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Did you work with IMCO Asbestos Drilling Mud Additives (IMCOLITE)? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. IMCO Asbestos Drilling Mud Additives (IMCOLITE), made by Imco Services, sold from around the 1950s until mid the 1980s. IMCO Services (later part of Halliburton's drilling-fluid business) sold chrysotile asbestos drilling-mud viscosifier additives as IMCOLITE and related products. Plaintiffs allege IMCO asbestos additives exposed rig hands to respirable fibers during handling and mud-pit mixing. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: chrysotile asbestos fiber as drilling-mud viscosifier. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Oilfield mud engineers, Drilling rig hands, and Oilfield laborers. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around IMCO Asbestos Drilling Mud Additives (IMCOLITE) and were later diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim against the manufacturer. This is educational information from an independent publisher — not a law firm — and is not legal advice.
Product Description
IMCO Services — historically headquartered in Houston, Texas and later absorbed into Halliburton’s drilling-fluids business — manufactured and sold through the asbestos era a line of drilling-mud asbestos viscosifier additives, including the IMCOLITE product line. IMCO was the third of the three principal U.S. oilfield asbestos suppliers (alongside Baroid and Magcobar) and shipped sacked dry chrysotile asbestos fiber for direct rig-floor addition to drilling-mud systems throughout the documented oilfield asbestos era.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that IMCO Services asbestos drilling-mud additives exposed rig hands, mud engineers, and oilfield laborers to substantial respirable chrysotile fiber concentrations and that the product line continued in U.S. oilfield distribution into the mid-1980s.
IMCO Services has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Oilfield mud engineers
- Drilling-rig hands
- Oilfield laborers and yard workers
- Oil-and-gas industry workers across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and offshore
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