Asbestos Refractory Products: Asbestos Court Decisions

Decisions in our case-law library that involve refractory products: 82 cases, by state. Each line gives the exposure the court described, or else what it decided. For the topic itself, see Asbestos Refractory Products.

North Carolina

• Harris v. Ajax Boiler, Inc. (2014). Insulator helper rehabilitating steam boilers at commercial boiler sites serviced for Cooks Insulation Co., Inc., 1974-1976

Ohio

• Bryant v. General Motors Corp. (3rd Appellate District, 2015). Core room worker doing furnace clean-up at GM Powertrain Division, Defiance facility, 1970s
• Fisher v. Beazer East, Inc. (8th Appellate District, 2013). Apprentice and journeyman boilermaker at Youngstown Sheet & Tube Company, Campbell, 1951-1985
• Gomcsak v. US Steel Corp. (9th Appellate District, 2008). Electrician/motor inspector at U.S. Steel Mill, Lorain, 1942-1984
• State EX rel. Pilkington N. AM. v. Indus. Comm. (10th Appellate District, 2007). Laborer, furnace tender, and crew leader at Libbey-Owens-Ford Rossford plant (Plant 6 and Thermopane Plant 9), 1947-1988

Oregon

• Golik v. CBS Corp. (2020). Wiper in the engine room at SS Philippine Bear (merchant marine ship), 1968-1969

Other federal courts

• Miller v. American President Lines, Ltd. (1993). Seaman: maintenance reefer, oiler, electrician and wiper at defendants' ships, 1944-1951 and 1953-1969
• Dykes v. Raymark Industries, Inc. (1986). Utility mechanic at Union Carbide, mid-1960s-1967

Pennsylvania

• Nelson v. Airco Welders Supply (2013). Pitman, then general laborer at Lukens Steel Plant, Coatesville, 1973-1978
• Howard v. AW Chesterton Co. (2011). The Superior Court reversed the orders granting summary judgment to Chesterton, ACE Hardware, Monsey, Pecora and Union Carbide, vacated the judgment, and remanded the plaintiffs' case for further proceedings.
• Sabol v. Allied Glove Corp. (2011). Graduate student and research assistant at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), laboratory, Pittsburgh, 1961-1965
• Bugosh v. Allen Refractories Company (2007). Employee in the decorating division at Anchor Hocking Glass Plant

Texas

• Georgia-Pacific Corporation v. Bostic (5th District, 2010). Janitorial and mechanical worker (summers) at Knox Glass, 1980-1982
• Ford Motor Company v. Miller (14th District, 2008). Union laborer repairing, tearing out, and rebuilding blast furnaces at Ford Rouge facility, Detroit, 1954-1965
• Alcoa, Inc. v. Behringer (5th District, 2007). Wife of Alcoa potroom worker, laundered his dusty work clothes at Alcoa's Rockdale plant potrooms, 1953-1955 and 1957-1959
• Brown & Root, Inc. v. Shelton (12th District, 2003). Thirty-year employee of the Kelly-Springfield tire plant at Kelly-Springfield tire plant, Tyler, 1969-1971
• North American Refractory Co. v. Easter (13th District, 1999). Engineer-inspector at Gorgas Steam Plant, Alabama Power Company, 1960s and 70s

Utah

• Hipwell v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (2022). Boiler tender at U.S.S. Foss, 1951-1953

Washington

• Casey v. Alcoa Corporation (2020). Utility laborer and pot tender at Alcoa Wenatchee Works, 1973-2005
• Rublee v. Carrier Corp. (2018). Machinist at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 1966-1980
• Rublee v. Carrier Corp. (1st Division, 2016). Machinist at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, 1965 to 1980
• Kalahar v. Alcoa, Inc. (1st Division, 2015). Trainee in potrooms; sheet metal apprentice at Alcoa Wenatchee Works, 1963; 1964-1971
• McCROSSIN v. Imo Industries, Inc. (2015). Naval personnelman performing fire-watch at USS Trenton, Brooklyn Naval Shipyard overhaul, 1975
• McCROSSIN v. Imo Industries, Inc. (2015). Personnelman at USS Trenton, 1974-1976
• Lipson v. ON Marine Services Co. LLC (2014). Worked at a steel mill at steel mill
• Lipson v. ON Marine Services Company, LLC (2013). Employee of Bethlehem Steel at Bethlehem Steel, 1973-1976
• Cashman v. Pacific Scientific Company (1st Division, 2010). Heat-treating helper and later shop foreman at Puget Sound Heat Treating, Tacoma, 1967-1975
• Cashman v. Pacific Scientific Company (1st Division, 2009). Heat-treating helper and later shop foreman at Puget Sound Heat Treating, Tacoma, 1967-1975

West Virginia

• Murphy v. ST. Gobain Ceramics & Plastics, Inc. (2024). Employed in various capacities at a refractory brick plant at refractory brick plant, Buckhannon, 1968-1998
• Lawrentz v. Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood, W Va: Supreme Court of Appeals 2015 (2015). Millwright at Constellium Rolled Products Ravenswood, thirty years

Wisconsin

• Springer v. Nohl Electric Products Corporation (4th District, 2016). 1963-1969
• Zielinski v. AP Green Indus., Inc. (2003). Mason's helper, then mason at Ladish Company, 1947-1951, 1953-1954, 1957-1963