electricians, and power plant operators, along with the construction crews who built the smelter and its power plant.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 10 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1957 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green refractory lined the smelting and holding furnaces, and Babcock & Wilcox boilers in the power plant carried pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing. Owens-Illinois and Owens Corning Kaylo, Fibreboard pipe insulation, and Pittsburgh Corning's Unibestos, their high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the steam and turbine piping, with Eagle-Picher insulating cement on fittings and equipment, much of it applied by ACandS and Armstrong insulation crews. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Indiana entries by city
The trusts' lists hold Indiana entries in 301 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 |
|---|---|
| Indianapolis | 437 |
| East Chicago | 240 |
| Fort Wayne | 218 |
| Terre Haute | 150 |
| Evansville | 140 |
| Gary | 133 |
| South Bend | 94 |
| Hammond | 76 |
| Marion | 71 |
| Muncie | 68 |
| Lafayette | 60 |
| Kokomo | 59 |
| Richmond | 52 |
| Whiting | 52 |
| Columbus | 51 |
| Mount Vernon | 49 |
| Anderson | 47 |
| Elkhart | 41 |
| Wabash | 40 |
| Lawrenceburg | 39 |
| Michigan City | 37 |
| Madison | 33 |
| Logansport | 32 |
| Burns Harbor | 31 |
| Mishawaka | 31 |
| La Porte | 30 |
| Newburgh | 30 |
| New Castle | 28 |
| Vincennes | 28 |
| Jeffersonville | 27 |
| Shelbyville | 22 |
| Huntington | 20 |
| Kendallville | 20 |
| Peru | 20 |
| Portland | 20 |
| Princeton | 20 |
| Bloomington | 19 |
| Chesterton | 19 |
| Martinsville | 18 |
| Noblesville | 18 |
| Portage | 18 |
| Connersville | 17 |
| Frankfort | 17 |
| New Albany | 16 |
| Petersburg | 16 |
| Auburn | 15 |
| Bedford | 15 |
| Cayuga | 15 |
| Goshen | 15 |
| Bluffton | 13 |
| Seymour | 12 |
| Warsaw | 12 |
| Clinton | 11 |
| Crawfordsville | 11 |
| West Lafayette | 11 |
| Charlestown | 10 |
| Decatur | 10 |
| Greenfield | 10 |
| Newport | 10 |
| Washington | 10 |
| Fairbanks | 9 |
| Hartford City | 9 |
| Angola | 8 |
| Brazil | 8 |
| Edwardsport | 8 |
| Jasper | 8 |
| Speedway | 8 |
| Woodburn | 8 |
| Beech Grove | 7 |
| Dana | 7 |
| Elwood | 7 |
| North Manchester | 7 |
| Butler | 6 |
| Dunkirk | 6 |
| Gas City | 6 |
| Mitchell | 6 |
| Rochester | 6 |
| Rockport | 6 |
| Speed | 6 |
| Tell City | 6 |
| Winchester | 6 |
| Zionsville | 6 |
| Brookville | 5 |
| Edinburgh | 5 |
| Griffith | 5 |
| Lebanon | 5 |
| Merrillville | 5 |
| Monticello | 5 |
| Orleans | 5 |
| West Terre Haute | 5 |
| Wheatfield | 5 |
| Aurora | 4 |
| Bunker Hill | 4 |
| Crane | 4 |
| Gibson | 4 |
| Greencastle | 4 |
| Jonesboro | 4 |
| Nappanee | 4 |
| Oakland City | 4 |
| Plainfield | 4 |
| Rushville | 4 |
| Valparaiso | 4 |
| Alexandria | 3 |
| Attica | 3 |
| Boonville | 3 |
| Butlerville | 3 |
| Cannelton | 3 |
| Columbia City | 3 |
| Covington | 3 |
| Delphi | 3 |
| Eaton | 3 |
| Fort Branch | 3 |
| Franklin | 3 |
| Grand View | 3 |
| Grasselli | 3 |
| Greensburg | 3 |
| Hanover | 3 |
| Knightstown | 3 |
| Lawrence | 3 |
| Ligonier | 3 |
| Mount Summit | 3 |
| Notre Dame | 3 |
| Olin | 3 |
| Pendleton | 3 |
| Roby | 3 |
| Saint Mary-of-the-Woods | 3 |
| Sellersburg | 3 |
| Sheridan | 3 |
| South Whitley | 3 |
| Sullivan | 3 |
| Yankeetown | 3 |
The trusts' lists also name 170 other Indiana communities.
The smaller communities on the lists include Crane, home of Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane, and Bunker Hill, home of Grissom Air Reserve Base.
