The Oregon worksites that the most asbestos trusts recognize were nearly all built to turn trees into something else. Douglas fir and pine went to sawmills and plywood plants, and above all to the kraft pulp and paper mills of the Willamette Valley, the lower Columbia, and the coast, where recovery boilers, lime kilns, digesters, and miles of steam line ran hot around the clock behind asbestos insulation, refractory, and gaskets. World War II added Kaiser's shipyards on the Willamette, and cheap Columbia River power drew aluminum and specialty-metals plants after them. Mapped out, the trusts' Oregon entries fall into a few clusters:
- the mid-Willamette Valley mills — Western Kraft's paper mill at Albany and Weyerhaeuser's Springfield mill, the two worksites most trusts recognize in the state;
- Willamette Falls and the Newberg reach — Crown Zellerbach's West Linn mill and Publishers Paper's mills at Oregon City and Newberg;
- the lower Columbia — Boise Cascade and St. Helens Pulp & Paper at St. Helens, and Crown Zellerbach's Wauna mill;
- Portland's river yards — Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding and Swan Island yards, with Willamette Iron & Steel;
- the coast and the Umpqua country — Georgia-Pacific at Toledo, International Paper at Gardiner, and Roseburg Lumber at Dillard; and
- the metals plants — Reynolds Metals' aluminum smelter at Troutdale, Wah Chang at Albany, and the Hanna Nickel smelter at Riddle.
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 Oregon, those lists hold more than 1,500 entries across 113 communities, from 26 asbestos trusts. One plant can appear many times, under different names or on different trusts' lists. Several of our clients worked at Oregon 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.
Oregon filing deadlines and trust eligibility, in brief
Oregon gives a diagnosed worker two years to file a claim against the companies that made the asbestos products. 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 Oregon court may count the two years from that earlier finding, so call us right away. After a death, the family usually has three years from when the illness was discovered, and never more than three years after the death; claims against the companies that made the products may have only two years, so count two years from the diagnosis. If your loved one is alive and diagnosed, calling early keeps more options open.
Oregon 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 a routine part of our practice.
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 clothes, 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 companies that made the asbestos products 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 Oregon
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-five other trusts list Oregon worksites. The number of Oregon entries on each trust's list:
- Johns-Manville: no list of its own; every site on the other trusts' lists qualifies
- Combustion Engineering: 832 entries (boilers and refractory)
- Babcock & Wilcox: 247 entries (industrial and utility boilers)
- Owens Corning: 206 entries (Kaylo and high-temperature pipe and block insulation)
- A.P. Green: 93 entries (refractory brick, castables and cements)
- DII Industries (Halliburton): 93 entries (pumps, compressors and oilfield equipment)
- Fibreboard: 77 entries (Pabco pipe and block insulation)
- ACandS: 57 entries (insulation contracting)
- Armstrong World Industries: 53 entries (insulation contracting and floor products)
- W.R. Grace: 38 entries (Monokote spray fireproofing and Zonolite)
- Eagle-Picher: 35 entries (insulating cements and pipe covering)
- Turner & Newall: 20 entries (Limpet sprayed asbestos and asbestos textiles)
- Kaiser Aluminum: 14 entries (refractory and insulating products)
- Flintkote: 11 entries (roofing, flooring and building products)
- U.S. Gypsum: 10 entries (joint compound, plaster and acoustical products)
- NARCO: 8 entries (refractory gun mixes and castables)
- Owens-Illinois: 8 entries (Kaylo pipe and block insulation)
- J.T. Thorpe (California): 6 entries (insulation and refractory contracting)
- DII Industries (Harbison-Walker): 4 entries (refractory brick and castables)
- GAF: 4 entries (roofing and building products)
- Plibrico: 3 entries (refractory plastics and castables)
- Burns & Roe: 2 entries (power-plant engineering and construction)
- Western Asbestos: 2 entries (insulation contracting and distribution)
- ABB Lummus: 1 entry (refinery and petrochemical engineering)
- ASARCO: 1 entry (asbestos mining and smelting)
- Pittsburgh Corning: 1 entry (Unibestos pipe insulation)
Trust coverage at this depth means most Oregon workers with significant industrial exposure histories will have claims against multiple trusts — typically Johns-Manville plus the site-specific trusts documented at their worksites.
