United States Gypsum Company plant at Jacksonville, Florida

United States Gypsum Company's plant at Jacksonville, Florida, is known here from the company's own sworn answers in two lawsuits, one in 1986 and one in the Northern District of Oklahoma in 1988, which give the same list of asbestos-containing products made there and the years for each.^1,2 The earliest is joint compound: USG gave its first year at Jacksonville as "1920's?", with the question mark its own, and its last as 1976.^1,2

The answers list two Oriental products at Jacksonville, Oriental Interior Finish Plaster from 1949 to 1950 and Oriental Exterior Finish Stucco from 1949 to 1972, and a Structo-Lite basecoat, "Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application," from 1955 to 1962.^1,2 USG's answers put the asbestos in its joint compounds at "approximately 3 - 5% by volume," a figure for the product in general, not Jacksonville's output in particular.¹ As its reason for stopping joint compounds, USG gave the "Cost of Compliance with proposed lower OSHA standards within the plant."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.

• Product photograph: Joint Compound (partially legible; the printed words appear to be '...COMPOUND' with a partly obscured word above it) (USG)Joint compound (U.S. Gypsum)Product photograph · ACL Doc 15160
• Label: Oriental Exterior Stucco Finish Coat (United States Gypsum Company)Oriental (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20497
• Label: Oriental Exterior (United States Gypsum Company)Oriental (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20495

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.

• Joint compound (U.S. Gypsum) · 1920–1976^1,2
• Oriental (U.S. Gypsum) · 1949–1972^1,2
• Structo-lite (U.S. Gypsum) · 1955–1962^1,2

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 Florida

References

1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 46–48, 51, 60.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 40–41, 44, 52.