United States Gypsum Company plant at Greenville, Mississippi

United States Gypsum Company named Greenville, Mississippi, as a place where it made rigid block insulation: in sworn answers to interrogatories in a 1986 lawsuit, Dikun v Armstrong World Industries, the company listed "Rigid Block Insulation" as first produced in 1970 and last produced in 1971, with Greenville, MS as the manufacturing location; its answers in a 1988 case in the Northern District of Oklahoma give the same product, years and place.^1,2

A 1990 EPA notice in the Federal Register, which published what the company reported, gives a different span for its insulation at Greenville: it says K-FAC 19 was "produced 1970 to 1973 in Greenville, MS."³ The same notice describes K-FAC 19 as "rigid block insulation," and an insurance company's 1981 list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, files it as insulation block.^3,4 The sworn answers end in 1971 and the EPA notice in 1973; each is given here as its source states it.^1,3

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.

• K-fac 19 (U.S. Gypsum)³
• Rigid Block Insulation (U.S. Gypsum) · 1970–1971^1,2

Asbestos claims

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What each document says

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Other names

Documents call this plant “Greenville, MS”, “Greenville MS”.

See also

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

References

1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), p. 51.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), p. 44.
3. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 19.
4. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 6.