Product Description

Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc. (Aurora, Illinois — later subsidiary of Owens-Corning Fiberglas through its installation-contractor network) was through most of the 20th century one of the largest U.S. asbestos insulation contractors and distributors, with operations across the Midwest, Plains, and Southeast. Forty-Eight Insulations supplied and installed asbestos pipe covering, block insulation, asbestos cement, and marine and refinery insulation at refineries, fossil and nuclear power plants, paper mills, chemical plants, steel mills, and industrial construction sites through the documented asbestos era.

Forty-Eight Insulations is among the most heavily-litigated U.S. asbestos installation contractors and was a named defendant in many of the foundational asbestos personal-injury cases of the 1970s and 1980s. The company entered Chapter 11 reorganization in 1985 and emerged through asbestos-trust mechanisms.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Forty-Eight Insulations supplied and installed asbestos-containing pipe covering and block manufactured by Johns-Manville, Owens-Corning Fiberglas, Pittsburgh Corning, Eagle-Picher, and other principal asbestos insulation manufacturers — and that Forty-Eight exposed its own insulator workforce, HFIAW journeymen dispatched to its projects, and the broader industrial trade workforce on its job sites to respirable asbestos fibers during installation, repair, and removal scopes.

Forty-Eight Insulations has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant, Distributor Defendant, and Installer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.

Workers Exposed

  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) dispatched to Forty-Eight Insulations projects
  • Refinery and power-plant pipefitters working alongside Forty-Eight crews
  • Industrial-construction trade workforces on Forty-Eight Insulations EPC scopes
  • Marine machinists at Great Lakes and Mid-Continent shipyards

If You Worked Around Forty-Eight Insulations Asbestos Work

If you worked at a refinery, power plant, paper mill, chemical plant, or industrial site where Forty-Eight Insulations installed, repaired, or removed asbestos insulation during the asbestos era — 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