Philip Carey and later owners plant at Lockland, Ohio

Lockland, Ohio, outside Cincinnati, was home to an insulation plant run by The Philip Carey Manufacturing Company, which by 1970 was writing as Panacon Corporation, "formerly Philip Carey Corporation," and for which The Celotex Corporation later answered as successor to those companies.^1,2,6 In sworn answers in a 1984 lawsuit, Celotex dated the plant "1906 through present" and described its work as "high and low temperature insulation products."¹ The earliest thing the trade press says about it comes from Asbestos, the industry's trade journal, which reported in May 1931 that the company's "high pressure power plant" at Lockland "was put in service at midnight, Sunday, May 3rd, 1931."² In December 1945 the company's own report in the journal said its plans included "the erection of new plants at Lockland, Perth Amboy and Plymouth Meeting"; the rows do not say what came of that plan at Lockland.⁷

What the plant made

Philip Carey Corporation, in statements of December 1969 and April 1970, named Lockland as the plant for six of its insulation products.^4,5 Three were paper pipe coverings: AIRCEL, CAREYCEL and EXCEL, each given the years "1906-1960" and described as asbestos paper and sodium silicate.⁵ In April 1970 the company also wrote, "We discontinued the manufacture of asbestos paper insulation products approximately eight years ago."⁵ Celotex, in a 1990 EPA notice that published what the company reported, gave a different span, "produced 1906 to the early 1970's," and said these paper pipe products held "approximately 60% asbestos."⁸ An insurance company's list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives other figures: 60 percent for Aircel, 75-80 for Careycel and 80 for Excel.⁹ All of these figures describe the products in general, not Lockland's output in particular.^8,9

Two mineral wool products came from Lockland as well.⁵ Philip Carey dated MW-50 "1940-1967" and described it as "Mineral Wool fiber, asbestos fiber and Bentonite clay."⁵ It dated MW 1 "1950-1967" and described it as "Mineral wool fiber, Portland cement and Bentonite clay," naming no asbestos; the insurance company's list gives MW 1 as 5 percent asbestos and MW-50 as 10.^5,9

CAREYTEMP, a high-temperature pipe and block insulation, was made at Lockland from "1958-Sept. 1969," according to Philip Carey.^4,10 The company described it as "Expanded Perlite, Bentonite clay, chopped glass roving and asbestos fiber," and Panacon later put its asbestos at "approximately 6%."^5,11 The Navy's 1964 list of qualified products gives the plant's address as Lockland Station, Cincinnati.³ The sources date the end of asbestos in Careytemp differently: Philip Carey wrote that "since September of 1969, asbestos fiber has been eliminated from regular Careytemp and fiberglass has been substituted," Panacon gave the date as "September 23, 1969," and another Philip Carey letter said Careytemp 1500, made without asbestos, was "manufactured since October 19, 1969."^5,11,12

Dust surveys and doctors

Celotex's 1984 answers say that its predecessors hired Lee B. Fosdick in December 1962 "to perform an industrial hygiene survey of dust levels at the Lockland, Ohio plant," and list industrial hygienists who took dust counts there from 1967 to 1978.¹ Panacon also wrote in 1970 of dust counts made at the Lockland plant in 1967.⁶ The same Celotex answers give two dates for one engagement: in one place they say Doctor Thomas Mancuso was retained "in 1962" for one year "to review the Occupational Health Program" at Lockland, and in another, "for a period of one year in 1963."¹

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: MW-50 INSULATING CEMENTMw-50 (Philip Carey)Product photograph · ACL Doc 15168
• Packaging: Carey pipe covering cartons and chrysotile bag (Carey)Super-light (Philip Carey); Pipe insulation (Philip Carey); Careytemp (Philip Carey); Chrysotile asbestos fiber (Carey Canadian Mines)Label or package · ACL Doc 20723

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.

• Aircel (Philip Carey) · 1906–1960⁵
• Careycel (Philip Carey)^4,5
• Careytemp (Philip Carey) · 1958–1969^3,4,5,6
• Excel (Philip Carey)⁵
• MW 1 (Philip Carey)⁵
• Mw-50 (Philip Carey)⁵

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 Celotex Asbestos Settlement Trust. Free case review.

What each document says

Every statement about this plant in the documents, in each document's own words.

Other names

Documents call this plant “Lockland, Ohio”, “Lockland plant”, “Lockland Station Cincinnati 15, Ohio”, “Locklan, Ohio”, “Lockland Station, Cincinnati, Ohio”, “Lockland”.

See also

• Philip Carey: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• The Celotex Corporation: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Asbestos exposure sites in Ohio

References

1. Celotex's Answers to Plaintiff's Master Interrogatories in Laird v. Celotex (August 17, 1984), pp. 11, 13–14.
2. Asbestos Magazine, 1931, May 1931 (May 1, 1931), p. 10.
3. Military Qualified Products List (1951–1995) (June 16, 1964), p. 84.
4. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories (December 23, 1969), pp. 1–2.
5. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (April 2, 1970), pp. 1–2, 15.
6. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiffs' joint interrogatories with exhibits (November 4, 1970), p. 5.
7. Asbestos Magazine, 1945, December 1945 (December 1, 1945), p. 40.
8. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 5.
9. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), pp. 3–4, 6.
10. Asbestos Magazine, 1959, August 1959 (August 1, 1959), p. 56.
11. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiffs' joint interrogatories (September 21, 1970), p. 2.
12. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories (November 22, 1971), p. 2.