Premises Description

Dresser Industries, Inc. (founded 1880 in Bradford PA as S.R. Dresser & Company; acquired by Halliburton 1998; today distributed across GE Aviation, Baker Hughes, Chevron, and other successors) was through the 20th century one of the principal U.S. diversified industrial equipment and oilfield services conglomerates. Dresser operated through the asbestos era U.S. manufacturing plants including:

  • Bradford PA — historic Dresser origin (couplings and pipe fittings)
  • Dallas TX — corporate headquarters
  • Houston TX — Dresser Atlas oilfield services and multiple Dresser subsidiaries
  • Salem OH — Dresser Deming Pumps (separately covered on Crane Deming page — Deming was Crane, but Dresser had adjacent Salem OH pump operations)
  • Wellsville OH — Dresser refractory operations
  • Waukesha WI — Dresser Waukesha Engine (separately covered)
  • Painesville OH — Dresser Magcobar drilling-mud operations (separately covered)
  • Huntington Park CA — Pacific Pumps (separately covered)
  • Numerous refractory, industrial-equipment, and oilfield-service plants nationally

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Dresser Industries — as premises owner of its U.S. industrial and oilfield manufacturing operations — exposed its workforce and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

Dresser Industries / Halliburton has been named as a Premises Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation. Dresser’s asbestos liability is partially channeled through the DII Industries LLC Asbestos PI Trust established under Halliburton’s 2003 Chapter 11 pre-packaged plan.

Workers Exposed

  • Dresser plant workforce at Bradford, Houston, Wellsville, Waukesha, Painesville, Huntington Park
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working Dresser capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on Dresser construction and turnaround crews

If You Worked at a Dresser Industries Plant

If you worked at a Dresser Industries manufacturing plant during the asbestos era — as an 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 — including potentially a trust claim against the DII Industries Asbestos PI Trust.

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