Oregon 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.
PortlandPortland's river yards built ships by the hundreds in World War II, at Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding yard in St. Johns and on Swan Island, alongside Willamette Iron & Steel and Albina Engine & Machine Works; Combustion Engineering's list also names hundreds of the ships themselves.
Shipyards. Ships' boilers, engine rooms, and steam lines were insulated with asbestos, much of it to Navy specification, and shipyard workers in tight spaces breathed the dust whether or not they handled it themselves.
- Albina Engine & Machine Works
- Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation (Kaiser)
- Swan Island Shipyard (Kaiser)
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.
- Willamette Iron & Steel
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.
- Publishers Paper
AlbanyAlbany paired a kraft paper mill, Western Kraft's (later Willamette Industries'), with Wah Chang's plant for zirconium and other reactive metals.
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.
- Wah Chang (Teledyne Wah Chang, later ATI)
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.
- Western Kraft Albany mill (Willamette Industries)
St. HelensSt. Helens, on the lower Columbia, was a paper town: the Boise Cascade mill and St. Helens Pulp & Paper both appear on the trusts' lists.
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.
- Boise Cascade St. Helens mill
- St. Helens Pulp & Paper mill
Other Oregon communitiesOne worksite each in 14 more communities.
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.
- Brooks-Scanlon mill — Bend
- Crown Zellerbach Wauna mill (later James River) — Wauna
- Crown Zellerbach West Linn mill (Crown Willamette, later West Linn Paper) — West Linn
- Georgia-Pacific Toledo mill — Toledo
- International Paper Gardiner mill — Gardiner
- Publishers Paper Newberg mill (Spaulding Pulp & Paper) — Newberg
- Publishers Paper Oregon City mill — Oregon City
- Roseburg Lumber Company — Dillard
- Tektronix — Beaverton
- Weyerhaeuser Springfield mill — Springfield
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.
- Hanna Nickel smelter — Riddle
- Harvey Aluminum The Dalles smelter (later Martin Marietta) — The Dalles
- Reynolds Metals Troutdale smelter (later Alcoa) — Troutdale
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.
- Oregon State Penitentiary — Salem
Mesothelioma settlement values at Oregon'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.
Western Kraft Albany mill (Willamette Industries)
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Weyerhaeuser Springfield mill
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Boise Cascade St. Helens mill
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Georgia-Pacific Toledo mill
| 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 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
International Paper Gardiner mill
| 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 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Roseburg Lumber Company
| 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 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Publishers Paper Oregon City mill
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| 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 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Publishers Paper
| 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 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Wah Chang (Teledyne Wah Chang, later ATI)
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Tektronix
| 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 |
| Flintkote | $184,000 – $450,000 | 15% | $27,600 – $67,500 |
| 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 |
Publishers Paper Newberg mill (Spaulding Pulp & Paper)
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Willamette Iron & 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 |
| 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 |
St. Helens Pulp & Paper mill
| 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 |
| 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 |
Crown Zellerbach Wauna mill (later James River)
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Brooks-Scanlon mill
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| ACandS | $150,000 – $550,000 | 2.89% | $4,335 – $15,895 |
| Armstrong World Industries | $110,000 – $400,000 | 7.8% | $8,580 – $31,200 |
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Albina Engine & Machine Works
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation (Kaiser)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Combustion Engineering | $75,000 – $400,000 | 15.3% | $11,475 – $61,200 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Swan Island Shipyard (Kaiser)
| 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 |
| NARCO | $75,000 – $1,379,580 | 100% | $75,000 – $1,379,580 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Hanna Nickel smelter
| 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 |
| 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 |
Oregon State Penitentiary
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| 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 |
Harvey Aluminum The Dalles smelter (later Martin Marietta)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| J.T. Thorpe (California) | Not published | — | — |
| Kaiser Aluminum | Not published | — | — |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Reynolds Metals Troutdale smelter (later Alcoa)
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| NARCO | $75,000 – $1,379,580 | 100% | $75,000 – $1,379,580 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Crown Zellerbach West Linn mill (Crown Willamette, later West Linn Paper)
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Cascade Fiber
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Weyerhaeuser Klamath Falls mill
| 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 |
| Owens-Illinois | $100,000 – $382,600 | 65% | $65,000 – $248,690 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
U.S. Plywood Lebanon plant
| 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 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Menasha paperboard mill
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Boise Cascade Corporation
| 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 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Crown Zellerbach
| 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 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Turner & Newall | $200,000 – $600,000 | 2.9% | $5,800 – $17,400 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Portland Gas & Coke Company
| 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 |
| J.T. Thorpe (California) | Not published | — | — |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Boise Cascade Salem mill
| 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 |
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Fibreboard | $135,000 – $450,000 | 3.5% | $4,725 – $15,750 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
A closer look at major Oregon worksites
The worksites below are recognized by the most asbestos trusts in Oregon — eight or more, counting Johns-Manville — along with Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding yard, where Portland built Liberty and Victory ships in World War II. 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.
