United States Gypsum Company plant at Midway, Illinois

United States Gypsum Company named its plant at Midway, Illinois, as the place it made several asbestos-containing products, in sworn answers in a 1986 lawsuit and again in 1988 answers to master interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma.^1,2 Both sets of answers list Joint Compounds as made at Midway from "1920's?" (the question mark is USG's) to 1976, and three textures, USG, Imperial QT and "SHEETROCK" Texture, as first produced in 1964 and last produced in 1976.^1,2 They also name A-B TEX texture paint at Midway but leave its years blank.^1,2

A 1990 EPA notice that published what United States Gypsum reported gives other years for products made at Midway.³ It lists A-B Tex texture paint "1935 to 1974 at 7 plants," Midway among them; Texolite Drywall Surfacer, Aggregated, produced 1961 to 1977; Sheetrock Smoothcoat texture, 1965 to 1974; and two Imperial "QT" spray texture finishes, one produced 1967 to 1972 and the other 1966 to 1976.³ The notice's years cover each product wherever USG made it, not Midway alone, and they differ from the years in USG's sworn answers; both are given here as each source states them.^1,3

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: 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
• Label: Imperial 1/2" Plain Plaster Base (United States Gypsum Company)Imperial (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20390
• Label: Imperial Tape, 12 rolls, 300 lin. ft. per roll (United States Gypsum, Chicago, Illinois)Imperial (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20394
• Label: Imperial Catalyst (United States Gypsum Company)Imperial (U.S. Gypsum)Label or package · ACL Doc 20392

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.

• A.B. Tex (U.S. Gypsum) · 1935–1974^1,2,3
• Imperial (U.S. Gypsum) · 1964–1976^1,2,3
• Joint compound (U.S. Gypsum) · 1920–1976^1,2
• Sheetrock (U.S. Gypsum) · 1964–1976^1,2,3
• Texolite (U.S. Gypsum) · 1961–1977³
• Usg (U.S. Gypsum) · 1964–1976^1,2

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.

Other names

Documents call this plant “Midway, IL”, “Midway IL”.

See also

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

References

1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 49–51.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 42–44.
3. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 19.