Product Description
Benjamin Moore & Co. was allegedly one of the leading U.S. architectural-paint suppliers to painting contractors, drywall finishers, and residential and commercial repaint accounts. Plaintiffs have alleged in publicly filed U.S. asbestos personal-injury and wrongful-death litigation that Benjamin Moore’s textured / sand-finish wall and ceiling paint lines allegedly incorporated chrysotile asbestos fiber and/or asbestos-contaminated industrial talc as a texturing, body-building, and reinforcing additive that gave the paint its “trowel-and-roll” stipple, orange-peel, sand-tex, or knockdown finish over drywall, plaster, and skim-coat substrates.
According to publicly filed asbestos litigation records, asbestos-containing textured Benjamin Moore paint was allegedly sold in gallons and 5-gallon pails through Benjamin Moore paint stores, lumberyards, and drywall-supply distributors from roughly the 1950s through the 1978 federal-consumer-products asbestos restrictions.
Workers Exposed
- Painters rolling, spraying, and troweling textured wall and ceiling paint
- Drywall finishers coordinating skim coat, primer, and textured topcoat systems
- Remodelers and building-maintenance crews sanding aged textured finishes during repaint
- Demolition and renovation workers removing aged textured wall and ceiling coatings
- Homeowners and DIYers sanding textured walls — with take-home dust to family