Premises Description

Weyerhaeuser Company (founded 1900 in Tacoma WA; today headquartered Seattle WA as a real estate investment trust operating timberlands and wood products) was through the 20th century one of the largest U.S. integrated forest-products, timber, pulp, and paper companies. Weyerhaeuser operated through the asbestos era U.S. paper mills, pulp mills, and downstream operations including:

  • Longview WA — Weyerhaeuser flagship Columbia River pulp and paper complex
  • Everett WA — historic paper mill (closed 2003)
  • Springfield OR — Willamette Valley pulp and paper (later part of Willamette Industries acquisition 2002)
  • Plymouth NC — Roanoke River pulp mill
  • Kingsport TN — pulp and paper (later Rayonier)
  • Cosmopolis WA, Mill City OR, Aberdeen WA — Pacific Northwest operations
  • Columbus MS, Bruce MS, DeQueen AR, Emerson AR — Southeast pulp and paper
  • International Falls MN, Rothschild WI — Upper Midwest operations
  • Numerous lumber mills and treated-wood plants nationally

Each operated continuously through the asbestos era with the standard paper-mill asbestos infrastructure profile: pipe covering on miles of plant steam mains and process piping, refractory insulation on recovery boilers and lime kilns, block insulation on boilers and heat exchangers, gaskets and packing at process equipment, and asbestos dryer felts on paper-machine dryer-can sections (separately addressed on the Asten-Johnson dryer felts page).

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Weyerhaeuser — as premises owner of its U.S. pulp and paper operations — exposed its pulp and paper workforce (USW / United Paperworkers representation) and contractor pipefitters, insulators, boilermakers, and trade workers to extensive asbestos.

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

Workers Exposed

  • USW / United Paperworkers Local members at Weyerhaeuser paper mills
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working Weyerhaeuser capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on Weyerhaeuser construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building Weyerhaeuser plant equipment
  • Construction-trade workforces on Weyerhaeuser EPC projects

If You Worked at a Weyerhaeuser Paper Mill or Pulp Mill

If you worked at a Weyerhaeuser Company paper mill, pulp mill, or timber operation during the asbestos era — as a Weyerhaeuser 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