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United States Gypsum Company plant at South Gate, California

United States Gypsum Company's plant at South Gate, California, made wall and ceiling textures, texture paints and plaster, according to the company's sworn answers to interrogatories in a 1986 lawsuit, Dikun v Armstrong World Industries.2 The earliest product those answers date there is USG Textone, a texture paint first produced in 1928 and last produced in 1974.2 They go on to list Pac-Tex, from 1943 to 1963; Red Top Patching Plaster, from 1944 to 1947; Textone, from 1944 to 1975; Texolite, from 1961 to 1967; and USG, Imperial QT and "SHEETROCK" Texture, each from 1964 to 1976.2 The same answers name South Gate for A-B TEX texture paint, with the years left blank, and for roofing, with the note "Possible other dates."2

The company's 1988 answers in a case in the Northern District of Oklahoma repeat that list, with the name of the patching plaster cut off on the page, and add joint compounds, first produced in the "1920s?" and last produced in 1976.1

A 1990 EPA notice in the Federal Register, which published what the company reported, gives its own years for products made at South Gate, and they do not always match the sworn answers: Textone Texture Finish "1928 to 1977 at 7 plants"; A.B. Tex Texture Paint "1935 to 1974 at 7 plants"; Texolite Block Filler from 1958 "to an unknown date" and Texolite Drywall Surfacer, Aggregated, from 1961 to 1977; Imperial "QT" (Spray) Texture Finish-Regular from 1964 to 1976; and a Sheetrock Radiant Heat Simulated Acoustical Texture ceiling texture from 1970 to 1972.3

An insurance company's 1981 list, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives other years again for these products in general, not for South Gate: Textone, Imperial and A.B. Tex as spray textures made from 1944 to 1975, Texolite as a joint compound made from 1920 to 1975, and the Sheetrock product as a radiant heat filler made from 1971 to 1972.4 Each source's years are given here as it states them.2,3,4

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Location

South Gate, California, the city named in the documents. The dot marks the city, not the plant's address.

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Asbestos claims

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What each document says

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United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma

  • Asbestos products made: “[name cut off] Finish Plaster 1944–1947; USG 1964–1976; Texolite 1961–1967; Pac-Tex 1943–1963; Imperial QT 1964–1976; "SHEETROCK" Texture 1964–1976; Textone 1944–1975; USG Textone 1928–1974; A-B TEX (no dates); Joint Compounds 1920s?–1976; Roofing Possible other dates.” (United States Gypsum Company), p. 401

United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (1986)

  • Asbestos products made: “Red Top Patching Plaster 1944–1947; USG 1964–1976; Texolite 1961–1967; Pac-Tex 1943–1963; Imperial QT 1964–1976; "SHEETROCK" Texture 1964–1976; Textone 1944–1975; USG Textone 1928–1974; A-B TEX (no dates); Roofing Possible other dates.” (United States Gypsum Company), p. 462

Other names

Documents call this plant “South Gate, CA”, “South Gate CA”.

See also

References

  1. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Master Interrogatories in the Northern District of Oklahoma (June 20, 1988), pp. 40, 42–44.
  2. United States Gypsum's Answers to Plaintiffs' Interrogatories in Dikun v. Armstrong World Industries (September 8, 1986), pp. 46, 49–51.
  3. Asbestos; Publication of Identifying Information (February 13, 1990), p. 19.
  4. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), pp. 3, 5, 8.

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