United States Gypsum Company plant at Gerlach, Nevada

United States Gypsum Company made Red Top Wood Fiber Plaster - Regular, a basecoat, at Gerlach, Nevada, from 1948 to 1952, according to the company's sworn answers to interrogatories in a 1986 lawsuit, which name Gerlach as its manufacturing location for those years.¹ The company's 1988 answers in another lawsuit list a basecoat made at Gerlach from 1948 to 1952 whose name is cut off on the page.² In another entry the 1986 answers give the plaster, part of U.S. Gypsum's Red Top line, as first produced in 1945 and last produced in 1972; the rows do not say where those other years were made.¹ U.S. Gypsum's answers give Red Top's asbestos content as "9.7% by volume"; that figure describes the product line in general, not what Gerlach made.^1,2

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: RED TOP FIRECODE PLASTER (UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY)Red Top (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 15060
• Label: red top Patching Plaster (United States Gypsum Company)Red Top (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 15087
• Label: RED TOP Gypsum Cement Plaster (United States Gypsum Co.) and 1 other productRed Top (U.S. Gypsum); Imperial (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 15061

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.

• Red Top (U.S. Gypsum) · 1948–1952¹

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.

See also

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

References

1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 47, 54.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 40, 46.