Vermont's industry ran smaller than its neighbors', but its paper mills, quarries and stone sheds, machine-tool shops, power plants, and railroad yards used asbestos the same way. The trusts' Vermont entries gather around:
- the Connecticut River paper mills — the Gilman Paper Company at Gilman and the mills of Bellows Falls and Wilder;
- Burlington and Winooski — the University of Vermont, Burlington Light and Power's gas plant, and the Winooski woolen mills of the American Woolen Company and Champlain Mills;
- stone country — the Vermont Marble Company at Proctor and Rutland, and the granite quarries of Barre;
- power — the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant at Vernon and the steam plants that served Montpelier;
- the Central Vermont Railway, headquartered at St. Albans, with shops there and at White River Junction; and
- the manufacturing towns — Springfield's machine-tool shops, the Fairbanks scale works at St. Johnsbury, and the plywood plant at North Troy.
Vermont's smaller population means fewer worksites than in the big industrial states, not lighter exposure: paper mill maintenance crews, power plant boilermakers, and railroad shop hands here handled the same asbestos insulation, refractory, gaskets, and packing as their counterparts in Pennsylvania or Ohio.
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 Vermont, those lists hold 129 entries across 49 communities, from 16 asbestos trusts. One plant can appear many times, under different names or on different trusts' lists.
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.
Vermont filing deadlines and trust eligibility, in brief
Vermont gives a diagnosed worker three years to file a lawsuit, counted from when the illness and its cause were known or should have been. Exactly when the clock starts varies, so to be safe, count from the date of diagnosis. An earlier asbestosis or pleural-scarring claim does not bar a later mesothelioma claim in Vermont unless the earlier case already paid for the cancer, but the clock can start once the disease and its cause should have been known, so call us right away. Vermont law also bars most asbestos lawsuits brought more than 20 years after the last asbestos exposure, even if the disease was diagnosed only recently; trust claims follow each trust's own rules, and federal claims such as a railroad worker's case against the railroad follow federal deadlines. A separate deadline applies once a worker has passed away. If your loved one is alive and diagnosed, calling early keeps more options open.
Vermont 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. Vermont's wrongful death framework allows recovery for the surviving spouse, children, and next of kin.
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 Vermont
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. Fifteen other trusts list Vermont worksites. The number of Vermont entries on each trust's list:
- Johns-Manville: no list of its own; every site on the other trusts' lists qualifies
- Babcock & Wilcox: 59 entries (industrial and utility boilers)
- Owens Corning: 27 entries (Kaylo and high-temperature pipe and block insulation)
- A.P. Green: 9 entries (refractory brick, castables and cements)
- Eagle-Picher: 7 entries (insulating cements and pipe covering)
- W.R. Grace: 6 entries (Monokote spray fireproofing and Zonolite)
- Burns & Roe: 4 entries (power-plant engineering and construction)
- Combustion Engineering: 4 entries (boilers and refractory)
- DII Industries (Halliburton): 3 entries (pumps, compressors and oilfield equipment)
- Armstrong World Industries: 2 entries (insulation contracting and floor products)
- GAF: 2 entries (roofing and building products)
- Pittsburgh Corning: 2 entries (Unibestos pipe insulation)
- ASARCO: 1 entry (asbestos mining and smelting)
- DII Industries (Harbison-Walker): 1 entry (refractory brick and castables)
- Owens-Illinois: 1 entry (Kaylo pipe and block insulation)
- Plibrico: 1 entry (refractory plastics and castables)
Trust coverage at this depth means most Vermont 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.
Vermont 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.
BurlingtonVermont's largest city: the University of Vermont and the Mary Fletcher Hospital, its teaching hospital, Burlington Light and Power's gas plant, and General Electric's manufacturing plant.
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.
- Mary Fletcher Hospital
- University of Vermont
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 — Manufacturing Plant
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.
- Burlington Light and Power Company — Gas Plant
WinooskiWinooski grew around the woolen mills at the falls of the Winooski River, the American Woolen Company and Champlain Mills; the trusts also list Burlington Light and Power's Winooski plant and buildings at nearby Fort Ethan Allen.
