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Johns-Manville plant at Fort Worth, Texas

In October 1952, Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, carried Johns-Manville's word that it had agreed to buy a building products plant at Fort Worth, Texas, "formerly owned by the American Asphalt Roof Corporation," from The Ruberoid Company.2 The plant, the item said, was "employing about 200 production and office workers" and made "asphalt roofings and roofing felts."2 In sworn answers in a 1990 lawsuit, the fund that answered for Manville Corporation dated J-M's plant at 2222 W. 5th Street, Fort Worth, from 1952 to 1985, and named Asbestos Roofing Felts among its products, described as "asbestos containing."1 The same answers name the plant's doctor, Doctor Tonymon of the Medical and Surgical Clinic in Fort Worth, "1952 to 1985."1

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Location

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

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.

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 Manville Personal Injury Settlement Trust. Free case review.

What each document says

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

Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (1990)

  • Operated: “2222 W. 5th Street, Fort Worth, Texas (1952 to 1985)” (Johns-Manville), p. 181
  • Dust and health: “Fort Worth, TX Plant: 1 physician entry” (Johns-Manville), p. 531
  • Products made: “Asbestos Roofing Felts” (Johns-Manville), p. 201

Asbestos Magazine, 1952, October 1952

  • Owned or run by: “agreement to purchase a building products plant at Forth Worth, Texas, formerly owned by the American Asphalt Roof Corporation” (Johns-Manville Corporation), said by Johns-Manville Corporation, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 502
  • Workforce: “employing about 200 production and office workers” (American Asphalt Roof Corporation / Johns-Manville), said by American Asphalt Roof Corporation / Johns-Manville, as recorded by Asbestos (magazine), p. 502

Other names

Documents call this plant “Fort Worth Plant”, “Fort Worth, TX Plant”, “Fort Worth, Texas”.

See also

References

  1. Manville Fund's Responses to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Moore v. H.K. Porter (February 15, 1990), pp. 18, 20, 53.
  2. Asbestos Magazine, 1952, October 1952 (October 1, 1952), p. 50.

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