Western Kraft Albany mill (Willamette Industries) — Albany
Western Kraft's pulp and paper mill on the Willamette, just north of Albany, operated for decades as one of the largest industrial employers in Linn County. Western Kraft was part of the Willamette Industries group, and the mill passed to Weyerhaeuser when Weyerhaeuser acquired Willamette Industries in 2002. The trusts list it as Western Kraft, Western Craft, the Kraft Paper mill, and the Willamette paper mill, and one list files it under Millersburg; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Western Kraft required the full Pacific Northwest mill workforce — pulp-mill operators, paper-machine crews, recovery-boiler and lime-kiln operators, refractory workers, boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, millwrights, mechanics, and electricians.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 11 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Turner & Newall, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1954 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green refractory lined the recovery boiler furnaces and lime kilns, and Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers — including the recovery boilers at the heart of kraft pulping — carried insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing on access doors and steam connections. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Fibreboard Pabco pipe and block insulation covered the steam and process piping, with Eagle-Picher insulating cement on fittings and valves, much of it applied by ACandS and Armstrong insulation crews. Turner & Newall's list names the digester: its Limpet sprayed asbestos was an amosite product in its standard form, and Limpet Blue was made with crocidolite (blue asbestos). The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Weyerhaeuser Springfield mill — Springfield
Weyerhaeuser, the timber company founded in Tacoma in 1900, built a large operation at Springfield, east of Eugene, after World War II: lumber and plywood plants alongside a kraft pulp and paper mill. The trusts list it as Weyerhaeuser Company, Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, and the Weyerhaeuser paper mill; we treat the Springfield listings as one complex.
Workers exposed. Forest-products and paper-mill trades — recovery-boiler and power-plant operators, insulators, pipefitters, boilermakers, refractory workers, millwrights, mechanics, and the maintenance crews that kept the steam plant and process equipment running.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 11 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Kaiser Aluminum, Owens Corning, Turner & Newall, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1947 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers carried the steam load, with pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing at every access door and steam connection; A.P. Green and Kaiser refractory lined the furnaces and kilns. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the hottest piping, and Eagle-Picher insulating cement finished fittings and equipment, with ACandS and Armstrong crews doing insulation contracting across the mill. Turner & Newall's list names the tanks and breeching, where its Limpet sprayed asbestos — amosite in standard Limpet, crocidolite (blue asbestos) in Limpet Blue — insulated hot surfaces. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Boise Cascade St. Helens mill — St. Helens
Boise Cascade ran a pulp and paper mill on the Columbia River at St. Helens, in Columbia County, one of the lower Columbia's long-running mill operations. The trusts list it as Boise Cascade Corporation, Boise Cascade Company, and the Boise Cascade paper mill; it is one facility. St. Helens Pulp & Paper, which the trusts list separately, appears in the settlement table above.