Textile and garment plants. Textile and garment plants ran steam for dryers, presses, and heating, and their boiler rooms and maintenance shops carried the same asbestos insulation, gaskets, and packing as any industrial plant.
- American Woolen Company, Incorporated
- Champlain Mills
Military installations. Military bases ran boiler plants, steam distribution systems, and aircraft and vehicle maintenance shops, and built and renovated for decades with asbestos-containing materials.
- Fort Ethan Allen
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.
- Burlington Light and Power Company — Winooski Plant
Bellows FallsBellows Falls, on the Connecticut River, was a paper-mill town: the trusts list the Fall Mountain mill, International Paper, and White Mountain Paper.
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.
- Fall Mountain Mill
- International Paper Company
- White Mountain Paper Company
BarreBarre is the center of Vermont's granite industry; the trusts list its quarries and the Manufacturers Quarrying Company, there and at Websterville.
Mines and ore mills. Mines and ore mills ran powerhouses, boilers, compressors, and steam lines insulated and sealed with asbestos, and their mills and smelters used asbestos refractory.
- Granite Quarry
- Manufacturers Quarrying Company
MontpelierThe state capital's entries are mostly its steam and power plants on the Winooski River, with the National Life Insurance Company's offices.
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.
- Consolidated Lighting Company — Steam Plant
- Green Mountain Power Corporation — Winooski River Steam Plant
RutlandRutland's entries run from the Vermont Marble Company and the Howe Scale works to the city's hospitals and offices.
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.
- Howe Scale Company
Mines and ore mills. Mines and ore mills ran powerhouses, boilers, compressors, and steam lines insulated and sealed with asbestos, and their mills and smelters used asbestos refractory.
- Vermont Marble Company
GilmanGilman, a village on the Connecticut River in the Northeast Kingdom, was built around its paper mill.
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.
- Gilman Paper Company
North TroyNorth Troy, near the Canadian border, is listed for its plywood plant, which the trusts name as Owens-Illinois and as Roddis Plywood.
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.
- Owens-Illinois Plywood Company
ProctorProctor is the Vermont Marble Company's home town; the company's quarries and mills made it one of the largest marble producers in the country.
Mines and ore mills. Mines and ore mills ran powerhouses, boilers, compressors, and steam lines insulated and sealed with asbestos, and their mills and smelters used asbestos refractory.
- Vermont Marble Company
SpringfieldSpringfield was a center of the machine-tool industry; the trusts list the Jones & Lamson Machine Company.
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.
- Jones and Lamson Mach Company
St. AlbansSt. Albans was the Central Vermont Railway's headquarters and shop town.
Railroads. Steam locomotives were insulated with asbestos, and railroad shops relined boilers and replaced brake shoes and gaskets on equipment that carried asbestos for decades after diesels arrived.
- Central Vermont Railway
St. JohnsburySt. Johnsbury grew around the Fairbanks scale works, which the trusts list as E. & T. Fairbanks and as Fairbanks Morse.
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.
- E. & T. Fairbanks (Fairbanks Morse) scale works
VernonVernon is home to the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant on the Connecticut River, which ran from 1972 until 2014.
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.
- Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
Other Vermont communitiesOne worksite each in 5 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.
- IBM — Essex Junction
- International Paper Company — Wilder
Tire and synthetic-rubber plants. Synthetic-rubber and tire plants ran boilers, steam lines, and steam-heated presses and curing equipment insulated and sealed with asbestos.
- Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company — Windsor
Railroads. Steam locomotives were insulated with asbestos, and railroad shops relined boilers and replaced brake shoes and gaskets on equipment that carried asbestos for decades after diesels arrived.
- Central Vermont Railway, Incorporated — White River Junction
Mines and ore mills. Mines and ore mills ran powerhouses, boilers, compressors, and steam lines insulated and sealed with asbestos, and their mills and smelters used asbestos refractory.
