Premises Description

Miller Brewing Company has been named as a premises defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation for alleged asbestos exposure at its Milwaukee, Wisconsin flagship brewery and other national brewing plants including Fort Worth TX, Albany GA, Eden NC, Trenton OH, Irwindale CA, and Milwaukee-area supporting facilities.

The Miller Milwaukee brewery — with its historic brick brewhouse, expansive packaging halls, refrigerated lager caves, and central utilities — was expanded and maintained across decades when asbestos was a standard insulation and gasket material. Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Miller brewery premises exposure came from:

  • Asbestos pipe covering on brewhouse steam headers, hot-liquor tanks, wort loops, and pasteurizer piping
  • Asbestos block and cork insulation on ammonia refrigeration compressors, condensers, and lager-cellar cold rooms
  • Asbestos sheet gaskets at brew kettle, mash tun, lauter tun, wort chiller, and fermenter flanges
  • Asbestos rope packing on brewery pumps, valves, and agitators
  • Asbestos refractory and boiler insulation at Miller powerhouse steam generators
  • Asbestos-lined tunnel pasteurizers, bottle warmers, and can-line ovens
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on structural steel in later-generation brewhouse and packaging expansions
  • Asbestos arc chutes and panel millboard in brewery motor-control switchgear

Workers Exposed

Plaintiffs allegedly worked at Miller Milwaukee WI, Fort Worth TX, Albany GA, Eden NC, Trenton OH, and Irwindale CA breweries in trades including:

  • Insulators (HFIAW) applying and removing asbestos pipe covering and block on brewhouse and refrigeration lines
  • Pipefitters (UA) breaking asbestos-gasketed flanges on kettles, wort lines, and ammonia headers
  • Boilermakers and boiler operators servicing asbestos-refractory-lined powerhouse boilers
  • Millwrights rebuilding pumps, filters, and centrifuges with asbestos packing
  • Refrigeration mechanics working on ammonia compressors and cork-insulated cold rooms
  • Bottling- and canning-line maintenance workers around asbestos-lined pasteurizers and warmers
  • Electricians and IBEW workers on fireproofed brewery halls and switchgear
  • Brewery workers dispatched into the brewhouse, cellars, and packaging halls during renovations and shutdowns

If You Worked at Miller Brewing

If you or a family member worked at Miller Brewing Company Milwaukee WI or any Miller national brewery before 1980 and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.

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