United States Gypsum Company plant at Baltimore, Maryland

The one source here for United States Gypsum Company's plant at Baltimore, Maryland, is a 1990 EPA notice that published what USG reported: it names Baltimore among the plants that made Red Top Firecode "V" Plaster, which it says was made "1962 to 1969 at 16 plants."¹ Those years cover the product at all the plants that made it, not Baltimore alone; the notice does not say when Baltimore made it.¹

The notice describes Firecode D & V as "fireproofing plaster."¹ USG's sworn answers in asbestos lawsuits in 1986 and 1988 give other years for the "V" grade, "First Produced 1964" and "Last Produced 1968," and put its asbestos at "Approximately 12% by volume"; that figure describes the product in general, not Baltimore's output.^2,3 An insurance company's list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives the product as made from 1959 to 1970.⁴

Location

Asbestos products made here

The products documents say were made at this plant, with the years a document gives for the product here. Each product's page has what the documents say about it, including its asbestos content.

• Firecode D & V (U.S. Gypsum) · 1962–1969¹

Asbestos claims

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Other names

Documents call this plant “Baltimore, MD”, “Baltimore MD”.

See also

• United States Gypsum Company: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Maryland

References

1. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), pp. 18–19.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 49, 60.
3. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 42, 51.
4. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 5.