- Eastern Talc Company — East Granville
Mesothelioma settlement values at Vermont's most-documented worksites
These worksites appear on the approved-site lists of at least two 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.
White Mountain Paper Company
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| A.P. Green | $165,694 | 6.0% | $9,941.64 |
| Eagle-Picher | No fixed schedule | — | Set case by case |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
University of Vermont
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Gilman Paper Company
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babcock & Wilcox | $90,000 – $400,000 | 4.3% | $3,870 – $17,200 |
| Owens Corning | $215,000 – $650,000 | 4.3% | $9,245 – $27,950 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Owens-Illinois Plywood Company
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Central Vermont Railway
| 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 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
| Trust | Mesothelioma value | Payment % | Payment at that % |
|---|---|---|---|
| DII Industries (Halliburton) | $60,718.95 – $256,000 | 60% | $36,431.37 – $153,600 |
| Pittsburgh Corning | $175,000 – $500,000 | 19% | $33,250 – $95,000 |
| Johns-Manville | $350,000 – $750,000 | 5.6% | $19,600 – $42,000 |
A closer look at major Vermont worksites
The worksites below are recognized by the most asbestos trusts in Vermont — three, counting Johns-Manville — along with the Vermont Marble Company, the state's best-known industrial name. 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.
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant — Vernon
Vermont Yankee, the state's only nuclear power plant, stood on the Connecticut River at Vernon. It began commercial operation in 1972 and shut down in 2014. The trusts list it as Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant and as Vermont Yankee Power Plant; it is one facility.
Workers exposed. The construction crews who built the plant — pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, millwrights, and electricians — and then the maintenance crews and outage contractors who worked on its turbine, feedwater, and steam systems.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 3 asbestos trusts — DII Industries (Halliburton), Pittsburgh Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1966 through 1982; Pittsburgh Corning lists the plant from 1970, during construction.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Pittsburgh Corning Unibestos pipe insulation, an amosite (brown asbestos) product made for high-temperature steam service, went onto the plant's piping during construction. DII Industries is the former Dresser Industries, and its Halliburton listing reflects Dresser pumps, compressors, and valves, which needed gaskets and packing at every flange and shaft seal. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
University of Vermont — Burlington
The University of Vermont in Burlington, founded in 1791, is the state's largest university. The trusts list the university itself and its Medical Building.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers and steamfitters in the campus heating plant, insulators, plumbers, electricians, the construction trades who built and renovated campus buildings, and university maintenance crews.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 3 asbestos trusts — Owens Corning, Plibrico, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1940 through 1982; Plibrico lists the university from 1940, and Owens Corning lists the Medical Building.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Plibrico plastic refractory and castables lined the university's boilers, the refractory that boilermakers and bricklayers cut, mixed, and tore out at every rebuild. Owens Corning Kaylo pipe and block insulation, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the steam and hot-water lines of the Medical Building. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Gilman Paper Company — Gilman
The Gilman Paper Company mill stood on the Connecticut River at Gilman, a village in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom built around it, and ran for most of the twentieth century.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers and pipefitters on the mill's boilers and process steam systems, insulators covering high-temperature pipe runs and boiler walls, millwrights and mechanics maintaining paper machines and rotating equipment, and electricians and laborers throughout the plant.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 3 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Owens Corning, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1921 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox boilers sat at the heart of the mill: boiler exteriors carried pipe and block insulation, furnaces carried refractory brick and refractory cement, and access doors and steam connections carried gaskets and packing. Owens Corning Kaylo pipe and block insulation, its high-temperature grades made with amosite (brown asbestos), covered the steam lines that ran to the paper machines, and maintenance meant tearing out and replacing it on a recurring basis. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Owens-Illinois Plywood Company — North Troy
The plywood plant at North Troy, near the Canadian border, appears on the trusts' lists as Owens-Illinois, Inc. and Owens Illinois Plywood Company, under both North Troy and Troy, the town that includes the village. A separate entry names Roddis Plywood Corporation at North Troy.
