Premises Description

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc. (spun off 1996 from Martin Marietta Corporation as an independent industrial-materials company; today headquartered Raleigh NC) is one of the largest U.S. producers of construction aggregates, portland cement, magnesia specialties, and chemicals. Martin Marietta and predecessor Martin Marietta Corporation operated through the asbestos era U.S. plants including:

  • Manistee MI, Woodville OH, York PA, Tulsa OK — cement plants
  • Roberts NC, Weeping Water NE — cement plants (later acquisitions)
  • Manistee MI — magnesia specialties (magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxide refractory)
  • Numerous quarries and aggregate plants across the U.S. Southeast, Midwest, Mountain West, and Southwest

Each operated through the asbestos era with the standard heavy-industry asbestos infrastructure profile: refractory in kilns and calciners, pipe covering on plant steam and process piping, block insulation, gaskets and packing, and plant fireproofing.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Martin Marietta — as premises owner — exposed its cement, aggregate, and specialty workforce and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

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

Workers Exposed

  • Cement and aggregate plant workforce
  • Magnesia specialties plant workers
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on Martin Marietta construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) at Martin Marietta plants
  • Construction-trade workforces on Martin Marietta EPC projects

If You Worked at a Martin Marietta Cement, Aggregate, or Specialty Plant

If you worked at a Martin Marietta Materials cement, aggregate, magnesia specialties, or specialty chemical plant during the asbestos era — 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