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Did you work with Magcobar Asbestos Drilling Mud Additives (Magco-Fiber, Magcofiber)? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Magcobar Asbestos Drilling Mud Additives (Magco-Fiber, Magcofiber), made by Magcobar Dresser, sold from around the 1950s until mid the 1980s. Magcobar (a division of Dresser Industries, later Dresser-Magcobar) sold raw chrysotile asbestos drilling-mud viscosifier as Magco-Fiber and Magcofiber. Plaintiffs allege rig hands handling and mixing Magcobar dry asbestos fiber were directly exposed to respirable fibers. 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 Magcobar Asbestos Drilling Mud Additives (Magco-Fiber, Magcofiber) 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
Magcobar — historically a division of Dresser Industries and operated as Dresser-Magcobar — manufactured and sold through the 1950s into the mid-1980s a line of drilling-mud asbestos viscosifier additives under the trade names Magco-Fiber and Magcofiber. Magcobar was, along with Baroid and IMCO Services, one of the three principal U.S. suppliers of dry chrysotile asbestos fiber packaged for direct rig-floor addition to drilling mud systems.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Magcobar asbestos drilling-mud additives exposed rig hands, mud engineers, and oilfield laborers to substantial respirable chrysotile fiber concentrations during sack opening, mud-pit dispensing, and handling — and that Dresser Industries marketed and distributed these products through the documented era despite the well-known asbestos health hazard.
Magcobar / Dresser-Magcobar has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Oilfield mud engineers (mud mixers)
- Drilling-rig hands
- Oilfield laborers and yard workers
- Oil-and-gas industry workers nationally and offshore
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If you or a family member worked at Magcobar / Dresser-Magcobar and were exposed to asbestos-containing materials at this facility — and were diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related disease — you may have a legal claim. Time-sensitive filing deadlines apply.
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