Premises Description

FMC Corporation (originally Food Machinery Corporation, founded 1883; today headquartered Philadelphia PA as an agricultural sciences and specialty chemicals company) operated through the 20th century a diversified U.S. industrial network including food-processing machinery, defense equipment, specialty chemicals, agricultural chemicals, phosphate mining and processing, and allyl-plastics chemistry. This premises page addresses FMC’s U.S. chemical-plant operations, separate from:

  • FMC Corporation as an allyl-plastics (CR-39 / DAP) supplier (covered on the Mesa Plastics allyl page)
  • FMC as a pump manufacturer (FMC Peerless Pumps, John Bean pumps — separately covered)

Major FMC chemical-plant asbestos-era U.S. sites included:

  • Nitro WV — historic FMC (formerly Rubber Reserve / Monsanto) chemical operations
  • Pocatello ID — FMC phosphorus plant (closed 2001)
  • Green River WY — trona / soda ash operations
  • Baltimore MD — specialty chemicals
  • Middleport NY — agricultural chemicals
  • Charleston SC, Lawrence KS, Hopewell VA — additional operations

Each operated continuously through the asbestos era with the standard chemical-plant asbestos infrastructure profile: pipe covering on plant steam and process piping, refractory and block insulation on process equipment, gaskets and packing at process flanges and pumps, electrical insulation on plant motor and switchgear systems, and (for phosphorus and phosphate operations) refractory insulation on electric furnaces and processing equipment.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that FMC Corporation — as premises owner of its U.S. chemical and specialty plants — exposed its chemical workforce and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

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

Workers Exposed

  • USW / OCAW chemical workers at FMC plants
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working FMC capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on FMC construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building FMC plant equipment
  • Construction-trade workforces on FMC EPC projects

If You Worked at an FMC Corporation Plant

If you worked at an FMC Corporation chemical, phosphate, or specialty plant during the asbestos era — as an FMC 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