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Did you work with UNARCO Asbestos Pipe Covering, Block Insulation, Marine Insulation? According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, it allegedly contained asbestos. Here is what it was, who was exposed, and who is responsible. UNARCO Asbestos Pipe Covering, Block Insulation, Marine Insulation, sold from around the 1920s until the 1970s. Union Asbestos and Rubber Company (UNARCO) was a major U.S. asbestos insulation manufacturer. UNARCO operated the Bloomington, IL plant that became one of the most contaminated occupational asbestos sites in U.S. history. Plaintiffs allege UNARCO pipe covering and block released amosite and chrysotile. According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, this product allegedly contained the following: amosite and chrysotile asbestos in pipe covering, block insulation, marine insulation. Workers allegedly exposed around this product included Insulators, Marine machinists, Refinery pipefitters, and Power-plant operators. Asbestos claims are brought against the companies that made the products. If you worked with or around UNARCO Asbestos Pipe Covering, Block Insulation, Marine Insulation 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
Union Asbestos & Rubber Company (UNARCO) was through the mid-20th century a major U.S. manufacturer of asbestos pipe covering, block insulation, and marine insulation sold to insulation contractors, marine and shipyard operators, refinery and power-plant builders, and industrial construction trades nationally. UNARCO is best known historically for operating the Bloomington, Illinois plant that became one of the most contaminated occupational asbestos sites in U.S. history, with documented community exposures extending well beyond the plant perimeter.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that UNARCO pipe covering and block insulation contained both amosite (brown asbestos) and chrysotile (white asbestos) through the documented production era. Insulators, marine machinists, pipefitters, and industrial trade workers who cut, fitted, installed, or removed UNARCO products inhaled airborne asbestos fibers as a foreseeable consequence of the product design.
UNARCO has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Insulators (HFIAW Local members)
- Marine machinists and shipyard trades
- Refinery and power-plant pipefitters
- Industrial construction trades
- Bloomington, IL plant workers and the broader Bloomington community