Premises Description

Boise Cascade Company (founded 1957, headquartered Boise ID) operated through the second half of the 20th century one of the principal U.S. integrated forest-products, pulp, paper, and building-products companies. Boise Cascade operated through the asbestos era U.S. paper mills, pulp mills, and downstream operations including:

  • International Falls MN — major Great Lakes paper mill
  • Rumford ME — historic New England paper mill
  • DeRidder LA — Louisiana pulp and paper
  • Jackson AL — Alabama pulp and paper
  • Wallula WA — Pacific Northwest paper mill
  • St. Helens OR — Pacific Northwest operations
  • Salem OR — additional PNW
  • Vancouver WA — additional operations
  • Numerous lumber mills and building-products plants nationally

Each operated continuously through the asbestos era with the standard paper-mill asbestos infrastructure profile: pipe covering on plant steam mains, refractory on recovery boilers and lime kilns, block insulation on boilers and heat exchangers, gaskets and packing at process equipment, and asbestos dryer felts on paper-machine dryer-can sections.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Boise Cascade — as premises owner of its U.S. pulp and paper operations — exposed its pulp and paper workforce (USW / United Paperworkers representation) and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

Boise Cascade Company has been named as a Premises Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.

Workers Exposed

  • USW / United Paperworkers Local members at Boise Cascade paper mills
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working Boise Cascade capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on Boise Cascade construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building Boise Cascade plant equipment
  • Construction-trade workforces on Boise Cascade EPC projects

If You Worked at a Boise Cascade Paper Mill or Pulp Mill

If you worked at a Boise Cascade Company paper mill, pulp mill, or timber operation during the asbestos era — as a Boise Cascade 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