Workers exposed. Production workers, boiler operators, maintenance mechanics, insulators, pipefitters, and electricians supporting the plant's steam-heated presses and dryers.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 3 asbestos trusts — Owens Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1958 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Owens-Illinois made Kaylo pipe and block insulation until 1958, when it sold the line to Owens Corning, and the two trusts' listings here meet in that year: Owens-Illinois lists the plant in 1958 and Owens Corning from 1958 on. Kaylo's high-temperature grades were made with amosite (brown asbestos), and it covered the steam lines feeding the plant's presses and dryers. Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories, including the gaskets and packing on the steam system.
Central Vermont Railway — St. Albans
St. Albans was the headquarters of the Central Vermont Railway and home to its main shops and yard. The trusts list the railway there as Central Vermont Railway, Incorporated and Central Vermont Railways; Babcock & Wilcox also lists it at White River Junction.
Workers exposed. Railroad shop workers, boilermakers and machinists on locomotive repair, pipefitters and insulators on locomotive boilers and the shops' steam systems, brake and friction workers, and the crews who ran the shop power plant.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 3 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox, Combustion Engineering, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1935 through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox and Combustion Engineering boilers supplied the shops' steam, with pipe and block insulation on the boilers and steam lines, refractory in the furnaces, and gaskets and packing at the access doors and steam connections. The high-temperature insulation was often made with amosite (brown asbestos). Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories, and through the brake shoes and other friction materials the shops ground and fitted.
White Mountain Paper Company — Bellows Falls
Bellows Falls, on the Connecticut River, was one of Vermont's paper-mill towns. The trusts list the White Mountain Paper Company there under two spellings, White Mountain Paper and White Mt Paper Company.
Workers exposed. Boilermakers, bricklayers and refractory workers, pipefitters, insulators, millwrights, and paper-machine maintenance crews.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 3 asbestos trusts — A.P. Green, Eagle-Picher, and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1965; Eagle-Picher's listing gives no years.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. A.P. Green refractory brick and refractory cement lined the mill's boilers, and Eagle-Picher insulating cement and pipe covering went onto its boilers and steam lines, mixed by hand and troweled on. The high-temperature pipe covering was often made with amosite (brown asbestos). Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories, including the gaskets and packing on the steam system.
Vermont Marble Company — Proctor
The Vermont Marble Company, based at Proctor, was for generations one of the largest marble producers in the country, and Proctor grew up as its company town. Vermont marble went into the U.S. Supreme Court Building and the Jefferson Memorial. The trusts list the company at Proctor and, separately, at Rutland.
Workers exposed. Quarry workers, marble cutters and finishers, boilermakers and pipefitters on the boiler and steam systems that supported the mills, mechanics and millwrights maintaining cutting and polishing equipment, and laborers across the company's Rutland County operations.
Trust documentation: recognized by at least 2 asbestos trusts — Babcock & Wilcox and Johns-Manville. The trusts' lists document their products here from 1945 through 1982, and Babcock & Wilcox lists the company's Rutland operation through 1982.
Products, trust signatures, and asbestos types. Babcock & Wilcox boilers supplied steam to the company's mills, with pipe and block insulation on the boilers and steam piping, refractory in the furnaces, and gaskets and packing at the access doors and steam connections. The high-temperature insulation was often made with amosite (brown asbestos). Chrysotile (white asbestos) ran through most of these product categories.
Vermont entries by city
The trusts' lists hold Vermont entries in 49 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 |
|---|---|
| Burlington | 13 |
| Rutland | 11 |
| Montpelier | 8 |
| Bellows Falls | 7 |
| St. Albans | 7 |
| Windsor | 7 |
| Bennington | 6 |
| Winooski | 6 |
| Barre | 4 |
| North Troy | 4 |
| Brattleboro | 3 |
| Essex Junction | 3 |
| Gilman | 3 |
| Vergennes | 3 |
| Waterbury | 3 |
| White River Junction | 3 |
Entries are also listed in Arlington, Berlin, Castleton, Colchester, East Granville, Enosburg, Fitzdale, Florence, Franklin, Georgia, Hardwick, Hinesburg, Middlebury, Morrisville, Newport, North Pownal, Pittsfield, Poultney, Proctor, Quechee, Saxtons River, South Burlington, South Shaftsbury, Springfield, Springvale, St. Johnsbury, Troy, Vernon, Wallingford, Websterville, Wells River, West Rutland and Wilder.