Workers exposed. Pulp and paper mill operations of this scale required boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, millwrights, mechanics, electricians, and recovery-boiler and lime-kiln operators. The recovery boiler is the highest-temperature, most asbestos-intensive piece of equipment in a kraft mill, and the trades that worked around it during construction, overhaul, and routine maintenance carried the heaviest exposure.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 10 asbestos trusts — ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Turner & Newall, 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 anchored the steam and recovery operations, with refractory and gaskets and packing on access doors and steam connections. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), ran the high-temperature lines; Eagle-Picher One-Cote and magnesia insulating cement covered fittings, valves, and irregular shapes; and Fibreboard Pabco block and pipe insulation appeared across the mill, with ACandS and Armstrong crews applying insulation. Turner & Newall's list names the mill's duct work, where its Limpet sprayed asbestos was used — amosite in standard Limpet, crocidolite (blue asbestos) in Limpet Blue. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Georgia-Pacific Toledo mill — Toledo
Georgia-Pacific's kraft mill at Toledo, on the Yaquina River inland from Newport, makes containerboard and has been a defining employer on the central Oregon coast since the late 1950s. The trusts list it under Georgia-Pacific's pulp and paper, power plant, and Lincoln County listings; it is one facility. Owens Corning's list names a Combustion Engineering boiler in the mill's power plant.
Workers exposed. Containerboard production required pulp-mill operators, paper-machine crews, recovery-boiler and lime-kiln operators, refractory workers, pipefitters, boilermakers, insulators, millwrights, mechanics, and electricians.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 10 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Turner & Newall, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1956 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green supplied the refractory brick and refractory cement for the recovery-boiler furnace and the lime kilns, and Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers carried the steam load with their insulation and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Fibreboard Pabco block insulation ran the steam and process piping, with ACandS and Armstrong crews doing the insulation work. Turner & Newall's list names mill equipment and the hot-well tank, where its Limpet sprayed asbestos was used — amosite in standard Limpet, crocidolite (blue asbestos) in Limpet Blue. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington, the pumps that moved black liquor, white liquor, and process water through the mill. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
International Paper Gardiner mill — Gardiner
International Paper's kraft mill at Gardiner stood on the Umpqua River near Reedsport, on the southern Oregon coast. The trusts list it as International Paper Company and the International Paper mill; Turner & Newall's list names it together with Stearns-Roger, the Denver engineering firm that worked at the mill. It is one facility.
Workers exposed. Pulp-mill and paper-machine crews, recovery-boiler and lime-kiln operators, boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers, millwrights, mechanics, and electricians, along with the construction crews who built and expanded the mill.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 9 asbestos trusts — ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Turner & Newall, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1962 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers, including the recovery boilers, carried pipe and block insulation, refractory, and gaskets and packing on access doors and steam connections. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Fibreboard pipe insulation covered the steam and process piping, applied in large part by ACandS and Armstrong crews. Turner & Newall Limpet sprayed asbestos was used here — amosite in standard Limpet, crocidolite (blue asbestos) in Limpet Blue — and the Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Roseburg Lumber Company — Dillard
Roseburg Lumber's complex at Dillard, on the South Umpqua River south of Roseburg, is one of the major Douglas County forest-products operations: sawmill and plywood plants and the boilers that powered them. The company is now Roseburg Forest Products. The trusts list it as Roseburg Lumber and Roseburg Lumber Company; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Forest-products operations required mill workers, boiler operators, insulators, pipefitters, mechanics, electricians, and the maintenance trades that kept the steam plant, dryers, and presses running.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 8 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1948 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers anchored the steam plant, with A.P. Green refractory in the fireboxes and gaskets and packing at every steam connection. Eagle-Picher insulating cement covered fittings and equipment, and ACandS and Armstrong crews applied pipe and block insulation across the steam and process lines; the high-temperature grades of that insulation were commonly made with amosite (brown asbestos). The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Publishers Paper Oregon City mill — Oregon City
Publishers Paper's newsprint mill stood at Willamette Falls on the Oregon City side of the river, across from Crown Zellerbach's West Linn mill. Publishers Paper belonged to Times Mirror, the publisher of the Los Angeles Times, and the mill later passed to Smurfit; the trusts list it under Publishers Paper and Smurfit, and it is one facility.