Search the asbestos trusts' Indiana 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 3,000 entries, as the trusts list them.
Court decisions: 37 asbestos cases from Indiana courts
Worksites named in court opinions
Court decisions in our library name these Indiana workplaces as places where people were exposed to asbestos.
Inland Steel Indiana Harbor Works
- Jurich v. John Crane, Inc. (2005): Worked at Inland Steel, 1946-1986
- Harris v. AC & S., Inc. (2003): Employee at Inland Steel, 1960-1993
- Jurich v. Garlock, Inc. (2003): Worked for Inland Steel, 1946-1986
- Harris v. AC & S., Inc. (2002): Laborer, oven patcher, and group leader, 1960-1993
- Jurich v. Garlock, Inc. (2001): Pipe fitter, later mill mechanic, 1946-1986
Union Carbide Speedway plant
- Spoonamore v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1999): Laborer/supervisor
- Spoonamore v. Armstrong World Industries, Inc. (1998): Laborer and laborer/supervisor, 1942-1963
Alcoa Warrick Operations (aluminum smelter)
- Harris v. AC & S, Inc. (1995): Trucker, laborer, furnace operator and melting attendant, 1970-1988
Babcock & Wilcox Mt. Vernon plant
- Peerman v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (1994): Shipping and receiving department worker and supervisor, 1972-1979
Central State Hospital
- Lambert v. Babcock & Wilcox Co. (1999): Steam plant supervisor, 1970-1984
Colgate-Palmolive plant
- General Elec. Co. v. Cain (2007): Millwright, 1975-1982
Cummins Engine Company plant
- Allied Signal, Inc. v. Herring (2001): Employee of Cummins Engine Company, 1942-1978
General Electric washing machine plant
- General Elec. Co. v. Cain (2007): Iron-worker
PSI Dresser generating station
- Psi Energy, Inc. v. Roberts (2005): Insulator, late 1960s-1970s
U.S. Steel Gary Works (USX)
- Black v. ACandS, Inc. (2001): Blast furnace worker, 1956-1983
University Motors
- Crowder V AW Chesterton Co. (2009): Mechanic working with Volkswagen automobiles, repairing brakes and clutches, 1968-1971
Every worksite named in Indiana 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 Indiana 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.
- East ChicagoUnited States Gypsum Company · 1920–1976 · 9 products
- HuntingtonThe Asbestos Manufacturing Company · from 1925
- PorterSall Mountain Co. · 1 product
- ShoalsUnited States Gypsum Company · 1957–1965 · 2 products
- WabashPerfection Tire & Rubber Company, Mikesell Brothers Company · from 1920
- WabashR. J. Evans · from 1934
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 an Indiana 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 an Indiana case may work
George is a 75-year-old retired boilermaker from East Chicago. From 1969 through 2005 — 36 years — he worked at Inland Steel's Indiana Harbor Works in East Chicago, primarily in boiler maintenance and rolling mill maintenance across the integrated steel manufacturing complex along the Indiana Harbor Canal. Over his career he worked on the blast furnace operations, the basic oxygen furnace shops, the rolling mills, the coke oven batteries, and the broader integrated mill. His daily work involved replacing high-temperature pipe and block insulation on steam and process piping, removing and replacing refractory in the blast furnaces and coke ovens during reline cycles, swapping out gaskets and packing on valves and pumps across the mill, and working alongside insulation crews applying sprayed insulation on structural steel and equipment. He had no idea any of it was dangerous. In late 2025 he developed persistent chest pain and shortness of breath. Imaging and a pleural biopsy in March 2026 confirmed pleural mesothelioma of the epithelioid mesothelioma variety.
When George's daughter called us, we matched his Inland Steel career to the asbestos bankruptcy trusts that list the Indiana Harbor Works. Inland Steel is on the lists of at least sixteen trusts besides Johns-Manville — A.P. Green, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), DII Industries (Harbison-Walker), Fibreboard, GAF, Kaiser Aluminum, NARCO, Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, Pittsburgh Corning, Raytech, and Turner & Newall — and because George's work there began in 1969, well within the pre-1982 window, his Johns-Manville Settlement Trust eligibility is automatic. ACandS and Turner & Newall on the same list support filings tied to the sprayed Limpet insulation George worked around. We also pursue civil claims in Indiana state court against the still-solvent manufacturers of the products he worked with; because George worked for Inland Steel, his claim against Inland itself runs through Indiana's Occupational Diseases Act. Our representation also includes free asbestos health screening for George's wife and his two adult children, who lived in the family home through the years George brought asbestos fibers home on his work clothes. Recoveries from cases like George'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 an East Chicago worker is the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University in Chicago (roughly 30 miles), with the Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center in Indianapolis as the in-state NCI option. Advanced treatments like HIPEC, pleurectomy/decortication, and the latest immunotherapy combinations are available at both. 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 the priority. How legal recovery funds mesothelioma treatment access →.
