United States Gypsum Company plant at Oakfield, New York

United States Gypsum Company's plant at Oakfield, New York, made plasters and stucco, according to the company's own sworn answers to interrogatories in a 1986 lawsuit, Dikun v Armstrong World Industries.¹ Those answers name Oakfield as the manufacturing location for Oriental Exterior Finish Stucco, first produced in 1930 and last produced in 1972, and for Oriental Interior Finish Plaster, from 1942 to 1972.¹ They list two plasters for machine application as well: Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application, from 1955 to 1962, and Red Top Cement Plaster for Machine Application, from 1964 to 1966, a product whose name the answers say "changed to Red Top Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application 7/67."¹ The company's 1988 answers in a case in the Northern District of Oklahoma give the same products, years and place, though the name of the first finish plaster is cut off on that page.²

A 1990 EPA notice in the Federal Register, which published what the company reported, places Oakfield among the plants that made the fireproofing plasters grouped as FIRECODE D & V: Red Top Firecode Plaster (D) "1959 to 1964 at 12 plants," and Red Top Firecode "V" Plaster "1962 to 1969 at 16 plants."³ An insurance company's 1981 list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives FIRECODE D & V as a plaster made from 1959 to 1970; those years describe the product in general, not Oakfield's output.⁴

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
• 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.

• Firecode D & V (U.S. Gypsum) · 1959–1969³
• Oriental (U.S. Gypsum) · 1930–1972^1,2
• Red Top (U.S. Gypsum) · 1964–1966^1,2
• 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.

Other names

Documents call this plant “Oakfield, NY”, “Oakfield NY”.

See also

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

References

1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 46–48.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 40–41.
3. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), pp. 18–19.
4. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 5.