Workers exposed. Newsprint production required paper-machine crews, pulp-mill operators, recovery-boiler and lime-kiln operators, refractory workers, insulators, pipefitters, boilermakers, millwrights, and mechanics.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 8 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Owens Corning, Turner & Newall, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1965 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green refractory lined the boilers and kilns, and Babcock & Wilcox boilers carried insulation and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the steam piping, with Eagle-Picher insulating cement on fittings and irregular shapes and Armstrong insulation and floor products in the mill. Turner & Newall's list names the brightener tower, where its Limpet sprayed asbestos was used — amosite in standard Limpet, crocidolite (blue asbestos) in Limpet Blue. The Halliburton signature reflects pumps and compressors from Ingersoll, Dresser, Pacific, and Worthington. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Publishers Paper — Portland
The trusts also list Publishers Paper in Portland, at Southeast 100th Avenue and Foster Road, separately from the company's Oregon City and Newberg mills; we keep the Portland listings as their own site.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, pipefitters, insulators, refractory workers, mechanics, and the contract insulation crews who worked the plant's boilers and steam systems.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 8 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, Turner & Newall, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1965 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green supplied refractory, and Babcock & Wilcox boilers carried insulation and gaskets and packing. Owens Corning's Kaylo line, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), and Fibreboard Pabco pipe and block insulation covered the steam piping, applied by ACandS and Armstrong crews. Turner & Newall Limpet sprayed asbestos was used here — amosite in standard Limpet, crocidolite (blue asbestos) in Limpet Blue. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation (Kaiser) — Portland
Henry J. Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation opened on the Willamette in North Portland in 1941 and built Liberty ships, then Victory ships, through World War II; Kaiser's Swan Island yard upriver built tankers. The trusts list it as Oregon Shipbuilding, Oregon Shipyards, the Oregon Kaiser shipyard, and the Kaiser shipyard in the St. Johns district; it is one facility. Swan Island appears separately in the settlement table above, and Combustion Engineering's list names hundreds of the ships themselves under Portland.
Workers exposed. Wartime shipbuilding put insulators, pipefitters, boilermakers, shipfitters, welders, machinists, electricians, and laborers in the confined engine rooms and machinery spaces where boilers, turbines, and steam lines were installed and insulated.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 6 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1941 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering marine boilers were installed in the ships, with their refractory, insulation, and gaskets and packing. Fibreboard and Owens Corning pipe and block insulation covered the steam and exhaust lines, the high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos) to wartime shipbuilding specifications, and Eagle-Picher insulating cement finished fittings, valves, and turbine casings. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Oregon entries by city
The trusts' lists hold Oregon entries in 113 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 |
|---|---|
| Portland | 1,211 |
| Salem | 40 |
| Albany | 36 |
| St. Helens | 36 |
| Eugene | 34 |
| Springfield | 28 |
| Beaverton | 21 |
| Klamath Falls | 21 |
| Toledo | 16 |
| Bend | 14 |
| Medford | 13 |
| Newberg | 13 |
| Oregon City | 13 |
| West Linn | 13 |
| Corvallis | 12 |
| The Dalles | 11 |
| Wauna | 11 |
| Lebanon | 10 |
| North Bend | 10 |
| Pendleton | 10 |
| Coos Bay | 8 |
| Dillard | 8 |
| Gardiner | 8 |
| Halsey | 8 |
| Prineville | 7 |
| Riddle | 7 |
| Troutdale | 7 |
| Clackamas | 6 |
| Dallas | 6 |
| Forest Grove | 6 |
| Grants Pass | 6 |
| La Grande | 6 |
| Milwaukie | 6 |
| Westfir | 6 |
| Ashland | 5 |
| Gresham | 5 |
| Hillsboro | 5 |
| Junction City | 5 |
| Marshfield | 5 |
| Roseburg | 5 |
| Clatskanie | 4 |
| Hermiston | 4 |
| Lake Oswego | 4 |
| McMinnville | 4 |
| Myrtle Creek | 4 |
| White City | 4 |
| Astoria | 3 |
| Burns | 3 |
| Independence | 3 |
| Millersburg | 3 |
| North Plains | 3 |
| Nyssa | 3 |
| Pilot Rock | 3 |
| Tillamook | 3 |
| Vaughn | 3 |
| Woodburn | 3 |
The trusts' lists also name 57 other Oregon communities.
Some city counts combine the trusts' misspellings and neighborhood names with the city they belong to — Klammeth Falls with Klamath Falls, Pendelton with Pendleton, and North Portland, St. Johns, and Swan Island with Portland.
Search the asbestos trusts' Oregon 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 1,500 entries, as the trusts list them.
Court decisions: 31 asbestos cases from Oregon courts
Worksites named in court opinions
Court decisions in our library name these Oregon workplaces as places where people were exposed to asbestos.
