Premises Description

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation (formed 1968 by merger of Wheeling Steel and Pittsburgh Steel; today the Wheeling Steel division of Esmark Inc. / Steel Dynamics) and Armco Steel Corporation (American Rolling Mill Company — founded 1900; later Armco Inc.; merged with Kawasaki Steel and operated as AK Steel 1999-2020; today Cleveland-Cliffs Steel) were through the 20th century principal U.S. integrated steel producers concentrated in the Ohio Valley.

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel asbestos-era operations:

  • Steubenville Works (Steubenville OH) — flagship integrated mill on the Ohio River
  • Mingo Junction Works (Mingo Junction OH)
  • Yorkville Works (Yorkville OH)
  • Allenport Works (Allenport PA)
  • Wheeling WV — historic Wheeling Steel operations

Armco Steel asbestos-era operations:

  • Middletown Works (Middletown OH) — Armco’s flagship integrated mill
  • Ashland Works (Ashland KY) — major Ohio River mill
  • Butler Works (Butler PA) — specialty stainless and electrical steels
  • Houston Works (Houston TX) — Armco’s Texas operation (closed 1984)
  • Coshocton OH — additional operations
  • Sand Springs OK — specialty operations

The Ohio Valley steel corridor — anchored by Wheeling-Pittsburgh, Armco, U.S. Steel’s Steubenville/Mingo operations, J&L/LTV’s Aliquippa/Pittsburgh works, Republic’s Youngstown operations — was through the asbestos era the most concentrated U.S. steel-mill workforce zone and a central premises-liability region for U.S. asbestos litigation.

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

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel and Armco Steel / AK Steel / Cleveland-Cliffs 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 Wheeling-Pittsburgh and Armco mills across the Ohio Valley
  • Refinery pipefitters and millwrights working W-P / Armco capital projects
  • Insulators (HFIAW Local members) on W-P / Armco construction and turnaround crews
  • Boilermakers (IBB Local members) building W-P / Armco furnaces
  • Construction-trade workforces on W-P / Armco mill capital projects

If You Worked at a Wheeling-Pittsburgh or Armco Steel Mill

If you worked at a Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel or Armco Steel integrated 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