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Did you work with Sherwin-Williams Industrial Coatings, Paints, Specialty Finishes, Asbestos-Loaded Industrial Paint Grades? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. Sherwin-Williams Industrial Coatings, Paints, Specialty Finishes, Asbestos-Loaded Industrial Paint Grades, sold from 1866 until present (asbestos era through the 1980s). Sherwin-Williams was through the asbestos era one of the largest U.S. manufacturers of industrial coatings, paints, and specialty finishes. Plaintiffs allege certain Sherwin-Williams industrial coating grades were specified with asbestos fiber reinforcement for fire, chemical, and thermal protection applications. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: asbestos fiber in some industrial-grade paint, primer, and specialty coating formulations. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Painters, Industrial coating applicators, Construction workers, and Marine workers. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around Sherwin-Williams Industrial Coatings, Paints, Specialty Finishes, Asbestos-Loaded Industrial Paint Grades 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
The Sherwin-Williams Company (founded 1866, headquartered Cleveland OH) is through the 20th century and today the largest U.S. paint and coatings manufacturer. Sherwin-Williams manufactured through the asbestos era industrial coatings, marine coatings, protective coatings, primers, and specialty finish products sold to industrial, marine, refinery, power-plant, and construction markets.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that certain Sherwin-Williams industrial-grade coatings, primers, and specialty finishes — particularly formulations specified for fire-protection, chemical-resistance, thermal-insulation, and marine service — contained asbestos fiber reinforcement through the documented production era and that painters, industrial-coating applicators, construction workers, and marine workers who applied, sanded, or removed asbestos-loaded Sherwin-Williams products were exposed to airborne asbestos fibers.
The Sherwin-Williams Company has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Painters (IUPAT Local members) applying industrial Sherwin-Williams coatings
- Industrial coating applicators at refineries, power plants, marine facilities
- Construction workers applying and removing Sherwin-Williams industrial coatings
- Marine workers applying Sherwin-Williams marine coatings