Premises Description

Sharon Steel Corporation (founded 1900, headquartered Sharon Pennsylvania; bankrupt 1992; assets acquired piecemeal) and Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation (founded 1938 by merger of Allegheny Steel and Ludlum Steel; today Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI); headquartered Pittsburgh PA) were through the 20th century principal U.S. integrated and specialty steel producers concentrated in western Pennsylvania and the Ohio Valley industrial corridor.

Sharon Steel asbestos-era operations:

  • Sharon PA Works — flagship integrated mill on the Ohio-Pennsylvania border
  • Farrell PA Works — adjacent integrated operations
  • Lowellville OH — additional Ohio operations

Allegheny Ludlum asbestos-era operations:

  • Brackenridge PA Works — flagship specialty steels and stainless production
  • Vandergrift PA Works — specialty stainless and electrical steels
  • Bagdad PA Works — additional operations
  • Massillon OH Works — historic Massillon Steel operations
  • Lockport NY Works — specialty steel operations
  • Wallingford CT Works — historic Watervliet Connecticut operations

Specialty stainless and electrical-steel manufacturing (Allegheny Ludlum’s principal product line) was through the asbestos era one of the most asbestos-intensive steel-mill processes — heat-treat and annealing furnaces operating at extreme temperatures with extensive asbestos refractory, pipe covering on plant utility systems, and asbestos fireproofing on plant structural members.

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Sharon Steel and Allegheny Ludlum — as premises owners — exposed steelworker workforce (USW representation) and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

Sharon Steel and Allegheny Ludlum / ATI have been named as Premises Defendants in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.

Workers Exposed

  • United Steelworkers Local members at Sharon, Farrell, Brackenridge, Vandergrift, Massillon, Lockport, Wallingford
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working Sharon / Allegheny Ludlum capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on Sharon / Allegheny Ludlum construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building furnaces and pressure vessels
  • Construction-trade workforces on Sharon / Allegheny Ludlum mill capital projects

If You Worked at a Sharon Steel or Allegheny Ludlum Mill

If you worked at a Sharon Steel Corporation or Allegheny Ludlum Steel Corporation / ATI integrated or specialty mill 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