Albina Engine & Machine Works (shipyard)
- Albina Engine & Machine v. Director, Owcp (2010): Shipyard carpenter, 1956
Apex Mobile Home Towing
- Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec, LLC (2018): Part-time mechanic maintaining Ford tow trucks, 1964-1968
Benson High School
- Purcell v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. (1998): Electrician
Binnsmead School
- Dahlke v. Cascade Acoustics, Inc. (2007): Custodian, 1978-1979
Fred's Honda
- Laux v. Akebono Brake Corp. (2021): Motorcycle shop co-owner and mechanic, 1961-2014
GE Portland Apparatus Division Warehouse
- Mason v. Mt. St. Joseph, Inc. (2009): Carpenter, 1968
Olson Brothers garage
- Gorton v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (2018): Garage worker performing brake jobs, 1981-1982
Swan Island Shipyard (Kaiser)
- Coury v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2018): Shipyard worker, 1960 through the 1990s
Tektronix
- Klopman-Baerselman v. Air & Liquid Systems Corporation (2019): Laborer, 1967-1998
Western Foundry
- West v. Allied Signal, Inc. (2005): Night shift foundry worker, 1963-1964
Willamette Iron & Steel Co. shipyard
- Albina Engine & Machine v. Director, Owcp (2010): Shipyard carpenter, 1956
Woodvillage Market & Deli
- Chatfield v. Brenntag North America, Inc. (2023): Purchaser/user of talcum products
Every worksite named in Oregon 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 Oregon 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.
- PortlandZonolite Company, W. R. Grace & Co. · 1963–1973 · 2 products
- St. HelensKaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. · 1963–1974
Asbestos mines
The U.S. Bureau of Mines' and Geological Survey's yearbooks and the asbestos industry's trade journal, Asbestos, report these Oregon mines producing asbestos fiber that was sold or shipped. Each mine's page says who worked it and when, what it produced and which document says so. Miners and millers, their families, and people who lived near these mines may have been exposed.
- Coast Asbestos Co. propertyGrant County · Coast Asbestos Co. · 1961–1962
- Flora Winsenberg propertyRogue River · Mrs. Flora Winsenberg, Flora Winsenberg · 1941–1944
- Oregon Asbestos Co. propertyOregon Asbestos Co. · 1959–1960
- Philip S. Hoyt propertyGrants Pass · Philip S. Hoyt · 1943–1951
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 Oregon 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 Oregon case may work
James is a 72-year-old retired pulp mill worker from Albany. From 1972 to 2004 he worked at the Western Kraft Corporation pulp and paper mill in Albany — primarily in the pulp mill (digesters, washers, screens, and brown stock processing) and the recovery boiler operations. His work involved daily contact with asbestos pipe insulation on steam lines and process piping, A.P. Green refractory in the recovery boiler furnace and the lime kilns, Babcock & Wilcox boiler insulation, ACandS contractor insulation work across the steam plant, Fibreboard Pabco pipe and block insulation, and pump packing on the pumps that moved black liquor and process water through the mill. He retired in 2004 after Weyerhaeuser had acquired Willamette Industries and Western Kraft along with it.
In early 2026, after months of progressive abdominal pain and unexplained weight loss, a CT-guided biopsy at OHSU Hospital in Portland confirmed peritoneal mesothelioma of the sarcomatoid mesothelioma histology. Like many Oregon pulp and paper workers of his generation, James had no idea that decades of routine mill work could cause this disease decades after the exposures ended.
After James retained our firm, we matched his work history to the asbestos bankruptcy trusts that list Western Kraft's Albany mill. The mill's listings support filings against at least ten site-specific trusts — A.P. Green, ACandS, Armstrong World Industries, Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, DII Industries (Halliburton), Eagle-Picher, Fibreboard, Owens Corning, and Turner & Newall. James's work at Western Kraft before 1983 qualified him for the Johns-Manville Settlement Trust as well, independently of the site-specific documentation. We also filed an Oregon Circuit Court civil case in Linn County against the still-solvent companies that made the asbestos products he worked with; he can't sue the mill's owners, who were his employers. James's wife and adult children received free asbestos health screening through our take-home exposure screening program. Recoveries from cases like James'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 Oregon worker is the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute in Portland, where peritoneal HIPEC, lung-sparing surgery options, and the latest immunotherapy combinations are available. 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 matters. How legal recovery funds mesothelioma treatment access →.