Search the asbestos trusts' Vermont 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.
129 entries, as the trusts list them.
Court decisions: 1 asbestos case from Vermont courts
Worksites named in court opinions
Court decisions in our library name these Vermont workplaces as places where people were exposed to asbestos.
Vermont Standard printing shop
- In re Asbestos Litigation (2020): Linotype operator and maintenance worker in a newspaper printing shop, 1964-1988
Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
- Carpin v. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corporation (2024): Pipefitter (her husband), 1971-1972
Every worksite named in Vermont 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 Vermont 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.
- Hyde ParkRuberoid, GAF Corporation · 1936–1975 · 2 products
- NorthfieldRussell Manufacturing Company · from 1951
Asbestos mines
The U.S. Bureau of Mines' and Geological Survey's yearbooks and the asbestos industry's trade journal, Asbestos, report these Vermont 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.
- Belvidere Mountain quarryHyde Park / Eden · Vermont Asbestos Corporation, Vermont Asbestos Corporation of America, Vermont Production Co., Inc. (Ruberoid Co.) and others · 1899–1991
- Upper Missisquoi Valley asbestos depositsupper Missisquoi Valley
Don't see your worksite?
Your worksite may be documented even if it doesn't appear on this page. If your loved one worked at a Vermont facility not listed — a granite shed in Barre, a machine shop in Springfield, a creamery, a school, or any other Vermont industrial site — 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, take-home exposure from a family member's work clothes, and exposures across multiple sites are all part of the case-building process.
Call 833-4-ASBESTOS for a free case review.
How a Vermont case may work
Vincent is a 76-year-old retired marble industry worker from Proctor. From 1968 through 2000 — 32 years — he worked at the Vermont Marble Company at Rutland, primarily in the marble cutting and finishing crews, with rotation into the in-plant boiler house during equipment overhaul cycles. His career took him across the Rutland, West Rutland, and Proctor operations, including work on marble that ended up in major American architectural projects. The boiler house work meant routine contact with Babcock & Wilcox boiler insulation, gasket and packing replacement on steam piping access points, and the asbestos-containing belts and friction materials used on the marble cutting and polishing equipment on the finishing floor. Vincent had no significant health complaints until late 2025, when he developed persistent abdominal pain and progressive weight loss. Imaging at Rutland Regional Medical Center and a peritoneal biopsy in February 2026 confirmed peritoneal mesothelioma of the sarcomatoid mesothelioma variety.
For Vincent's family, the case structure works as follows. The Vermont Marble Company is on the Babcock & Wilcox trust's list at both Proctor and Rutland, which supports a Babcock & Wilcox trust filing. Vincent's pre-1983 exposure qualifies him for the universal Johns-Manville Settlement Trust, independent of the Vermont Marble documentation — a Vermont Marble career that began in 1968 sits squarely within the Johns-Manville eligibility window. A career-spanning exposure reconstruction may also surface additional trust pathways through brake and friction materials used in the finishing equipment, and through related Rutland County marble industry employers. A Vermont lawsuit against the manufacturers and product suppliers is unlikely: Vermont law bars most asbestos lawsuits brought more than 20 years after the last exposure, and Vincent's ended in 2000, so his family's recovery is likely to come through the trusts unless a later exposure or another state's law applies. Our representation includes free asbestos health screening for family members who may have been exposed at home through Vincent's work clothes across the 32 years he worked at the plant. The screening is a chest X-ray read by a B-reader, with a CT scan if needed; it looks for asbestos-related changes in the lungs and isn't a diagnosis or a reliable way to find mesothelioma early. Recoveries from cases like Vincent's routinely fund what insurance does not cover — travel to academic cancer centers, lodging during extended treatment, out-of-pocket medication costs, and home help. The nearest NCI-designated cancer center for a Vermont worker is Dartmouth Cancer Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, just across the Connecticut River from White River Junction, where advanced treatments for peritoneal mesothelioma including HIPEC, lung-sparing surgery for pleural cases, 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 Vermont's discovery rule, comparative fault framework, premises liability standard, and damages framework, see the Vermont 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 Vermont 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 for asbestos families; 200,000+ verified exposure sites nationally; all 129 Vermont entries on the asbestos trusts' lists
- Worksite-specific knowledge — we operate from documented trust coverage at named Vermont facilities rather than from generic intake scripts
- Trust filings, civil cases, and federal benefits (VA service-connected disability for Vermont National Guard veterans, FECA for federal civilian workers, SSDI for eligible claimants) coordinated case by case with the trial team
- Remote case handling — phone, video, and home visits across Vermont; no travel to our offices required
- Free asbestos health screening for family members of every client
- No fee unless we recover compensation for your family
Frequently asked questions
Is my Vermont worksite documented?
