United States Gypsum Company plant at Southard, Oklahoma

United States Gypsum Company's plant at Southard, Oklahoma, is known here from the company's own sworn answers in two lawsuits, one in 1986 and one in the Northern District of Oklahoma in 1988, which list the asbestos-containing products made there and the years for each.^1,2 The earliest is a finish plaster under USG's Red Top name, Red Top Cover Coat, made at Southard from 1942 to 1954.¹ The 1986 answers add Red Top Wood Fiber Plaster - Regular, a basecoat, from 1945 to 1967; in the 1988 answers the names of these two products are cut off on the page, but the types and years are the same.^1,2

Both sets of answers also list a Structo-Lite basecoat, "Red Top Structo-Lite Gypsum Plaster for Machine Application," at Southard from 1955 to 1962.^1,2 USG gave longer spans for some of these products company-wide, Red Top Wood Fiber Plaster - Regular to 1972 and the Structo-Lite plaster from 1955 to 1972; the Southard years are the ones above.¹

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

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.

• Red Top (U.S. Gypsum) · 1942–1967¹
• 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.

See also

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

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.