United States Gypsum Company plant at Galena Park, Texas

Galena Park, Texas, appears as a United States Gypsum Company plant in a 1990 EPA notice that published what USG reported about its asbestos products: the notice lists Galena Park among the plants that made Red Top Firecode "V" Plaster, "1962 to 1969 at 16 plants," without giving years for Galena Park alone.¹ Firecode V belongs to USG's FIRECODE D & V fireproofing plasters.¹

USG's sworn answers in lawsuits in 1986 and in the Northern District of Oklahoma give different years for the product: Firecode V "First Produced 1964" and "Last Produced 1968," with Firecode D made from 1959 to 1964.^2,3 The same answers put the asbestos in these fireproofing plasters at "approximately 12% by volume" and give the reason for ending Firecode V as "Low Profitability"; the figure describes the product in general, not Galena Park's output in particular.^2,3

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

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.

Other names

Documents call this plant “Galena Park, TX”, “Galena Park TX”.

See also

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

References

1. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), pp. 18–19.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 42, 51–52.
3. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 49, 60.