Premises Description

Coors Brewing Company 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 Golden, Colorado brewery complex — one of the largest single-site breweries in the world — and its adjacent Coors Container aluminum can plant, malt house, ceramics plant, and central utilities.

The Golden brewery is a heavy industrial site: brewhouse towers, mash and lauter halls, fermentation and lager cellars, packaging and bottling lines, a can-manufacturing plant, and a large central powerhouse. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that pre-1980 construction and maintenance across the Coors Golden complex involved asbestos through:

  • Asbestos pipe covering on brewhouse steam headers, hot-liquor loops, wort lines, and pasteurizer feed piping
  • Asbestos block and cork insulation on ammonia refrigeration compressors, chillers, and lager-cellar cold rooms
  • Asbestos gaskets at brew kettle, mash tun, lauter tun, wort chiller, and fermenter flanges and manways
  • Asbestos rope packing on brewery pumps, valves, and agitators
  • Asbestos refractory, boiler insulation, and gaskets at the Coors central powerhouse boilers
  • Asbestos-lined tunnel pasteurizers, bottle warmers, and can-warmer ovens on the packaging lines
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on structural steel in brewhouse, packaging, and can-plant expansions
  • Asbestos furnace lining, ladle insulation, and gaskets at the Coors Container aluminum can plant

Workers Exposed

Plaintiffs allegedly worked at Coors Golden CO brewery, Coors Container Golden CO aluminum can plant, Coors ceramics plant, and Coors packaging halls in trades including:

  • Insulators (HFIAW) applying and removing asbestos pipe covering, block, and cork on brewhouse and refrigeration piping
  • Pipefitters (UA) breaking asbestos-gasketed flanges on brew kettles, wort chillers, and ammonia headers
  • Boilermakers servicing asbestos-refractory-lined powerhouse boilers
  • Millwrights rebuilding brewery and can-line pumps, filters, and centrifuges with asbestos packing
  • Refrigeration mechanics working on ammonia compressors and cork-insulated lager caves
  • Can-plant workers around asbestos-lined furnaces, coil coaters, and can-warmer ovens
  • Bottling- and canning-line mechanics on asbestos-lined pasteurizer tunnels
  • Electricians and IBEW workers on fireproofed brewery halls and switchgear
  • Brewery workers dispatched into the brewhouse, cellars, and packaging halls during renovations and shutdowns

If You Worked at Coors

If you or a family member worked at the Coors Golden CO brewery complex, Coors Container, or Coors packaging plants before 1980 and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.

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