Premises Description

Lukens Steel Company (founded 1810 by Rebecca Lukens as the Brandywine Iron Works; Lukens Steel from 1890; acquired by Bethlehem Steel 1998; today part of Cleveland-Cliffs as the Coatesville PA Plate Operations) was through the 19th and 20th centuries one of the oldest continuously operating U.S. integrated steel producers — historically specializing in steel plate, armor plate, and pressure-vessel steel at the Coatesville Pennsylvania mill in Chester County PA.

Lukens Coatesville was a significant defense and industrial supplier through the asbestos era — producing armor plate for U.S. Navy ships, boiler plate for U.S. power-plant and refinery construction, and specialty steel plate for pressure-vessel fabrication. The mill operated continuously through the asbestos era with extensive asbestos refractory in melt furnaces and reheat furnaces, asbestos pipe covering on plant steam and process piping, asbestos block insulation on boilers and heat exchangers, asbestos gaskets and packing at process flanges, and spray-applied asbestos fireproofing on plant structural steel.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Lukens Steel — as premises owner of the Coatesville PA mill — exposed its steelworker workforce (USW representation) and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

Lukens Steel Company 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 Lukens Coatesville PA
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working Lukens capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on Lukens construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building Lukens furnaces and pressure vessels
  • Construction-trade workforces on Lukens capital projects

If You Worked at Lukens Steel Coatesville PA

If you worked at the Lukens Steel Company Coatesville PA mill during the asbestos era — as a Lukens 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