Premises Description

Ashland Inc. (founded 1924 as Ashland Refining Company; today Ashland Global Holdings, a specialty chemicals company headquartered Wilmington DE) operated through the 20th century through 1998 a major U.S. refining and petrochemical network. In 1998 Ashland combined its downstream refining operations with Marathon’s to form Marathon Ashland Petroleum (MAP), and in 2005 Ashland exited refining entirely — but Ashland’s asbestos-era refining and chemical operations produce ongoing premises-liability exposure.

Major Ashland asbestos-era U.S. refining and petrochemical sites included:

  • Catlettsburg Refinery (Catlettsburg KY) — Ashland flagship Ohio River refinery (today Marathon Petroleum)
  • St. Paul Park Refinery (St. Paul Park MN) — Upper Midwest refinery
  • Canton Refinery (Canton OH) — Ohio refinery
  • Buffalo Refinery (Buffalo NY) — Great Lakes refinery (closed 1981)
  • Neal WV — additional Ohio Valley operations
  • Ashland Chemical operations across the U.S. Southeast and Ohio Valley
  • Louisville KY — corporate operations

Each operated continuously through the asbestos era with extensive asbestos-containing refinery infrastructure.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Ashland Oil / Ashland Petroleum — as premises owner — exposed its refinery operator workforce and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

Ashland Inc. / Ashland Oil / Ashland Petroleum has been named as a Premises Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.

Workers Exposed

  • OCAW / USW refinery operators at Ashland refineries
  • Refinery pipefitters (UA Local members) working Ashland turnarounds
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on Ashland construction and turnaround crews
  • Refinery boilermakers (IBB Local members) at Ashland refineries
  • Construction-trade workforces on Ashland EPC projects

If You Worked at an Ashland Refinery or Petrochemical Plant

If you worked at an Ashland Oil, Ashland Petroleum, or Ashland Chemical refinery or petrochemical plant during the asbestos era — as an Ashland employee or as a dispatched contractor trade worker — and have since been diagnosed with mesothelioma, asbestosis, lung cancer, or another asbestos-related illness, you may have legal rights.

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