Premises Description

E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company (founded 1802 — originally as a black-powder manufacturer near Wilmington, Delaware; today operated as multiple successor entities including DuPont de Nemours Inc., Chemours, Corteva, and others) was through the 20th century one of the largest and most diversified U.S. chemical and industrial manufacturers. DuPont operated major U.S. asbestos-era manufacturing complexes including:

  • Wilmington DE — corporate headquarters and the historic Chambers Works (Deepwater NJ)
  • Beaumont TX — Sabine River petrochemical and polymer operations
  • Belle WV — major specialty chemicals
  • Memphis TN — Memphis Plant chemicals
  • Old Hickory TN — synthetic fibers
  • Parkersburg WV — Washington Works fluoropolymers
  • Dozens of specialty plants across the Mid-Atlantic, Gulf Coast, and Midwest

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that DuPont — as premises owner of its U.S. chemical and industrial complexes — exposed contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers, as well as DuPont’s own operating and maintenance employees, to asbestos through pipe covering, refractory insulation, gaskets and packing, spray-applied fireproofing, and ceiling and partition board across plant utility systems and process units.

E.I. DuPont de Nemours has been named as a Premises Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.

Workers Exposed

  • Chemical-plant pipefitters and refinery pipefitters (UA Local members) at DuPont sites
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on DuPont construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building DuPont process units
  • DuPont’s own operating and maintenance workforce
  • Construction-trade workforces on DuPont EPC projects

If You Worked at a DuPont Complex

If you worked at an E.I. DuPont de Nemours chemical, explosives, plastics, or synthetic-fiber complex during the asbestos era — as a DuPont employee or as a dispatched contractor pipefitter, insulator, boilermaker, or 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