Premises Description

Inland Steel Corporation (founded 1893, headquartered Chicago IL; acquired by Ispat International — later Mittal/ArcelorMittal — in 1998; today operated as part of Cleveland-Cliffs) operated through the 20th century the Indiana Harbor Works in East Chicago Indiana — one of the largest and most modern U.S. integrated steel mills, sitting on Lake Michigan adjacent to the U.S. Steel Gary Works and predecessor International Harvester Wisconsin Steel operations.

Inland Steel was through most of the asbestos era a major U.S. flat-rolled steel producer for the automotive, appliance, and construction industries, with the Indiana Harbor Works operating blast furnaces, basic oxygen furnaces (BOF), continuous casters, and hot- and cold-strip mills continuously through the asbestos era.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Inland Steel — as premises owner of the Indiana Harbor Works — exposed its steelworker workforce (USW Local representation) and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos materials including blast-furnace refractory, pipe covering, fireproofing, and process gaskets.

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

Workers Exposed

  • United Steelworkers Local members at Indiana Harbor East Chicago IN
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working Inland mill capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) — particularly HFIAW Local 17 Chicago and adjacent locals dispatched to Indiana Harbor
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building Inland furnaces and pressure vessels
  • Construction-trade workforces on Inland mill capital projects

If You Worked at Inland Steel Indiana Harbor Works

If you worked at the Inland Steel Indiana Harbor Works during the asbestos era — as an Inland 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