For the full doctrinal treatment of Oregon's discovery rule, the asbestos-specific carve-out from the products statute of repose, the comparative fault framework, the premises liability standard, and the damages framework, see the Oregon 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 Oregon 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; every one of the more than 1,500 Oregon entries on the asbestos trusts' lists; several clients with Oregon job sites
- Worksite-specific knowledge — we operate from documented trust coverage at Oregon facilities, not from a generic intake script
- Trust + civil + federal benefits coordinated case by case with the trial team — Johns-Manville, site-specific trusts, civil cases in Oregon Circuit Court, FECA for federal civilian alumni, VA service-connected disability for veterans
- Remote case handling — phone, video, or home visit; no travel to our offices is required
- Free family asbestos health screening for take-home exposure
- No fee unless we recover compensation for your family
Frequently asked questions
Is my Oregon worksite documented?
Probably yes. The asbestos trusts' approved-site lists hold more than 1,500 Oregon entries in 113 communities — pulp and paper mills, sawmills and plywood plants, the Portland shipyards, aluminum and specialty-metals plants, power and gas utilities, state institutions, schools, hospitals, and a wide range of smaller commercial buildings. 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 went bankrupt, the bankruptcy court typically established a settlement trust to pay future asbestos disease claims. Each trust has its own eligibility criteria, evidence requirements, and payment schedule. "Trust coverage at a site" means a trust's own approved-site list connects that manufacturer's products to the worksite, which supports a claim against that manufacturer's trust on behalf of a worker exposed there. Most Oregon workers with significant industrial exposure histories trigger filings against several trusts at once.
Does my loved one qualify for the Johns-Manville trust?
Probably yes, if your loved one had asbestos exposure before 1983 and developed an asbestos-related disease. Johns-Manville does not require proof that its products were at a specific worksite, and for mesothelioma even one day of exposure can qualify. How Johns-Manville eligibility works.
Do I need to know which asbestos products my loved one handled?
No. Most workers do not remember product brand names from decades ago, and they should not be expected to. We reconstruct the product handling history using the trusts' site lists, the trust documentation for each manufacturer that supplied the site, employment and union records, and coworker interviews. The conversation starts with what you remember about the work — what trade your loved one practiced, what equipment they worked on, what other trades were around them — and we handle the rest.
What if my loved one worked at multiple Oregon sites?
Multi-site careers are the norm for Oregon pulp and paper workers, shipyard alumni, and trades workers — and they generally strengthen the case rather than complicate it. Each site adds its own documented trust coverage. A worker who spent time at Western Kraft Albany, Boise Cascade St. Helens, and Publishers Paper Oregon City may trigger filings across the union of all three sites' trust rosters, plus Johns-Manville.
What if my loved one's worksite has closed or been demolished?
Closure or demolition does not affect a claim. The Reynolds Metals smelter at Troutdale closed in 2000; Kaiser's Portland shipyards wound down after World War II; many of the older Pacific Northwest pulp and paper mills have changed corporate ownership several times or shut down entirely. The asbestos trusts pay based on documented exposure, not on whether the worksite still exists. Civil cases proceed against the manufacturers and their successors regardless of facility status.
Can we file a claim if my loved one already passed away?
Yes. Oregon generally gives families three years from when the illness was discovered, or should have been, by the worker or the family, and never more than three years after the death; claims against the companies that made the products may have only two years, so to be safe, count two years from the diagnosis. We handle wrongful-death cases as a routine part of our practice; which trust claims and lawsuits are filed, and in what order, is decided case by case.
What if my loved one worked at a pulp and paper mill?
Most of the Oregon worksites recognized by the most asbestos trusts are pulp and paper mills. Pulp and paper work involved extensive pipe insulation on steam piping, refractory in recovery boilers and lime kilns, gaskets and packing on valves and pumps, and the steam-system applications that defined the industry. Multi-trust documentation is typical for Oregon paper mill workers. Call us with the mill name and we will tell you which trusts list it.
Talk with an Oregon 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.