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Insulseal (Eagle-Picher)

Insulseal was an Eagle-Picher weatherproof coating, which the company's sworn answers in three lawsuits, given from 1968 to 1970, describe as "A tough, black, fireretardent, protective coating for insulation composed of asbestos, clay and other additives in an asphalt base."1,2,3,4 The answers list its composition as asphalt, asbestos, bentonite clay and water; the 1968 answers add carbon black.1,2,3

The answers differ on when it was first made: the 1968 answers say "Pre-1950," and the 1969 and 1970 answers say "Pre-1940."1,2,3 The 1969 and 1970 answers say Eagle-Picher packaged Insulseal under its own name and sold it to contractors, to its distributors and to certain large users, and also packaged such products for private accounts.2,3

An insurance company's 1981 list of asbestos products, compiled from other companies' answers in lawsuits, gives Insulseal as made from 1938 to 1969, and gives 6 in the column read as percent asbestos.4 Its note column reads "PHILIP CAREY/EP:1969-74," which the list does not explain.4

Related: Super 66.

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What each document says

Every statement about Insulseal (Eagle-Picher) in the documents, in each document's own words.

The Tomplait v. Combustion Engineering Case File (1962-1969), Response to plaintiff's interrogatories

  • Made from: “Date First Manufactured: Pre-1950”, p. 31
  • Description: “A tough, black, fireretardent, protective coating for insulation composed of asbestos, clay and other additives in an asphalt base.”, p. 31
  • Ingredient: “Composition: Asphalt, Asbestos, Bentonite Clay, Water, Carbon Black”, p. 31

The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories

  • Made from: “Pre-1940 (date first manufactured)”, p. 32
  • Description: “A tough, black fireretardent, protective coating for insulation composed of asbestos, clay and other additives in an asphalt base.”, p. 32
  • Ingredient: “Asphalt Asbestos Bentonite Clay Water”, p. 32
  • Use: “sold to contractors, distributors and certain large ultimate users; also packaged for private accounts”, p. 52

The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories

  • Made from: “Pre-1940”, p. 33
  • Sold until: “its weatherproof, Insulseal ... sells them to contractors, its distributors and to certain large ultimate users”, p. 53
  • Description: “A tough, black fire retardent, protective coating for insulation composed of asbestos, clay and other additives in an asphalt base.”, p. 33
  • Asbestos content: “Composition: Asphalt, Asbestos, Bentonite Clay, Water”, p. 33

The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981)

  • Made from: “38”, p. 64
  • Form: “COATING”, p. 64
  • Asbestos content: “6”, p. 64
  • Made until: “69”, p. 64
  • Description: “PHILIP CAREY/EP:1969-74”, p. 64

Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981

  • Made from: “38”, p. 215
  • Made until: “74”, p. 215
  • Asbestos content: “6”, p. 215
  • Description: “PHILIP CAREY/EP:1969-74”, p. 215
  • Form: “COATING”, p. 215

Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (1962)

  • Description: “ASPHALT EMULSION (Fibrated)”, p. 1266
  • Asbestos content: “Asphalt base clay emulsion and asbestos fibers. Filler content is varied to get desired temperature limits.”, p. 1266
  • Form: “Weather Barrier Coating”, p. 1266
  • Temperature limit: “-20 to 450”, p. 1266

Kind of product

We list Insulseal (Eagle-Picher) with insulating cement and coatings, from how the documents describe its form. That page explains how such products exposed workers.

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

Other insulating cement and coatings by Eagle-Picher (21)

Super 66 · 43 · Hylo · 20 · Fireproofing · 66 · 7M · 99 · 99 Finishing Cement · Armor Temp · Asphalt Emulsion, Chemical Dispersion Type · Hi-stick · Insulstic · One Cote Cement · One-cote · Spray-mastic · Stalastic · Stamastic · Swetcheck · 106 · and 1 more on the company's page

Insulating cement and coatings by other makers (303)

Thermobestos · Superex (Johns-Manville) · Asbestile (Johns-Manville) · 85 Magnesia (Johns-Manville) · Prasco (Fibreboard) · Hy Temp (Keasbey & Mattison) · Insul Mastic (Pure Asphalt) · Insul-finish (General Refractories) · Insulation Seal (Celotex) · Insulkote ET (Johns-Manville) · Insulkote ST (Johns-Manville) · Insulmastic (Armstrong Cork) · Johns-Manville Jm (Johns-Manville) · K & M (Nicolet) · Kaiser (Combustion Engineering) · Karnak 200 (Karnak Chemical) · Karnak 925 (Karnak Chemical) · Kaytherm (Nicolet) · Laptite (Johns-Manville) · Laptite Cement (Johns-Manville) · and 283 more: all insulating cement and coatings

See also

References

  1. The Tomplait v. Combustion Engineering Case File (1962-1969), Response to plaintiff's interrogatories (February 15, 1968), p. 3.
  2. The Potter v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to plaintiff's interrogatories (December 26, 1969), pp. 3, 5.
  3. The Borel v. Fibreboard Case File (1969-1972), Answers to interrogatories (April 1, 1970), pp. 3, 5.
  4. The Travelers Insurance Company's Product Information Booklet for Its Asbestos Seminar (1980–1981) (April 30, 1981), p. 6.
  5. Travelers Asbestos Products Printout, July 1981 (July 1, 1981), p. 21.
  6. Union Carbide Chemicals Company: Thermal Insulation and Accessories Manual (October 1, 1962), p. 126.

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