Asbestos Industrial Process Materials: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve industrial process materials: 71 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Asbestos Industrial Process Materials.

Alabama

• Henderson v. MeadWESTVACO Corporation (2009). Part-time and summer worker; unloaded railcars of raw asbestos fibers at Cement Asbestos Products Company (CAPCO) plant, late 1960s; summers of 1971 and 1972

California

• Collantes v. Elementis Chemicals, Inc. (2nd Appellate District, 7th Division, 2020). Janitor at Fluor complex, Irvine, 1992-1995
• Trapp v. CertainTEED Corporation (6th Appellate District, 2018). Lived and worked four to seven miles from the plant at CertainTeed's Santa Clara asbestos-cement pipe plant (airborne emissions), 1963-1997
• Baeza v. Special Electric Company, Inc. (2nd Appellate District, 4th Division, 2016). Child of plant worker (father Ruben Baeza) at Johns-Manville pipe manufacturing plant, Long Beach, 1970-1981
• Lovelace v. Elementis Chemicals, Inc. (3rd Appellate District, 2014). Plumbing and construction work
• Melendrez v. Superior Court OF State OF California (2nd Appellate District, 3rd Division, 2013). The Court of Appeal granted the plaintiffs' writ petition, directing the trial court to vacate its orders deeming SECO's discovery responses verified and to determine who holds SECO's attorney-client privilege, so SECO loses on the verification issue and the matter is remanded.
• Strickland v. Union Carbide Corp. (2nd Appellate District, 7th Division, 2013). Drywall installer, construction worker at late 1960s-1977
• Johnson v. Certainteed Corporation (1st Appellate District, 2nd Division, 2010). Longshoreman at San Francisco piers, 1957-1963
• Stewart v. Union Carbide Corporation (2nd Appellate District, 5th Division, 2010). Plumber or plumber's apprentice at large commercial and residential construction projects, 1968-2007
• Wilson v. Certainteed Corporation (1st Appellate District, 1st Division, 2010). Longshoreman at Ned Lloyd Lines piers 19 and 23, Piers 26 and 30, San Francisco; Encinal Terminals, Alameda, 1959-1994
• Bakkie v. Union Carbide Corporation (1st Appellate District, 2nd Division, 2007). Plastics technician; mixed canal sealant at American Poly-Therm, 1974-1975
• Gutierrez v. Cassiar Mining Corp. (1st Appellate District, 2nd Division, 1998). Worker at cement manufacturing plant at CertainTeed cement manufacturing plant, Santa Clara, 1970-1975

Connecticut

• Dusto v. Rogers Corporation (2023). Extrusion operator, premix operator, blender operator at Rogers Corporation facility in Manchester, 1970-2002

Delaware

• Gibbs v. 84 Lumber Company (2020). Laborer, plumber, and shade tree mechanic at Deforest Company, 1969 to 2019
• Rowland v. Union Carbide Corp. (In re Asbestos Litigation) (2019). Homeowner assisting with home renovation clean-up at home renovation projects, 1972-1976
• Martinez v. EI DuPont De Nemours and Co. (2012). Electrician in the Nylon division at DASRL textile plant, Berazategui, 1963-1980

Florida

• Aubin v. Union Carbide Corporation (2015). Construction supervisor at Desoto Lakes residential development, Sarasota, 1972-1974
• Rich v. Kaiser Gypsum Company, Inc. (4th District, 2012). Homeowner repairing a cracked bedroom wall at Home in Brooklyn, New York, off the Belt Parkway, 1960s-early 1970s
• Union Carbide Corporation v. Aubin (3rd District, 2012). Superintendent at Desoto Lakes model home community, 1972-1974
• Fernandez v. Union Carbide Corp. (3rd District, 2006). Drywall installer at 1966-1973

Georgia

• Union Carbide Corporation v. Fields (2012). Child in family home under construction at Family home, 1973

Illinois

• Quirin v. Lorillard Tobacco Co. (2014). Navy sailor aboard a fleet tanker at USS Tolovana, Long Beach, 1954-1957

