Premises Description

General Dynamics Corporation (founded 1952 by merger of Electric Boat and Canadair; today headquartered Reston VA) is one of the largest U.S. defense contractors. GD’s shipbuilding operations (Electric Boat Groton CT, NASSCO San Diego CA, Bath Iron Works Bath ME) are covered on dedicated pages. This page addresses GD’s non-shipyard defense-manufacturing operations, which operated through the asbestos era at:

  • Fort Worth TX — General Dynamics Aerospace (F-16 production, sold to Lockheed 1993)
  • Sterling Heights MI — General Dynamics Land Systems (M1 Abrams main battle tank, Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant)
  • Lima OH — Joint Systems Manufacturing Center (M1 Abrams and M60 tank production, GD-operated)
  • Scranton PA — Scranton Army Ammunition Plant (GD-operated munitions)
  • Woodbridge VA / Reston VA — GD corporate and information systems
  • Quincy MA — General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding (closed 1986 as shipyard, later commercial redevelopment)
  • San Jose CA — General Dynamics Space Systems (Convair Astronautics legacy)

Each operated through the asbestos era with extensive asbestos-containing plant infrastructure.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that General Dynamics — as premises owner — exposed its defense manufacturing workforce and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

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

Workers Exposed

  • IAM / UAW / defense manufacturing union members at GD plants
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working GD capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on GD construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) at GD plants
  • Construction-trade workforces on GD EPC projects

If You Worked at a General Dynamics Defense Manufacturing Plant

If you worked at a General Dynamics Corporation defense manufacturing plant during the asbestos era — at Fort Worth TX, Sterling Heights MI, Lima OH, Scranton PA, Quincy MA, or any other GD site — 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.

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