Premises Description

Anheuser-Busch Companies has been named as a premises defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation for alleged asbestos exposure at its St. Louis, Missouri headquarters brewery and its national network of breweries, malt houses, rice mills, and packaging plants.

The flagship Anheuser-Busch brewery complex on the south St. Louis riverfront — with its brewhouse towers, malt storage silos, rice unloading and cook systems, refrigerated lager cellars, bottling and canning halls, and central steam and refrigeration plants — is a heavy industrial site. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1980 construction and maintenance at Anheuser-Busch St. Louis and other AB plants involved asbestos across multiple systems:

  • Asbestos pipe covering on brewhouse steam headers, hot-liquor loops, wort transfer lines, and pasteurizer feed piping
  • Asbestos block, cork, and mag insulation on ammonia refrigeration compressors, chillers, brine lines, and lager cellar cold rooms
  • Asbestos sheet gaskets and rope packing at brew kettle, mash tun, lauter tun, wort chiller, fermenter, and bright-tank flanges and manways
  • Asbestos-containing refractory, boiler insulation, and gaskets at the powerhouse steam generators supplying the brewhouse and packaging lines
  • Asbestos-lined tunnel pasteurizers and bottle-wash and can-warmer ovens along the packaging lines
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on structural steel in newer brewhouse, packaging, and warehouse buildings
  • Asbestos electrical arc chutes, panel millboard, and cable insulation in brewery motor control centers

Anheuser-Busch is a direct O’Brien Law Firm venue defendant: the St. Louis MO brewery sits inside the City of St. Louis jurisdiction where OBLF regularly prosecutes premises-liability asbestos cases.

Workers Exposed

Plaintiffs allegedly worked at Anheuser-Busch St. Louis MO, Newark NJ, Houston TX, Los Angeles CA, Tampa FL, Jacksonville FL, Columbus OH, Fort Collins CO, Merrimack NH, Cartersville GA, Baldwinsville NY, and Williamsburg VA breweries — plus company malt houses and rice mills — in trades including:

  • Insulators (HFIAW) applying and removing asbestos pipe covering, block, cork, and cement on brewhouse and refrigeration piping
  • Pipefitters (UA) breaking asbestos-gasketed flanges on brew kettles, wort lines, and steam and ammonia headers
  • Boilermakers and boiler operators servicing asbestos-refractory-lined powerhouse boilers and economizers
  • Millwrights and brewery mechanics rebuilding pumps, agitators, filters, and centrifuges with asbestos packing
  • Refrigeration mechanics working on ammonia compressors, condensers, and cold-room panels with cork and asbestos insulation
  • Bottling- and canning-line maintenance workers on pasteurizers, warmers, and labelers with asbestos-lined ovens
  • Electricians pulling cable in fireproofed brewery halls and servicing asbestos-arc-chute switchgear
  • Sheet-metal workers fabricating brewhouse ductwork and cold-room panel assemblies

Union brewery-worker locals, HFIAW insulator locals (including Local 1 St. Louis), UA pipefitter locals, and IBEW electrical locals dispatched workers into A-B breweries throughout the asbestos era.

If You Worked at Anheuser-Busch

If you or a family member worked at the Anheuser-Busch St. Louis MO brewery or any Anheuser-Busch brewery, malt house, rice mill, or packaging plant before 1980 and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, or other asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim. Anheuser-Busch is a direct premises defendant in St. Louis MO venue, where O’Brien Law Firm regularly prosecutes brewery and food-plant asbestos cases.

Free, confidential case evaluation: Speak with O’Brien Law Firm — (314) 936-2956