Product Description

According to publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation records, A.P. Green Industries, Inc. (Mexico, Missouri) allegedly supplied asbestos-containing ladle mud, gunning mix, nozzle cement, and monolithic refractory products used to line and patch teeming ladles, transfer ladles, and BOF tap holes at integrated steel mills. Plaintiffs allegedly identified A.P. Green product shipments as a source of occupational asbestos exposure in teeming pits and ladle-repair bays.

Litigation records allegedly describe asbestos fiber used as reinforcement and thermal-shock resistance in ladle-repair formulations, released as respirable dust when workers opened bags, hand-mixed powder with water, patched hot ladle linings with trowels, gunned the material through pneumatic equipment, and chipped spent refractory during full ladle relines.

Workers Exposed

Plaintiffs alleged in publicly filed litigation that the following workers encountered A.P. Green Industries asbestos-refractory products:

  • Steel mill bricklayers, refractory masons, and ladle-repair crews
  • Ladlemen, teemers, and pit workers exposed during and after ladle patching
  • BOF furnacemen and tap-hole maintenance workers
  • Millwrights and mechanical maintenance workers on shutdown crews