United States Gypsum Company plant at Boston, Massachusetts

The United States Gypsum Company's sworn answers in lawsuits are the sources for its plant at Boston, Massachusetts: in 1986 and again in 1988, the company listed products whose manufacturing location was "Boston, MA."^1,2 According to those answers, the plant made Oriental Exterior Finish Stucco, first produced in 1932 and last produced in 1944; Oriental Interior Finish Plaster, from 1942 to 1944; and Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application, a basecoat plaster, from 1955 to 1962.¹ In the 1988 answers the name of the interior finish plaster is cut off on the page, but its dates, 1942 to 1944, are the same.²

A 1990 notice listing what U.S. Gypsum reported about its products names Boston among the plants that made Red Top Firecode Plaster (D), "1959 to 1964 at 12 plants," and Red Top Firecode "V" Plaster, "1962 to 1969 at 16 plants," the fireproofing plasters of the Firecode D & V line.³ Those dates describe the products across all the plants, not Boston's output in particular.³

Location

Pictures of products made here

Labels, packages, photographs and catalog pages from our library of products documents say were made at this plant. Each picture has its own page and library number.

• Label: Oriental Exterior Stucco Finish Coat (United States Gypsum Company)Oriental (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20497
• Label: Oriental Exterior (United States Gypsum Company)Oriental (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20495

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) · 1959–1969³
• Oriental (U.S. Gypsum) · 1932–1944^1,2
• Structo-lite (U.S. Gypsum) · 1955–1962^1,2

Asbestos claims

If you or a family member worked at this plant, lived with someone who did, or worked with its products, and later developed mesothelioma or another asbestos disease, a claim may be paid by the United States Gypsum Asbestos PI Settlement Trust. Free case review.

What each document says

Every statement about this plant in the documents, in each document's own words.

Other names

Documents call this plant “Boston, MA”, “Boston MA”.

See also

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

References

1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 46–48.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 40–41.
3. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), pp. 18–19.