United States Gypsum Company plant at Shoals, Indiana

In sworn answers in a 1986 lawsuit, and again in 1988 answers in the Northern District of Oklahoma, United States Gypsum Company listed Shoals, Indiana, as the manufacturing location of Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application, a basecoat plaster, "First Produced: 1957 Last Produced: 1962."^1,2 The same answers list Thermalux, an electric heating product, as "Shoals, IN (Assembled)," first produced in 1961 and last produced in 1965.^1,2 For Structo-Lite as a whole, wherever it was made, the company's answers give a first year of 1955 and a last year of 1972, and an insurance company's printout compiled from defendants' answers in lawsuits lists it as made from 1955 to 1970; those dates describe the product in general, not Shoals.^2,3

Location

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.

• Structo-lite (U.S. Gypsum) · 1957–1962^1,2
• Thermalux (U.S. Gypsum) · 1961–1965^1,2

Asbestos claims

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What each document says

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

Other names

Documents call this plant “Shoals, IN”, “Shoals, IN (Assembled)”.

See also

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

References

1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 48, 51.
2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 41, 44.
3. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 8.