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United States Gypsum Company plant at Fort Dodge, Iowa

United States Gypsum Company named its plant at Fort Dodge, Iowa, as the place it made a range of asbestos-containing plasters, in sworn answers in a 1986 lawsuit.1 The 1986 answers list three acoustical plasters: Sabinite, first produced in 1930 and last produced in "*1964" (the asterisk is USG's), and Audicote and Hi-Lite, each from 1955 to 1972.1 They list Red Top Trowel Finish from 1930 to 1935 and again from 1950 to 1951, Oriental Interior Finish Plaster from 1942 to 1972, and Oriental Exterior Finish Stucco from 1930 to 1973.1 Among basecoats, they list Red Top Wood Fiber Plaster - Regular from 1945 to 1963 and Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application from 1955 to 1962 and from 1963 to 1972.1 USG's 1988 answers to master interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma give the same types and years for Fort Dodge, though most product names are cut off on the copy.2

A 1990 EPA notice that published what United States Gypsum reported also names Fort Dodge among the plants for Firecode D & V, which USG called a fireproofing plaster: Red Top Firecode Plaster (D), "1959 to 1964 at 12 plants," and Red Top Firecode "V" Plaster, "1962 to 1969 at 16 plants."3 Those years cover each product at all the plants that made it, not Fort Dodge alone.3

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Location

Fort Dodge, Iowa, the city named in the documents. The dot marks the city, not the plant's address.

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Asbestos products made here

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Asbestos claims

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What each document says

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United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (1986)

  • Asbestos products made: “Sabinite 1930–*1964; Audicote 1955–1972; Hi-Lite 1955–1972; Red Top Trowel Finish 1930–1935, 1950–1951; Oriental Interior Finish Plaster 1942–1972; Red Top Wood Fiber Plaster - Regular 1945–1963; Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application 1955–1962, 1963–1972; Oriental Exterior Finish Stucco 1930–1973” (United States Gypsum Company), p. 461

United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma

  • Asbestos products made: “[name cut off] Acoustical Plaster 1930–*1964, 1955–1972, 1955–1972; [name cut off] Finish Plaster 1930–1935, 1950–1951, 1942–1972; [name cut off] Basecoat 1945–1963; Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application 1955–1962, 1963–1972; Oriental Exterior Finish Stucco 1930–1973” (United States Gypsum Company), p. 402

Other names

Documents call this plant “Fort Dodge, IA”, “Fort Dodge IA”.

See also

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.

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