United States Gypsum Company plant at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

United States Gypsum Company made asbestos-containing plasters and stucco at Philadelphia, according to the company's own sworn answers in lawsuits in 1986 and 1988.^1,2 The earliest line those answers date is Oriental Exterior Finish Stucco, produced at Philadelphia from 1932 to 1944 and again from 1949 to 1972.^1,2 The 1986 answers add Oriental Interior Finish Plaster, from 1942 to 1944 and from 1949 to 1972; in the 1988 answers the name of that finish plaster is cut off, though the years are the same.^1,2 Both list Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application, a basecoat, from 1955 to 1962.^1,2

A 1990 notice of what United States Gypsum reported names Philadelphia among the plants for its Firecode D & V fireproofing plasters: Red Top Firecode Plaster (D), made "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 the product as a whole, not Philadelphia's output, as made from 1959 to 1970.⁴

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: 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) · 1932–1972^1,2
• 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.

Other names

Documents call this plant “Philadelphia, PA”, “Philadelphia PA”.

See also

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

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.