Detrick (Combustion Engineering)

Detrick was a name on a line of insulating cements, blanket and rope made by R & I Refractory and Insulation Corporation, a subsidiary of Combustion Engineering, Inc.¹ In sworn answers filed in a lawsuit in March 1970, Combustion Engineering said R & I "began, on or about April 2, 1964, to manufacture" the Detrick-named materials.¹ An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, has two Detrick entries under Combustion Engineering: one for block and cement, with 1964 as its first year of manufacture, and one for cement with no dates.²

Combustion Engineering's 1970 answers describe each Detrick product.¹ Detrick Easy Seal Cement was an insulating cement "comprised of asbestos and clay," in 40 pound bags.¹ Detrick Bonding Cement was made of mineral wool, asbestos and clay, and Detrick Thinsuliner cement of clay, asbestos and Portland cement, both in 50 pound bags.¹ Detrick casing cement was "comprised of asbestos and Portland cement," and Detrick T-60 Insulating Finish of mineral wool, asbestos, Portland cement and clay.¹ Detrick No. 7 Asbestos Cement was a "straight asbestos fiber cement," packaged in 100-pound bags.¹ Detrick Asbestos Ropes came in two types, blue fiber rope and white fiber rope, both "comprised of long fiber amosite," in 100 foot coils 1/2 to 2 inches in diameter.¹ Detrick Blanket insulation, by contrast, was described as "spun mineral fibers felted in large flat sheets and encased between metal fabrics," of mineral wool and wire facings, with no asbestos named.¹

The same answers say that beginning in 1969 a warning was placed on the company's products containing asbestos, beginning "CAUTION: This product contains asbestos fibers."¹ It went on: "Excessive inhalation of asbestos may be harmful."¹

Related: Detrick MHD, Pyroscat.

Asbestos claims

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What each document says

Every statement about Detrick (Combustion Engineering) in the documents, in each document's own words.

Kind of product

We list Detrick (Combustion Engineering) with pipe covering and block insulation and insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe its form. Those pages explain how such products exposed workers.

Trades that worked with products like it: Insulators and Insulation Workers, Pipefitters and Plumbers, Boilermakers.

See also

• Combustion Engineering: the company's history, documents, people, products and plants
• Combustion Engineering on our products page: what the documents say about the company's asbestos products, with sources

References

1. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (March 30, 1970), pp. 1–3, 9.
2. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 4.