Company Overview

The United States Steel Corporation (U.S. Steel) was founded in 1901 by J.P. Morgan through the merger of Carnegie Steel, Federal Steel, and National Steel Company, becoming the world’s first billion-dollar corporation. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. Steel grew into the largest integrated steel producer in the United States and, for much of the 20th century, one of the dominant industrial employers across the Rust Belt and Southern steel corridors.

U.S. Steel’s core operating era for the plants named in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation runs from roughly 1901 through the early 1980s, spanning coke-making, blast-furnace ironmaking, basic oxygen and open-hearth steelmaking, continuous casting, hot- and cold-rolling, tin-plating, and coated-sheet finishing. Signature integrated works include Fairfield Works AL, Gary Works IN, Duluth Works MN, and the Pittsburgh-area giants Homestead, Braddock (Edgar Thomson), and Fairless.

These are heavy heat-and-refractory industrial premises. Plaintiffs allegedly encountered asbestos throughout coke ovens, blast furnaces, BOF and open-hearth shops, ladle and torpedo car areas, hot-strip mills, continuous casters, powerhouses, and rolling-mill drive rooms, according to publicly filed asbestos litigation records.

U.S. Steel is named as a premises defendant in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation for alleged asbestos exposure across its national integrated-steel network, including the Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania operations linked below.

Documented ACM Footprint

According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, U.S. Steel integrated plants allegedly involved asbestos-containing materials including:

  • Asbestos-bonded refractory brick and castable in blast furnace stoves, coke oven walls, BOF vessels, open-hearth roofs, and reheat furnaces
  • Asbestos gunning mix and monolithic refractory cement on coke oven doors, ladles, and tundishes
  • Asbestos pipe covering on powerhouse steam mains, blast-furnace bustle piping, and mill process lines
  • Asbestos block and calcium silicate insulation on hot-strip mill reheat furnaces, soaking pits, and annealing furnaces
  • Asbestos sheet gaskets and rope packing at ladle, pump, valve, and mill-drive flanges
  • Asbestos fabric expansion joints in reheat furnace and BOF hood ductwork
  • Asbestos millboard, arc chutes, and panel materials in plant switchgear and motor-control centers
  • Asbestos sprayed fireproofing on structural steel in multi-story mill buildings and powerhouses

Plants by State

U.S. Steel operated integrated works across multiple U.S. states. Detailed premises information is available on the following state jobsite pages:

If You Worked at a U.S. Steel Plant

If you or a family member worked at a U.S. Steel integrated plant — Fairfield Works AL, Gary Works IN, Duluth Works MN, Homestead, Braddock (Edgar Thomson), Fairless PA, or any other U.S. Steel facility — before the early 1980s and have been diagnosed with mesothelioma, lung cancer, asbestosis, or another asbestos-related disease, you may have a legal claim.

Free, confidential case evaluation: Speak with O’Brien Law Firm — (314) 936-2956