Product Description
Union Asbestos & Rubber Company (UNARCO) was through the mid-20th century a major U.S. manufacturer of asbestos pipe covering, block insulation, and marine insulation sold to insulation contractors, marine and shipyard operators, refinery and power-plant builders, and industrial construction trades nationally. UNARCO is best known historically for operating the Bloomington, Illinois plant that became one of the most contaminated occupational asbestos sites in U.S. history, with documented community exposures extending well beyond the plant perimeter.
Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that UNARCO pipe covering and block insulation contained both amosite (brown asbestos) and chrysotile (white asbestos) through the documented production era. Insulators, marine machinists, pipefitters, and industrial trade workers who cut, fitted, installed, or removed UNARCO products inhaled airborne asbestos fibers as a foreseeable consequence of the product design.
UNARCO has been named as a Manufacturer Defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation.
Workers Exposed
- Insulators (HFIAW Local members)
- Marine machinists and shipyard trades
- Refinery and power-plant pipefitters
- Industrial construction trades
- Bloomington, IL plant workers and the broader Bloomington community
If You Worked With UNARCO Asbestos Insulation
If you cut, installed, repaired, or removed UNARCO asbestos pipe covering or block insulation during the asbestos era — 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