Probably yes. The asbestos trusts' approved-site lists hold 129 Vermont entries in 49 communities, including paper mills, marble and granite works, power plants, railroad shops, factories, hospitals, and schools. 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 employer name and the town — we'll check on the phone.
What does "trust coverage" mean for my case?
Asbestos manufacturers that went into bankruptcy set up settlement trusts to pay claims from workers exposed to their products. Each trust pays on the basis of documented exposure to that manufacturer's products at qualifying worksites. When a Vermont site is on the Babcock & Wilcox and Owens Corning trusts' lists, those trusts have acknowledged that their products were used at the site — which means workers there can file trust claims against those manufacturers' trusts. Most Vermont workers with significant industrial careers will trigger multiple trust filings simultaneously.
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. We reconstruct the product history from our database, the trust documentation for each manufacturer present at the worksite, employment and union records, and coworker interviews. Most family members do not come to the first call with product names — that is normal and the case proceeds without that information from the family.
What if my loved one worked at multiple Vermont sites?
That is common and it usually strengthens the case rather than complicating it. Many Vermont workers — particularly in the marble industry, the paper industry, and the railroad — moved between related employers and locations across a career. We reconstruct the full career arc and identify trust coverage at each site.
What if my loved one's worksite has closed or been demolished?
It does not affect the case. Trust claims are based on the historical exposure during operations, not the current status of the facility. Vermont Yankee shut down in 2014, and the Gilman Paper Company, the Winooski woolen mills, much of the historic Central Vermont Railway shop infrastructure, and many other Vermont sites on the trusts' lists are closed or substantially changed today — the trust documentation is unaffected.
Can we file a claim if my loved one already passed away?
Yes. Vermont's wrongful death framework allows recovery for the surviving spouse, children, and next of kin. The wrongful death case must be filed within two years after the death was discovered, which is usually the date of death, and Vermont's 20-year limit on asbestos lawsuits applies to it too, so calling promptly after a loss matters. We handle wrongful death cases routinely.
Are Vermont National Guard veterans covered?
Often. Members of the Vermont Air National Guard (158th Fighter Wing at Burlington Air Guard Station) and the Vermont Army National Guard (Camp Ethan Allen at Jericho) who were exposed during active duty, or during full-time Guard duty that counts as active duty for training, may pursue VA service-connected disability benefits for asbestos-related disease in addition to trust filings and any civil claim. Federal civilian employees at Vermont federal facilities — the Air Guard Station, Camp Ethan Allen, the VA Medical Center at White River Junction, federal courthouses, and other installations — are covered by FECA. A trust or civil recovery doesn't reduce VA disability, but FECA must be repaid from a recovery against the companies, and a worker eligible for both VA and FECA for the same illness generally has to choose.
Talk with a Vermont asbestos lawyer
Whether your family is dealing with a new diagnosis, a very sick loved one, or a death from mesothelioma, lung cancer, or asbestosis, we are ready to help. Your loved one's Vermont 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.