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Did you work with Oatey Asbestos Pipe Joint Compound, Pipe Dope, Pipe-Joint Sealants? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Oatey Asbestos Pipe Joint Compound, Pipe Dope, Pipe-Joint Sealants, sold from around the 1950s until the 1980s. Oatey Company manufactured a major U.S. line of asbestos pipe joint compound, pipe dope, and plumbing thread sealants. Plaintiffs allege Oatey products released chrysotile asbestos during plumbing assembly, pipe-joint maintenance, and rework. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: chrysotile asbestos fiber in pipe joint compound (pipe dope) and thread sealants. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Plumbers, Pipefitters, Apartment maintenance workers, and Building maintenance. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Oatey Asbestos Pipe Joint Compound, Pipe Dope, Pipe-Joint Sealants 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
Oatey Company (Cleveland, Ohio) manufactured through the asbestos era a major U.S. line of asbestos-loaded pipe joint compound (pipe dope) and plumbing thread sealants sold nationally through plumbing wholesalers, hardware stores, and home centers. Oatey-brand pipe joint compounds were standard inventory in the plumbing trade for sealing threaded steel and brass pipe connections and were specified by plumbers in residential, apartment, commercial, and industrial construction through the documented asbestos era.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Oatey Company pipe joint compounds, pipe dopes, and thread sealants contained chrysotile asbestos throughout the documented production era and that plumbers and apartment-maintenance workers who hand-applied Oatey products, who scraped dried compound during repair work, and who reworked threaded joints released respirable asbestos fibers as a routine part of the plumbing trade.
Oatey Company has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Plumbers (UA Local members)
- Pipefitters
- Apartment and building maintenance workers
- Sprinkler fitters
- HVAC piping technicians
- Refinery and industrial pipefitters