Premises Description

United States Steel Corporation (founded 1901 — at the time of formation the largest corporation in the world; today operating as U.S. Steel) operated through the 20th century the largest integrated U.S. steel-mill, coke-plant, iron-mine, and limestone-quarry network. U.S. Steel asbestos-era operations included:

  • Gary Works (Gary IN) — the world’s largest integrated steel mill at peak operation
  • Edgar Thomson Works (Braddock PA) — historic Pittsburgh-area mill
  • Homestead Works (Homestead PA) — closed 1986
  • Clairton Works (Clairton PA) — coke operations, still active
  • Fairless Works (Bucks County PA) — closed 2001
  • Fairfield Works (Birmingham AL) — closed/reduced
  • Granite City Works (Granite City IL) — historic St. Louis-region mill, today integrated into U.S. Steel
  • Geneva Works (Provo UT) — closed 2002
  • Iron ore mining on the Mesabi Range MN and limestone quarrying at Minnesota and Michigan operations

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that U.S. Steel — as premises owner of its integrated mill operations — exposed its steelworker workforce (United Steelworkers Local representation) and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos materials:

  • Asbestos refractory and block insulation on blast furnaces, coke ovens, open-hearth furnaces, basic oxygen furnaces, electric arc furnaces, and reheat furnaces
  • Asbestos pipe covering on mill steam mains, oxygen lines, and process piping
  • Spray-applied asbestos fireproofing on mill structural steel and crane runways
  • Asbestos gaskets and packing at process flanges, valves, and pumps
  • Asbestos brake linings on mill cranes and locomotives

U.S. Steel Corporation 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 Gary, Edgar Thomson, Homestead, Clairton, Fairless, Fairfield, Granite City, Geneva
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working U.S. Steel mill capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on U.S. Steel construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building U.S. Steel furnaces and pressure vessels
  • Construction-trade workforces on U.S. Steel mill capital projects

If You Worked at a U.S. Steel Mill

If you worked at a United States Steel Corporation integrated mill, coke plant, or mining operation during the asbestos era — as a U.S. Steel 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