For the full treatment of Indiana's discovery rule, why Indiana's ten-year product limit does not bar asbestos claims, the comparative fault framework, the premises liability standard, and the damages framework, see the Indiana 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 Indiana 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 3,000 Indiana entries on the asbestos trusts' lists; dozens of clients with Indiana job sites
- Worksite-specific knowledge — we work from documented trust coverage rather than generic intake scripts. Gary Works, Inland Steel, Bethlehem Steel Burns Harbor, the Whiting and East Chicago refineries, the Indianapolis plants, and the federal installations at Crane and Grissom are all on the trusts' lists
- Trust + civil + federal benefits coordinated case by case with the trial team — Johns-Manville plus the site-specific trusts plus civil claims plus VA and SSDI applications where applicable
- Remote case handling — phone, video, home visit. No office travel required
- Free family asbestos health screening for spouses and children of every client
- No fee unless we recover for your family
Frequently asked questions
Is my Indiana worksite documented?
Probably yes. The asbestos trusts' approved-site lists hold more than 3,000 Indiana entries in 301 communities — the Calumet steel mills, the Whiting and East Chicago refineries, the Indianapolis plants, the power stations along the Wabash and Ohio rivers, auto and engine plants, and the federal installations at Crane and Grissom, along with a wide range of smaller industrial and commercial operations across the state. 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?
When an asbestos manufacturer files for bankruptcy, it typically sets up a settlement trust to pay future asbestos victims. Each trust maintains documentation of where its products were used. When we say a site is "recognized by 6 trusts," we mean six different asbestos trusts have records establishing that their products were used at that location — meaning a worker exposed there is positioned to file claims against all six trusts. Trust claims operate as paper filings, separately from any civil lawsuit, and recoveries from one trust do not reduce or offset recoveries from another.
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. You do not need to come to the call with product names, exposure dates, or work records. We reconstruct the exposure history using the trusts' site lists, 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.
What if my loved one worked at multiple Indiana sites?
A multi-site career strengthens the case. Many Calumet workers spent time at more than one mill — Inland Steel and U.S. Steel Gary, or Bethlehem Steel Burns Harbor and Midwest Steel Portage, or any combination. Many refinery workers crossed between Sinclair, Standard Oil, Union Carbide, and other Whiting-area facilities. Each site contributes its own trusts, and the combined exposure profile supports the strongest possible filings.
Does Indiana's product liability statute of repose block asbestos claims?
Usually not. The Indiana Supreme Court holds that Indiana's ten-year statute of repose for product liability claims does not apply to disease caused by long-term exposure to asbestos. The two-year deadline still applies, counted from when the disease and its cause were discovered; to be safe, count from the date of diagnosis.
What if my loved one's worksite has closed or been demolished?
Closure and demolition do not affect trust claims or civil claims. Inland Steel changed hands through Ispat International and is now operated as part of Cleveland-Cliffs. Bethlehem Steel went through bankruptcy in 2001 and Burns Harbor is now operated by Cleveland-Cliffs. Youngstown Sheet & Tube was acquired by Lykes and ultimately LTV Steel. None of these transitions blocks asbestos trust or civil claims, because the trust claim looks to the asbestos product manufacturer (not to the current owner of the mill), and civil claims attach to the corporate successor.
Can we file a claim if my loved one already passed away?
Yes. Indiana's wrongful death framework allows the personal representative of the estate to file on behalf of the surviving spouse, dependent children, and other statutory beneficiaries. The deadline is two years from the date of death. We handle wrongful death cases routinely, and the documentation pathway — trust claims, civil claims, and federal benefits where applicable — works the same way it does for a living worker's claim.
What if my loved one served at NSWC Crane or Grissom Air Reserve Base?
Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane has operated since 1941 as a major Navy explosives, electronic warfare, and munitions facility, and Grissom (originally Bunker Hill AFB) operated as a Strategic Air Command base across the Cold War era before realigning to Air Force Reserve operations in 1994. Active-duty veterans of either installation may be eligible for VA service-connected disability — available with proof of in-service asbestos exposure and a doctor's opinion linking it to service. Federal civilian employees at either installation are covered by the Federal Employees' Compensation Act (FECA). We coordinate VA and FECA filings alongside trust and civil claims.
Talk with an Indiana 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.
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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.