United States Gypsum Company plant at Heath, Montana

United States Gypsum Company named Heath, Montana, as the place where it made Red Top Wood Fiber Plaster - Regular, a basecoat plaster, in its sworn answers to interrogatories in a 1986 lawsuit, Dikun against Armstrong World Industries: "First Produced: 1945 Last Produced: 1972 Manufacturing Locations: Heath, MT."¹ The company's 1988 answers in the Northern District of Oklahoma list a basecoat with the same years and the same location, though the product's name is cut off on the page.² Heath is the only plant either answer names for it.^1,2

The plaster belonged to U.S. Gypsum's Red Top line, which the same answers list as including basecoats and finish plasters made in various years.¹ Elsewhere in both sets of answers U.S. Gypsum gives a Red Top asbestos content of "9.7% by volume"; that figure describes the product, not what Heath made in particular.^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) · 1945–1972¹

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 Montana

References

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