Indiana

• TH Agriculture and Nutrition, LLC. v. Akaiwa (2007). Worked in Indiana at 1976-1982

Louisiana

• Alford v. Taylor-Seidenbach, Inc. (2025). Mixed drilling mud on oil rigs at Noble Drilling Corporation oil rigs (including Noble 24), 1973-1985
• Bagwell v. Union Carbide Corp. (2021). Employee of RMC (drilling mud additives)
• Hsieh v. Apache Deepwater, LLC (2021). Worked on the drill floor preparing, maneuvering and withdrawing his equipment from the drill hole at drilling vessels and rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, 1980-1987
• Bagwell v. Union Carbide Corporation (4th Circuit, 2020). Employee of RMC on its drilling rigs at RMC drilling rigs
• Bagwell v. Union Carbide Corporation (4th Circuit, 2019). Floorhand/roughneck, later driller at RMC oil and gas drilling rigs, 1978-1986
• Bordelon v. Atlantic Richfield Co. (2017). Worked offshore at 1967-1972
• Robertson v. Doug Ashy Building Materials, Inc. (1st Circuit, 2014). Sheetrock finisher; drywall finisher and painter in residential construction at early 1960s through 2004
• Watts v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (1st Circuit, 2013). Laborer in cell service unit of chlorine plant at Dow Chemical Company chlorine plant (cell service unit), Plaquemine, 1963-1972
• Robertson v. Doug Ashy Building Materials, Inc. (1st Circuit, 2011). Sheetrock installer at V.P. Pierret Construction Company, 1960-1970
• Alexander v. Thiokol Corp. (3rd Circuit, 2004). Morton employee handling asbestos at Morton facility, 1938-1990

Maryland

• Rockman v. Union Carbide Corp. (2017). Tenant present during home repairs by hired workmen at Baltimore, Maryland apartment, 1973
• Rockman v. Union Carbide Corp. (2017). Law firm partner; exposed during home repair by hired workmen at Baltimore, Maryland apartment, 1973
• Sherin v. John Crane-Houdaille, Inc. (2014). Homeowner visiting new home construction site at Brattle Road home construction site, Pikesville, 1969-1970
• Csr, Limited v. Taylor (2009). Stevedore at Port of Baltimore, 1942-1983
• Taylor v. Csr Limited (2008). Stevedore at Port of Baltimore, 1942-1983

Minnesota

• Backe v. AW Kuettel & Sons, Inc. (2020). Mill worker at Conwed mill, Cloquet, 1963 onward

Mississippi

• Union Carbide Corporation v. Nix (2014). Maintaining the viscosity of drilling mud at WellTech drilling company, 1980-1986

New Jersey

• Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (2022). Worker in the batching area who opened, poured and weighed raw ingredients including asbestos at Bloomfield Plant (adhesive products manufacturing plant), 1954-1994
• Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (2021). Batcher in the mill room at Bloomfield Plant, 1954-1994
• Fowler v. Akzo Nobel Chemicals, Inc. (2017). Mill room worker who scooped, weighed and mixed powdered ingredients including asbestos at Bloomfield chemical plant (adhesive products facility), 1954-1994

New York

• Viglietta v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. (Erie, 2022). Supervisor at Durez chemical plant, North Tonawanda, summers of 1974 and 1976
• Billok v. Union Carbide Corp. (3rd Dept., 2019). Infant at infancy
• Bartolone v. Union Carbide Corp. (In re New York City Asbestos Litigation) (2016). Longshoreman (holeman and deckman) at Pier 39 (39th Street Pier), Brooklyn, 1972-1990s
• Friedman v. AO Smith Corp. (2013). Electrician at New York, 1960s-1970s
• Logan v. AP Moller-Maersk, Inc. (2013). Homeowner doing home renovations at Home at 10 Lincoln Place, New Paltz, New York, 1977-1978
• Macek v. CBS Corporation (2013). Artist working part-time in construction, remodeling residences and other buildings at New York, 1968-1978
• Vega v. Georgia-Pacific, LLC (2013). Child of a worker who repaired building interiors at Bronx, 1975-1977